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A fun little meme janked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) skibinskaya. I only took one thing I already knew.
Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at wikipedia.org, and pick three interesting events, two births, and one death.
Three Events:
1842: Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long. (And thank GOD for that!)
1867: Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cents per acre, by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan will become the first U.S. president to survive "Tecumseh's curse," under which presidents elected in a year ending with zero died while in office. (And while I think the man was a fine president, I have not quite forgiven him for making my 10th birthday one that my parents spent largely glued to the television.)
Births:
1945: Eric Clapton, British guitarist
1970: Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
(Bonus: 1930: John Astin, American actor. By virtue of my maiden name, I feel compelled to include this guy. If you know my maiden name and any tales of my childhood, you know why. If you don't know, well, damn, this should make it pretty easy to guess.)
Death:
1840: Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
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This is a great interview.
I'm tempted to post excerpts, but the whole thing is so good, I don't want to highlight any one part over another.
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So I ranted a few days ago about unnecessary "I'm going to get hate mail" intros to benign topics, and the outpouring of support that always accompanies them, after reading seven or eight such blog posts.
And I told MamaQ that the one that tipped me into rant mode was Dooce "admitting" she let her kid cry itself to sleep.
Well, damn.
Though a very cursory glance through the 5 bazillion comments seems to indicate there were 2 or 3 people with dissenting opinions who expressed them in varying degrees of hostility, and then the debate took on a whole nasty life between the "pro-cuddle" and "pro-cry" camps.
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1: Thanks to all who posted on dessert. Geah, I never knew blood pudding was a dessert. I thought it was like Yorkshire pudding, which you eat with gravy. I guess it is also served with jam, though. And I never would have guessed it had ties to Easter, as I thought that was more of an autumn food, made shortly after hog butchering. But I don't think I'll be making it anyway. I'm going to go the girly route and make cupcakes decorated to resemble Easter baskets. If I do well, I'll post photos.
2: Watched Sunday Night Baseball for exactly 9 minutes before exasperatedly spitting out this season's first "God, please. Shut UP!" to Joe Morgan.
3: Started dieting in earnest today. Again. If you combine Slim Fast and Weight Watchers, does it work twice as fast?
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So, I've been tapped to make dessert for Easter dinner with friends this year. I can't imagine dessert will be all that big a deal after 7 metric tons of Cadbury eggs, peanut butter eggs, Whopper eggs, etc. etc., but I'm committed to doing it.
Thing is, I'm pretty much as nonreligious as you can get, and Easter dinner was never nearly as big a deal to me as the egg hunt and the huge haul in coloring books and whatnot. I know my aunt used to make a big Easter spread, but I don't remember there being any traditional dessert. All I remember is ham and some seriously terrifying Jell-O salad in various toxic colors. With marshmallows.
Mr. Google tells me citrus and fruity stuff is popular, and cakes shaped like bonnets with lots of fondant are a close second. Well, I despise fruit. (Hence the traumatic Jell-O memory.) And this is dinner with fairly unstuffy people and two boys under the age of 4. I don't think rolled fondant is really called for here.
So I have to ask: Is there a traditional Easter dessert? What does your family do?
You know, I think I asked this question last year and got an underwhelming response. But I'm willing to repeat the question.
Last year, I made this. I suppose I could take a stab at doing a better job, but I think I'd rather try something new.
What's on your list of favorite Easter desserts?
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