Recipe Swap: Recipes for some of the birthday boy's favorite foods

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Over the weekend we celebrated our son Ross' 15th birthday. I made his favorite two-layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and when he got up Sunday morning he could hardly wait to dig right into his cake. I asked him what a couple of his favorite foods were, and I could nearly recite them with him: breakfast casserole, lasagna, barbecue ribs, crab legs and chocolate cake. The problem is, I do not have recipes for crab legs and the chocolate cake is from a box. But I will see what I can find to share our birthday boy's favorite foods with you.

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