Abbondanza!

Spaghetti Cupcakes for Paul's Birthday

Mmmm- not getting cat hair on the cupcakes or licking them tastes gooooood!

These cupcakes were pretty easy- the hardest part was looking for the Chianti bottle for a prop and picking the best picture!

It was fun to squirt the pasta all over the cupcakes and sing a little song I probably learned from Sesame Street- "La- la -la -la -la la."

The book said to put in half a teaspoon of cocoa powder to the frosting and four drops of yellow food coloring. I think this made it way too "greige", the color for 2010 according to Joan Rivers. I ended up putting in about ten drops of yellow and some more frosting.

39 more recipes to go in 340 days!

Events coming up are going to require quite a bit of searching for the special candy ingedients and recipes for things like vegan cupcakes- so I will be busy running all over town trying to find candy stores that let Buster come in and shop with me! We like Z Cioccolato on Columbus. I also found some pastel marshmallows, after dreaming about them (you don't wanna know), at Safeway, but they are in the shape of bunnnies. I'll just have to cut them up with clean, sharp scissors.

We discovered that Buster is probably Bichon and Poodle- a bichonoodle! Now we can go to poodle mix meet-ups!

Abbondanza is Italian for Bon Appetit (more or less).

Kiss an Italian today! Hey, nice cupcakes!

Buster dragged me off in the Prius to the beach so we could ruminate about how much we hate Ben Stiller. It was Mr. Bigglesworth's 2nd birthday, and all the doodles and labradoodles and goldendoodles and bichonoodles were running around grinning from ear to ear. Ah, joy!

Who could concentrate on how much they hate Ben Stiller at the beach?

And, there's not a whole lot to do with cupcakes at the beach, except there is a giant all-white Bulldog that Buster always tries to dig holes with named Cupcake.

Last night we had Trixie, a ten year old tiny miniature poodle, and her mom come over to watch "A Serious Man" with us. Trixie stole Buster's hoof and growled at him for trying to get it back. WAAA-AY more entertaining than "A Serious Man". Poor Larry Gopnick. Have you ever noticed how many synonyms for "tool" there are in Yiddish? Schmuck, Putz, Yutz, Shmendrick. We like to say things in Yiddish because it's fun and it reminds us of Nana who used to say things like "umpie".

We thought of a catchphrase: "Hey, nice cupcakes!" It doesn't even have any remotely dirty connotations.