Every Parade Needs One Of These

You know you are jealous of the man in a duck suit on a segway that was featured in our cute little town’s memorial day parade. There was also a lion, but he was on foot and therefore not at all exciting.

Today has been rather lovely. A touch on the humid side, but still nice. Probably because I had lots of playing to do in the kitchen, which I often enjoy. We (mostly me, but Jake helped with the caramel stirring that took forever) made a caramel slice for us to take to dinner tomorrow. The base worked perfectly. The caramel took forever to get caramelly and then I gave up and just ended up blotting the butter that was pooling as it cooled. However… it needed a chocolatey drizzle on top. And this is where we had massive amounts of issues. Both our semi-sweet and white chocolates seized up like stupid blobs of stupid. Humidity – it is evil. The semi-sweet chocolate we added some water to and it is now a chocolate sauce that we can use for something. The white chocolate, I squished that into a VERY well-lubed dinosaur container. Stupid thing still got stuck though, so now I have a broken dinosaur to eat. Pretty tasty.

I also made yummy curry turkey burgers with lots of spinach in them. Mmm…

I loved watching this little patriotic cutie. It was skipping all the way. Totally looked like a living My Little Pony.