January 2018
Just a couple days ago I saw my best friend for the first time in 3 1/2 months. My Mom and I picked her up at her school and after that we had a jolly old time. I made Gianna (my best friend) a big birthday dinner. For a her birthday cake I took individual terra cotta pots and made layer cakes. First I put some Oreo crumbs on the bottom and then a round layer of cake, next I put "The Gray Stuff" (because she loves Beauty and the Beast), and strawberry jam. The cake had 12 layers because Gianna was turning 12. After I had finished the 12 layers, I "planted" a rose in the middle of the cake. When we brought the cake out we could tell what was going through her head which was - "This is my cake?". Then my Dad told her to smell it and she said "It smells like chocolate!" Then she tried the cake and with a smile (and some chocolate) on her face she said "yummy".
After dessert we had dinner. ... right now you are probably thinking wait they had dessert first? We did! Because I can not have dessert after dinner cause it makes me super hyper or as my Dad likes to say (and I quote) "bouncing off the walls".
So, getting back to the food, we brought out Gianna's 2 favorite things that my Dad makes. When Gianna first came over she did not like any of the food that my Dad made. After that day my Dad was incredibly determined to make something that she liked. The 2 things that he made at dinner were sausage rolls and Rice-a-Roni. If you don't know what sausage rolls are (or even if you do), let me tell you a little bit more on what they are. Sausage rolls are a British pastry snack (the British are so lucky they get all the good food!). Tto make them you take some puff pastry dough and wrap it around heavenly sausage. Then you cover it with egg wash and put it in the oven.
I did a little research on sausage rolls and here is what I found - The bakery chain Greggs, a very popular sausage roll place, sells 2.5 million sausage rolls each week and about 140 million per year now that's a lot of sausage rolls!
I also did a little research on the history of Rice-a-Roni. The The current owner of Rice a Roni is Quaker Oats, a division of Pepsi Cola. The previous owner was Golden Grain. Rice-a-Roni was introduced in 1958. you can get more information about Rice-a-Roni by clicking on this link: https://en.wikipedia.
Okay, back to the Birthday dinner - Gianna enjoyed the sausage rolls and Rice-a-Roni.
After we had dinner I gave her Birthday and Christmas presents and she gave me Christmas presents. Then the parents wanted us out of the room so that they could talk about ... well whatever parents talk about. So Gianna and I watched Mamma Mia! I was still getting over the jet lag from the trip so I did not dance to all of the songs from Mamma Mia! but I danced to quite a few, I thought. While Gianna and I were watching Mamma Mia! we both decided that we were ready for another sausage roll. Then after a big glass of water and a sausage roll another one sounded like the best thing. After 2 more sausage rolls we were good to go and we continued watching Mamma Mia! We did not get all the way through because it got to late and Gianna had to go home.
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