Hahaha! Thanks for the ideas, and the laugh! Bruce, I make a cranberry mandarin conserve during the holidays, and last year I started adding peppers (Thai, arbol) for my fire-eating friends. It's actually very mild. I also made plum jelly with arbol and thai added...great for a peanut butter sandwich. My sister makes a nice platter of "Twice Deviled Eggs" using Bill's superhot powders. And the sweet potatoes..... well, we added Chipotle and adobo sauce for a kick, and they turned out pretty picante. Bloody Bhut Mary's....now there's an idea ;-) Josh

It's probably just as well that you don't have pictures of these, because we are all drooling just from the descriptions! LOL If there were pictures that showed these beauties, we would be jumping through the screen to get at them! You really do need to start posting pictures as we are crazy for them on here. If I could learn, anybody can! Do you have a digital camera? TFS, Candy

I felt like I just visited the Twilight Zone after reading (and viewing) your post! Very well done!! I guess I have not been to any fairs like that recently. The last one would have been the Texas state fair, and I haven't been to that since I was 16. The last festival that I went to was the Tofu Festival in Little Tokyo a couple of years ago - or maybe the African festival or Thai festival in Thai Town. I do enjoy street fairs here, however, but they do not qualify as festivals. I think the Tofu festival was the most similar to your strawberry festival, and I can understand why it was discontinued. There is only so much tofu you can eat in one afternoon. It would have been interesting to see some pictures of other attendees of the strawberry festival. For some reason, I am reminded of the Pogo episode in which Pogo goes incognito and says to Albert, "Hi! I is Strawberry Shortcut, the Baton Bombshell. Why don't you give up cigars?" Pogo was wearing a mop and a bucket on his head (as a wig and a hat), but Albert was still able to recognize him as Larceny Lil, wanted in 53 states for various crimes against nature. Have you been to Okefenokee? Lars

A few weeks ago we had a camp out at our house and I made two batches of cinnamon rolls: one normal and one chocolate, exactly as azaalea described. I spread the dough with butter, then sprinkled with white sugar and cocoa powder and I used semi-sweet chips (not chopped or anything). I was worried the chips would be too big but they turned out great and the rolls were well received. I just used regular cream cheese frosting (did not add chocolate there and it was still plenty chocolaty). I've done similar things to make blueberry rolls (using fresh blueberries and some lemon zest with white sugar) and even did some blackberry rolls last summer. Someone here posted the recipe for the dough that is made in the food processor and it is SO easy! Re: the horse cake, I like your idea of the simple sheet cake with horse toys on top. Then you'll have horses to play with after the fact. Sounds like a cute cake! You can use some coconut tinted green for the grass, and brown sugar for sand.