OT: Easiest cake ever

Cool, On my way to the kitchen now.

Vikki in WA State

Just dump, stir and nuke. My kind

Dump Cake, they are good aren't they.

Kate T. South Mississippi

I am guessing you mean a 9 oz cake mix, yes? And how in the world did you get your hands on a real peach? All I've seen have the delightful fresh scent of styrofoam. Polly

Sunny, that sounds yummy. And so easy! Polly, we have had a such a year for peaches! And they have such a good taste. Probably all this rain. One of our trees we neglected to look after, and it got so heavy with fruit half of it broke off. :-( Same with the asian pears.

Sherry

Tomorrow wouldn't be a good day to come pick peaches, Pat. We have tickets to go see Willie Nelson. Hoist a peach for me. Polly

My sad peach tree has given me some ok little peaches this year. Not enough for putting up jam but I did get some cobbler out of them. Good stuff. Birds were quite pleased with the crop. I have a few left in the fridge I'd gladly share. Taria

Polly Esther wrote:

Polly, I live in a smallish city on the Columbia River, east of the Cascades. Fruit Heaven. As I read this I'm eating a fist-sized perfect apricot. We are just past cherry season ($2 a pound Raniers) and berry season. We live 30 miles from the bigigest asparagus growing area in the state and not that far from Walla Walla where the sweet onions grow. Oh yeah, we are the apple growing center of Washington, too.

I just love living here. :)

Sunny

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Taria, I live in Wenatchee, WA. We just made National Geographic's Top

10 list for some sort of good, liveable towns of a certain size, LOL.

On the serious side, the town is growing much to fast. We came here 8 years ago and since then have seen a lot of change. But still the overwhelming feeling is small town. There is not much rain; most of the precipation comes in the form of snow. Some years the snow is heavy. Some years it's light. Lots of sunshine but can get socked in for a month or more in the winter. I live on the western end of town. Today, our high temp is going to be low 80s., tonight it will be in the 60s. Sunday it's going to cool off and Sunday night will be in the

50s. We sleep with a quilt almost all year.

This is a great town. Hope nobody else moves here. ;)

Sunny

Pat It's just the regular box of c ake mix. I don't know how many ounces. Just a Duncan Heinz or a Pillsbury or whatever. They are on the shelf at the grocery store next to canned icing.

Sunny

I've just went and nosed around realtor sites for your area. I could afford the 'cheap seats' houses. It looks like a beautiful place to live. I can understand why it is growing so fast. I live in a high desert town that isn't so beautiful and it is growing like crazy too. Just a lot of people. We are close enough to extended family and I really enjoy this house and yard but I don't know how long it will be livable. We are getting an influx of gang type folks that want to get their kids out of the big bad city so they bring them here along with their gang activity. Living in SO. Cal just about all my life I have been chased out of several areas. I won't tell anyone about your great town. We'll keep it a secret. It sounds and looks great though. Thanks for sharing. Taria

Sunny wrote:

All my small bits bore well over expectations. Even the few things that I put in just this year bore some fruit. It is just one of those years. The grape harvest is expected to be amazing.

The local children took great delight in my raspberries this year. It is a new crop of kids up the street. They are all cute as can be, but I shall have to undertake to train them to not eat my berries without asking. Not just because we would like a few ourselves, but because I have three or four types of non-edible solanum (nightshade family), plus ornamental crabapples, yew, and that thrice bedamned tartaran honeysuckle. To say nothing of the massive stand of poke off to the side of the truck lot.

NightMist

Hey Sunny, I Live on the Columbia too. But, down here in the rain. Skamania.

Vikki in WA State

Boo hooo hooo! Late freeze got ALL our local peaches. The only thing at the grocer's are baseball peaches.

Cindy

With all the fruit talk, I'd like to see if anyone has eaten a Pluot. I just found them at Krogers yesterday. Oh my, are they good. A cross between a plum and apricot. Gen