Happy Medicare a day early! I get to negotiate that maze in a few months myself. I've often looked at recipes for Tres Leches cake and wondered what it's like. Good or bad, be sure to take a pic!! And enjoy your day!! :>)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, dear Annie!!

What would the CF be without you, besides boring!!! Please don't ever leave. :-))

Happy Birthday, Annie! I hope you have a great day and that your cake comes out fantastic. Baking your own cake is the surest way to get exactly what you want. :)

These are the first of my rhododendron flowers that are just now opening:

Happy Birthday! I hope you have a most enjoyable day.

Happy Early Birthday ((((Annie))))! I hope tomorrow brings you joy and peace (mostly peace, and rest too, LOL!)... and I hope your tres leches cake is perfect (and I'm betting it will be), and you eat at least 2 pieces!

... and wishing you many, many more happy birthdays to come!

I'll add to the Happy Birthday chorus, Annie. Hope you have a great day!!

Happy HAPPY birthday, Dear Girl ! ! ! I hope your day is super special, and I wish you many many more YEARS of birthdays!

Of course you're making your own cake! LingOL. :) Tres leches is very sweet, but delicious. I think dark chocolate espresso ice cream's bitterness is perfect for cutting that, and they'll look pretty together too.

I hope you have a very happy birthday and a great many returns of the day!

Happy Birthday, Annie! I know lots of special people with birthdays in May. :-)

This might not exactly be my cake of choice, but it's definitely colorful!

Sol

Happy birthday my cyber sister

Happy birthday!

Thank you, everyone, for the flowers, the cards, the cake, the wishes. My cake is residing safely in the refrigerator, and the ice cream is in the freezer next to a container of freshly made raspberry sorbet. I'm impatient to taste it, but I'll restrain myself until tomorrow. Maybe breakfast?

Annie

Happy birthday to yooooooooooooo!

Happy Birthday, Annie!

Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Looking forward to the TreLeche review, 😂

It is a 50/50 love/hate here. Not my home but NY in general. I've tasted dozens of times. Various recipes. (they have it at work all the time). 50% run for it and fight over it, and 50% make barf face. I always just taste, like maybe a scant Tbsp. I'm a fence sitter. If it is most like a custard I like it fine. Not always super sweet.

Came across this recipe looking for rhubarb ideas. Interesting....Link, HERE

Smart to have a second dessert choice. 😜

Happy Birthday, Annie!

Happy Birthday, Annie! You just gave me an excuse to sneak another sliver of birthday cake. (Celebrated my wife and daughter’s with the in-laws today.) Toasting you with a forkful!

Happy Birthday, Annie. Wishing you a present of a warmer than predicted overnight temperature for your garden.

Happy belated birthday Annie. I hope you had a great day and the cake turned out fantastic!

LOL, Jack, I need to get my cows one of those!

FOAS, I hope your wife and daughter had a very happy birthday too.

Thank you, everyone, for the good wishes.

Naturegirl, unfortunately I did not get the good weather you wished for. We had a frost. (sigh) The cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc. were just fine. Peppers and tomatoes were not so happy. Elery and I found every bucket, basket, hotkap, cardboard box we could lay our hands on and covered those plants. The zucchini were just starting to peek through, and I think I'll have to replant those, but everything else was just touched or escaped unscathed. So far...

The cake was good. Wet, but good. Not custard-like, but soggy-cake-like. Not bad soggy, but soggy. I added a layer of dulce de leche because I had a can of that in the pantry, and it was a good addition, I think. I took pictures but have not loaded them on the computer because I've been busy saving the garden and entertaining Mother.

I will, though, I promise!

Sleevendog, I'm thinking I might like that rhubarb version better, I'm definitely going to try that, so thanks for the chicken AND the cake recipe!

Elery built me two new planter boxes for herbs, I got a Tractor Supply gift card (Elery says you might be a redneck if most of your wardrobe comes from the farm stores, LOL), a new tarragon plant, a sprinkling can from The Princess, which she painted to say "Grandma's Grow Op - Water Supply" on one side and "Property of Ranchito Costa Lotta" on the other side. Of course, it was a plastic sprinkler and she used acrylic paints and when she tried to peel the stencil off all the paint peeled off and so the can is again green plastic, LOL. Ah well, it's the thought, you know.

My brother called twice asking whether he had told me happy birthday yet and my Mother kept asking who was having a birthday, LOL. They're both confused, which is kind of interesting since they live in the same house...

Ashley and the girls will come over later this week, after Mother goes home. And so, I can stretch the birthday celebration out maybe all week!

Annie

Annie, I'm so sorry I missed your special day. Happy Belated Birthday!

Wishes to you Annie - thank you for your generous and knowledgeable input on this forum for so many years. You are a treasure! Wish I could come give you a hug but you'll just have to hug your monitor and pretend it is me. Happy Happy!!

Happy Birthday to you, Annie!

Madonna, it's still my birthday WEEK, so it's all good.

Nancy, my Mother asked me why I was hugging the computer, LOL. She stays up late. I told her that I was sending hugs to one of my Cooking Forum friends and she just nodded and smiled, like it wasn't unusual. (grin)

Sol, my dear friend, don't think I've missed you. I'll hug the computer again, just for you!

Now I'm going to bed, I think, tomorrow I'm canning pickled asparagus, the first batch of the season, yum.

Annie

Happy birthday week....you can now officially say you are a geezer..... and remind people that 65 is the new 45!!
Didn't bake you a cake...if i had I would have eaten it all myself.
Keep celebrating!

A late Happy birthday to you, Annie! A week of celebration is fitting for a big milestone birthday. Can't wait to see your cake pic- I've often thought I would try a tres leches cake, but hasn't happened yet.