apple cake | Mama Cormier

….that can only mean one thing….he’s feeling much better

I can always tell when my husband doesn’t feel well….he stops cooking. Kevin loves to cook. Next to painting, cooking is his happy place. I’m one lucky woman. The only downside for me is that his cooking is so good that I want to eat too much of it and I start to pack on the pounds.

In the last week he’s made red pepper relish, basil pesto, sun dried tomato pesto, plum jam, chicken curry and an amazing pork roast. He rarely makes cakes but today he made an Irish Apple cake. We had to freeze half of it and I packed some up for my neighbour.

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173-B3538-9-FC9-4-E1-D-BF4-D-9-C2-BF2-FE74-B9 — *Basil Pesto*

4-D50-B9-FD-8-B3-E-48-CE-B92-E-FDC0-D7-DB1-BDE-1-201-a — *Roast Tomatoes made last summer*

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1-A439949-C79-C-4-F10-BFAC-5-A954-EBA64-B1 — *Roasted Tomato Pesto*

6-AE1244-C-8-BD9-4-FC2-9-E7-D-581570151670 — *Pasta with the roasted tomato pesto and fried Italian sausage,*

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4-EB3-ADAF-FEA6-4-B0-E-9019-4-F3-E28704-E68 — *You can see the jars of plum jam in the background*

8-CC8-EF71-D14-F-467-B-A0-B6-CE73-AEE7-C5-AB — *A charcuterie board ….ingredients from the Cheese Boutique ….assembled by Kevin*

D0369159-31-AB-47-B5-8-A26-62-BC2125874-C — *An Irish Apple Cake*

…..day 18

Today I drove to Hamilton to spend the day with my granddaughter, Winnie and her mother, Gaelan. I brought some apples with me and together we made applesauce. I peeled and quartered the apples and Winnie’s job was to put them into the pot. She did a great job and she included her own version of quality control by tasting every piece before dropping them into the pot.

When the apples were stewing, Gaelan and I continued to get the ingredients ready to make an apple cake that Jodi from The Creative Life In Between posted yesterday. We made it almost exactly as written except that we didn’t add the glaze because we thought there was more than enough sugar in the cake. While the cake baked I played with Winnie in her playroom.

One of the things that she desperately wanted to do was finger paint. To my daughter’s credit, she has a very strict rule when it comes to painting and that is that everything in the playroom has to be put back where it belongs so that there’s a nice big empty space on the floor for painting. Winnie was very reluctant to do this so the paints didn’t come out. When it was time for me go home she was quite upset because she didn’t get to paint with her Oma. Gaelan told her one more time that she had to clean up first and this time she listened. With our help the floor was emptied of all her toys, a plastic sheet laid out and she was undressed and covered with a plastic paint jumper. Gaelan spread out finger-paint paper and scooped out four colours of paint onto individual paper plates.

We had so much fun. I know why Gaelan completely undresses her before starting this activity, including her socks. Of course she wanted Oma to get right in there with her and I managed to get paint on my sweater but it washed out pretty easily. We worked on one painting together where I painted the flowers and she painted the ground. The other paintings were done solely by her.