My family celebrated my dad's 21st sobriety anniversary this Thursday so I, of course, offered to make a cake! Being the simple guy he is, my dad chose a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream (I used the recipes from VCTOTW) but that was fine with me since I got to decorate it. I posted this thread on the PPK boards to help me think of decorating ideas and got some great advice. While I would have loved to make a wagon-shaped cake or one looking like a stack of AA chips, I really wanted to make a rectangular cake for some reason and I was a little crunched for time, so I went with a basic design and wrote "Yay! Good Job, Daddy!" (using Alton brown's recipe for writing chocolate) on it. I was pretty happy the cake turned out and, even though the writing was crooked and the I cut the layers were unevenly, it was great practice for me. Not to mention, it tasted great and my dad was so thankful for it. Just doing my job as a daughter to make him happy :)This week, BitterSweet posted her vegan version of the Omnivore's Hundred on her blog so I took on the challenge and will pass it on to you. Here are the rules:
1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten. (I will only bold items that I've eaten the vegan versions of)
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. (I'm just going to put them in italics since the crossing out font thing is not working right....)
4) Post a comment here once you’ve finished and link your post back to this one.
5) Pass it on!
1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Haggis
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegemite
9. Borscht
10. Baba Ghanoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo Gobi
15. Taco from a street cart
16. Boba Tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (all alcohol items will be in italics since I plan on never drinking)
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Ceviche
24. Rice and beans
25. Kniche
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de Leche
28. Caviar
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka Jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries
41. Raw brownies
42. Fresh Garnazo Beans
43. Dahl
44. Homemade Soymilk
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwaffle
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. Piña colada
58. Birch Beer
59. Scrapple
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy Curls
63. Chickpea Cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade Sausages
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped Cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese”
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh Ball Soup
90. White Chocolate
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi
93. Butterscotch Chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with Chocolate
96. Bagel and Tofutti
97. Potato Milk
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Raw cookie dough
Now it's your turn!
8 comments:
Aw, that cake is so wonderful, both for the message and the decoration!
Thanks for playing along with the Vegan's Hundred as well, it's awesome to see how quickly this caught on. :)
Congratulations to your dad!! That's wonderful!!
Haha, fun list :0)
Congrats to your dad! And he's lucky to have such a sweet daughter to make such a beautiful cake for him. I'm really impressed at the job you did with the blue icing, since I find piping to be super-difficult.
I was very touched by your post. My husband had been sober for 17 years at the time of his death and it was something we thanked our higher power for every single day. He maintained his sobriety through AA. Congrats to your father and to you for making the decision not to drink. I rarely drink (maybe twice a year) and have found that I do not miss it in the slightest!
Kudos to your dad for being sober. We have bene lucky in this household that we know our limits. I can months and not drink one drop and never miss it, then have 3 cocktails in a week. I have always been that way. My children have seen that we are in control, not thee alcohol.
Great cake, my daughter is a chocolate freak, so she would dive in head first. Me, I am more a yellow cake person, but getting to the point where I no longer enjoy all that store made sweets. Your looks homemade and delicious...my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. I forgive you.
Nice blog!
awww! yay! that's so awesome of you to make him such an awesome cake! what a wonderful thing to celebrate, too! congrats! :D
Colorful and nice!
posted the list on my blog now too!
congrats to your Dad-
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