February 26 Meeting at Rosemary's

Thinking about the blog and my hosting the February book club, I realized I seem to be always apologizing for something, the overcooked turkey, the undercooked broccoli, the overcooked crumb cake.   I apologize for the apologizes.   The dinner was good and crumb cake delicious and recipe will follow below for those interested.

It was a good discussion of the book  "Home " by Julie Andrews.   Most agreed the beginning of the book went into much detail with respect to her ancestry and got more interesting as her life and career evolved.    I mentioned that Julie Andrews had collaborated with her daughter in publishing many children's books which have been well received.    The writing endeavor was prompted by the unfortunate loss of her renowned lovely  singing voice due to a "botched " surgical  procedure in 1997.   Dame Julie is a person to be admired for her courage, talent, graciousness, and one who used adversity to redefine herself.  

Thank you all for coming and thanks for wine and goodies to share.   We missed you Pam, Pat and Grace.    It was a fun evening and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Julie Andrews  and sharing an evening with friends.

..... Till You Find your Dream
Rosemary

Recipe for crumb cake

1 box yellow cake mix (moist type)-prepare and bake for only 20 minutes in a greased sheet pan.
Crumb topping:       4 cups flour
                            2/3 cup brown sugar
                            2/3 cup sugar
                            1 Tbsp cinnamon.    -   Mix together
                             
                             3 sticks melted butter   
                             1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Melt butter in microwave -add vanilla after butter is melted in separate bowl, mix flour, both sugars and cinnamon.   Slowly add melted butter to flour mixture.  Using hands, mix and form large crimes.  Sprinkle crumb mixture onto half baked cake.  Return to oven and finish baking for another 20 minutes or until crumbs are golden.  Let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Cake is also delicious warmed in microwave.
  Serve alone or with whipped cream, ice cream if you want to spike your cholesterol, but it sure is good.