Dinner with my folks, plus Thor, Sarena, and Kevin. My mom made a lovely Thanksgiving day trial meal, with roasted chicken instead of turkey. Plus ample mashed potatoes and gravy. We brought an apple cake with brown sugar icing (from the King Arthur flour website). I thought the cake was a little too crumbly, and that the frosting was the best part. I wonder why some cakes are so soft like that? Was it the apples? It wasn't dry, at least. I bet that frosting would be good on any number of cakes, although it is really more of a glaze.
What we didn't bring were pralines, which were a failure. I tried a Paula Deen recipe (since her corn fritters worked so well), and it may have been me not cooking the syrup quite long enough, but they never firmed up. They are now destined to be an ice cream topping. Oh well.
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