Sticky Coconut Cake and a Spaghetti Picnic
Sorry, I’ll fess up right off the bat that I don’t have an actual recipe for this one. But I’ll tell you where you can pick some up – for $1.90. That’s right. They’re a little smaller than a standard 8″x4″ loaf – about the size of two large muffins. A steal for under two dollars. I imagine the leftovers will make some mighty fine French toast in the morning.
We went park hopping today. I had both boys and sorely needed to be exposed to actual sunlight. What we typically do when packing impromptu picnics is not make sandwiches or coleslaw or potato salad, but walk through the kitchen with our picnic bag (made of a recycled nylon rice bag) and toss whatever we find that’s transportable into it. After I had tucked in apples, cheese buns, water and pink popcorn (made for an upcoming Easter story) I noticed W had been helping, by adding a ziploc baggie of spaghetti. Which is, of course, ideal picnic fare, is it not?
It turned out to be, as both devoured it by hand at the picnic table after an hour or so of running and climbing, downing each piece with their heads tilted back, like baby birds feeding themselves worms.
After three parks and much tree climbing and stick collecting came the sudden realization that we hadn’t in fact packed enough for all of us (and Mike and I weren’t in the mood for pasta) so we detoured to Logos Cakehouse, which is immediately inside the back door of that red brick Asian mall on the corner of Centre St and 16th Avenue in the north. You park in the back (there’s a lot) and walk in, grab a tray and some tongs, and choose from rows of plexiglass display boxes filled with all things doughy – sweets like sugar donuts, jelly rolls and pineapple buns and savouries like green onion buns and buns topped with dried pork; along the side, ovens are stacked with warm savouries like pork buns, curried chicken buns and round, glossy buns with thin hot dogs poking out each end (which the boys adore) to which you help yourself. An ideal destination if you happen to be running a marathon and need to carb load. All but the coconut cake were $1.10.
This box – and it’s a full-sized cake box – came to $8.50.
We bought two of the aforementioned hot dog buns, two pork-filled buns, a garlic, ham & cheese bun (below), raisin twist and coconut cake. We didn’t eat it all.
And then I went to Seedy Saturday and attempted to absorb some of the gardening knowledge in the room through osmosis – I feel more Urban Homesteader-ish by virtue of having spent three hours there, helping to man the Slow Food booth. I came home with seeds and tomato plants and got all jazzed about my garden again, as if I might actually not kill most of it this year. It’s important to have achievable goals.
My cold had me pummelled by the time that was packed up and done, and I spent the rest of the evening in bed (!) playing with W and watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. WHY is it the moms always die in kids’ movies?
March 20 2010 | leftovers | 14 Comments »
