Crisp corners and recipes

Several of you were wondering what the heck is all the fuss about touching up drywall.  Well, it's not just nail holes from wall display.  Our corners in mom's addition cracked open enough to lift the drywall tape and they were a mess.  They laid the 4'x8' drywall sheets on their sides creating a seam 4' up the wall, which of course cracked and also needed dug out and redone. So in addition to the holes from crown moulding and displays, I had to cut and remove the corner tapes and compound, replace them, and cover with several coats of "mud" to even the surface, sanding/scraping between.  It's a little more involved, but seams and corners are done!  Ready for primer and paint.  Cutting in around the beams won't be fun.

Take a look at my crisp and sharp corner!!  I've patched ceilings and walls and corners and have done a pretty good job.  Matching a texture on the ceiling can be difficult or easy, no in between.

Here's the stuffed cabbage Halupki  Golapki Golumki recipe that mom used for years, as did our church.  We've tried other mixtures for the juice/sauce but much prefer this one.  You can find it on the recipe blog link in the right hand column, or click here http://marlanco.blogspot.com/.

The recipes for the chiffon cakes are in this post and can be clicked on to enlarge/print.  https://samplers-and-santas.blogspot.com/2013/10/christmas-tree-and-cake.html 

The mahogany is not a sweet chocolate and none of these cakes are very moist, more of a dry texture but definitely textured!  This is the chocolate chip and I want to try a lemon chiffon, think it will be divine.

I have three of these aluminum chiffon cake pans (tube pan) with removable centers and am lucky to have them.  But do I really need three?  The pan is not greased for chiffons but I did use parchment paper cut to fit the bottom.  When inverted on the ears to cool it still stayed put.

My cut is burning like a project gone bad so I glued it shut.

 

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