This weekend was Sky's 12th birthday which means I have one more year until I have a teenager. Lucky for mr, he's a "he" so I could care less if he's getting lucky in middle school, I'm too busy with only four years left to find a nice strict catholic school to lock Piper up in when she turns twelve. Sure I have standards, they are called "double standards" and they're all mine!
Funny thing this year, my little sophisticate asked for Pineapple Upside Down Cake from his Dad. Hubby made this cake for Sky's 5th birthday when we lived in Martha's Vineyard when he was pretty much a stay-at-home Dad. Both kids were under 5 and frankly I was bringing home enough bacon for all of us at the time designing a short-lived iteration of reuters.com for nearly two years.
I'm sure I said something like "WTF Scott? A Pineapple Upside Down Cake? The kid wants a crap cake from the market, with a truck on it or something!" Apparently that was the day Scott realized he had to go back to work (or so the story goes because some gal with an NPR radio show wrote a story about it and made Scott sound a little pathetic, but nonetheless famous for 15 seconds.) The punch line is that Sky actually asked Scott for the cake this year without knowing the back story and Scott went ape-shit wondering where our original Joy of Cooking went because we haven't seen it in a while.
If you don't know this already, the 1975 Joy of Cooking is much better than new one. For instance where else am I going to find a recipe for beef tongue or calf brain fritters? The new JOC takes out all the fun, namely butter, lard, and raw eggs so get the previous edition and ditch the other.
Scott finally found the damn book and in his excitement decided to make old-fashioned donuts in the middle of the night. He and I tested maybe 14 donuts each that night and our stomachs suffered to say the least.
Honestly the Pineapple Upside Down Cake wasn't his best but no one would tell Scott to his face, we'll just let him read it here (it's much less confrontational that way.) He's a professional baker and insulting his food is lateral to punching him in the face. So lets turn this around and mention that when Scott does make a Pineapple Upside Down Cake, 9 out of 10 times it's so good you'll think you're living in an episode of Mad Men and 50's cuisine is edible again!