Company lunch at Hilgraeve today. I am sooo full but that's besides the point. I made broccoli salad, cake, and buckeyes.

SALAD

I just tossed a lot of stuff together. I used two bunches of broccoli, 5 oz of sunflower seeds, half a bag of shredded colby cheese, raisins, chopped walnutes, 8 pieces of bacon (I definitely burned some of the bacon- I need to watch it next time, fry it on low heat), a can of mandarin oranges. I made a peanut vinaigrette, as follows:
1/2 cup peanuts, blended
1/2 C olive oil
1/4 C red wine vinegar
1/2 C water
1/2 t salt
1/4 t black pepper
Whisk it all together like you mean it and pour it on the salad. I liked this whole thing. Maybe a different nut besides walnut, and maybe more nuts and no sunflower seeds? People liked it. Cranberries instead of raisins?

Buckeyes
Use less peanut butter, or bigger pretzel- you could do pretzel sticks- or nuggets!! DON'T BURN CHOCOLATE.

















Cake
I liiiiked. But I wanted it to be moister! What makes cake more moist and dense? Putting water in the oven? Less egg? Investigate. Also, get better at frosting, you currently suck at it. And make sure the frosting is warm! Otherwise it looks all chunky, and not glossy.