Caela's cake

I've been very busy this weekend. Caela turns 19 this week and with my work schedule I decided to go ahead and make her cake. It was a lot of rolling! That was my arm workout for the day. It is a bit lumpy because she insisted on German chocolate cake...it's not easy to smooth out pecans and coconut!

 I still dream of just being allowed to create for a living. I've been cooking a lot lately to lose weight. It is so easy to save on calories as long as I make it myself. After weeks and weeks of this, I'm finding anything not freshly made to be gross and/or just not tasty enough to be worth the calories. Here's my first try at chicken tortilla soup made the healthy low-fat way. It turned out nothing less than spectacular! And....eating like this is paying off on the scale and inches lost.

Wonder what next week will bring... 

:-)