The easiest cake I´ve prepared, and liked.

http://www.scig.uniovi.es/dilbert.html

This is a recipe even I can remember! My friend suggested me to mix:

1. 18-25 finely chopped dates (I made it with 30, all the package. What is anybody supposed to do with 5 left over pieces?)
2. 1 cup of flour (I only had spelt and used it in the same quantity)
3. 3/4 cup of sugar (No need for that much -Reduced to 1/2, replaced it with brown sugar-)
4. Vanilla extract (a bit)
5. A cup of milk (soaked the dates on a cup of half and half for a couple of hours)
6. 3/4 cup of vegetable oil (for softness I added only half a cup plus 100 g. of melted butter)
7. 1 tsp of baking soda (Baking powder would work just fine, but the cake might harden faster. I knew it was not going to last so long as to even cool down),

Pour the mixture into a buttered pan or a silicon cake mould and bake it in a preheated oven (350 degrees) for about 40 minutes.

You will be bound to make it again and again (My friend did not warn me on that!).
Chopped walnuts can be also added, and for serving it whipped cream or any custard sauce would turn this simple cake into a luscious dessert.

Consolation

Even an iddler finds unmittigateable pain in the seemengly consoling thought of not being disliked by all. From Rhymes with Orange.

And among my innumerable random passing thoughts, few of the recurrent ones of the past few hours:

1. I want to sleep 24 hours in a row
2. When I will fit into a.,b.,c.,d.,...half of my clothes again?
3. Why on earth prostitution and drugs are not yet legalized?
4. I heart opinionated people who respect oposition
5. Most troubles in the world could be solved if only more women were educated, and had less children
6. How I will entertain JF in Madrid?
7. Every mother has a favorite child. Every person has a favorite someone. Every favorite someone of any person is favored with undeserved (or not) chances and compassionate benevolence.
8. I blame human inability to admit its own stupidity for mostly everything
9. I will prepare again nami-nami chocolate cake.
10. Why blogs so very good and interesting are not more popular? I found a fantastic one here.
few of their scanned images below:

These are my concessions to lent

1. I bought a seasonal magazine (Much more thematic than February ELLE)
2. I plan to visit the Cathedral of LUGO (Have I mentioned earlier how very little I appreciate these type of edifices?)
3. I read and spoke about Isabel la Católica, and even tried to find something positive about her adventures in foreign policy and other"wise,"
4. I will try to eat more fish despite its escalating market value (Fresh MERLUZA at the unprecedented price of 116EUR per kilo in the closest shop which by the way I thought was a discount food chain (¿?STILL PUZZLED¿?),
5. I am using mostly PURPLE in our new blog ( www.maromasdeltorpe.blogspot.com ). Is not purple a lenty-like color? It is not an easter one, certainly...mmmhhh...
6. I am making discrete sacrifices daily. For example, yesterday I refrained from making a fabulous chocolate cake; it was too easy. I decided to make it later, and much more complicated,
7. I have noticed it at all ( YES! LENT!) despite the negligible impact it has always had on my practical life (It did disturbed me a little not to be able to dispute the imposition of the wet ashes cross on my clean forehead when I was a child. I did not carry it with grace...I must admit though, that some classmates seemed more beautiful with that "symbol on top" -more than without-)

Not too many, just enough, but I still can apply for redemption later.

Fantastic jewelry HERE