Happy Valentine's Day

 

 

Carrot Date Cake

Let's talk calories! Chopped dates, walnuts, crushed pineapple, carrots, 2 cups of sugar, full cup of oil, 4 eggs, topped with butter and cream cheese frosting. 

What's not to like? A moist and dense cake, like regular carrot cake on steroids. John is crazy about dates and eats them everyday. This recipe came from a cookbook we bought last visit to the Shield's Dates store in Indio.

Most of the cookie and cakes look good, although some of the "miscellaneous" recipes are pretty weird, like something called "Stuffed Desert Fish Date" which involves 2 pounds of white fish. I'll spare you the details at this early hour.

So we woke up to a dusting of snow on Valentine's Day. It won't last but enough to mess up traffic with temps below freezing. We're not going far. This being one of the worst days of the year for eating in restaurants, maybe I'll make panang curry with shrimp. Something spicy on a cold night. Have a sweet day.