Food Fight. I Mean Twitter War.

I'm starting a good old fashioned food fight. No, I can't, I'm too grown up for that. Dammit.

I'm gonna admit here that I've not been a fan of the bullying, dishonesty, and personal attacks I've seen come from a presidential candidate, then president-elect and now president on a public social media platform. I expected more dignity, to tell you the truth. But recently I've come to see a twitter war for exactly what it is, a food fight for adults. Sling that slop, there are no rules. Just press those buttons and let your thoughts fly. Let it land where it may. Then duck, bob and weave, deny and deflect.  

I can do all that. Just for one day, put any consideration of others aside and speak my mind.

It goes something like this:

Wake up in the morning and fire up that laptop. Although my older son is local, my youngest son is in college far away so I'll take a quick look at his grades.

WHAT??? This can't be right. I don't have to take that. First tweet of the day:

And speaking of my younger son, I demand to hear from him more often than just when he needs money.

And here comes my older son, wanting to know what's for dinner:

 

That settled, I'll check my FB page and see what's going on there:

And I'll stop by my blog and see how my latest recipe is doing. This one's a winner, everyone knows it.  

 

Mandarin Orange Upside Down Cake

Showered and dressed and on my way to the grocery store. First stop is for coffee though.

No, I did not get stopped going through a red light. It's an obvious conspiracy to discredit me.

Finally at the grocery store and making important decisions. Big, big choices. Decisions only I can make.

What is going on? I can't wait in these check-out lines forever. Something is very wrong here. I demand a congressional investigation.

I guess I may as well bring in the mail before I put the groceries away.

You know what? I may just do this again. That was liberating, probably healthy even. No more holding it in, do unto others be damned, just get it out, say what's on your mind. 

It's like I had a day long food fight without the clean up. There's no down side. 

What ya gonna do, impeach me?

Mandarin Orange Upside Down Cake

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Printable Recipe
 
Ingredients:
3 TBSP butter
6 TBSP brown sugar
1 (15 oz) can mandarin oranges, well drained
1/3 cup apricot jam
1 TBSP orange juice

1 stick butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
3 eggs, room temperature
1 tsp orange zest
3/4 cup orange juice, room temperature
2 cups flour
1 TBSP baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Directions:
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a bundt pan with non-stick spray.
*Whisk together the apricot jam and 1 TBSP of the orange juice. Set aside.
*Melt the 3 TBSP butter. Mix in the 6 TBSP brown sugar. Pour into the bottom of the bundt pan. Arrange the mandarin orange slices over the brown sugar.
*Beat the remaining butter with the white sugar and the remaining brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the orange juice and orange zest.
*Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Beat in just until incorporated.
*Pour about 2/3 of the batter into the bundt pan. Drizzle the apricot jam mixture into the center of the batter and gently swirl. Top with the remaining batter.
*Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until the center of the cake springs back to the touch. Gently run a knife around inside of pan, then invert onto a serving platter but don't remove the pan. Wait 5 minutes then gently remove pan and allow the cake to cool completely.