Happy Mother's Day!

Daddy and I tricked out Mommy's bike for her for Mother's Day (no pictures yet because it is still in the shop), and I also traded my friend Nico a see-through moose squishie for this Buddha pencil eraser (not quite a squishie). For those of you who don't know, squishies are this year's silly bands. Nico was trading squishies and I happened to see the Buddha on his desk. Remembering that Sunday was Mother's Day, I tried to think of something good to trade knowing that I wanted the Buddha for my mom. So . . . I asked if he would trade my see-through moose for the Buddha and he said, "Okay." SCORE! And Mom LOVED IT!

I know I promised the triple roasted marshmallow recipe (and we may do it still tonight) but it has been raining like crazy in Pittsburgh (the past TWO months) and we haven't had a chance to try since our treehouse camping weekend. Here are my latest clay creations though, I've been really into making clay miniatures for my dolls. These I just wanted to make anyway but also because Mr. Hare is reading Alice in Wonderland to us in class and I've been thinking of the little cakes that Alice eats to get big and also to get small. So here's my version of her cakes - I just gave the carrot cake to our neighbor Benita because she liked it.

This is Daddy's set up for Mother's Day dinner - one of Momma's favorite treats, Sake Steak that they first read about in Saveur Magazine many years ago (before I was born). Daddy's trying it a bit differently today by briefly smoking the filet mingnon steaks with sage and hay from our garden. Next he dredges the steaks in kosher salt, cooks them on the grill for two minutes each side. He washes the salt off by bathing the steaks in sake, cooks them for two minutes each side again. Then he bathes them in a soy sauce bath and cooks them three minutes more on each side. The steaks caramelize on the outside because of the sugar in the sake and the soy sauce, and inside they are de-lec-ta-ble!

Happy Mother's Day Mom! And all other Moms out there. Triple roasted marshmallows to come - pinky swear!