The carrot cake in mauve icing and coffee was a big surprise for Anita. She always remembered our birthdays, but hers is during summer break when she is alone at the office. So, it was pay back time.   :-)

 
Arrived home before lunch, just enough time to bake a sour cream chocolate cake from scratch. This is a Spider-Man cake for our neighbor's son Joshua's 6th birthday party tomorrow. Our grandson and he are Game Boy buddies.

For lunch, Bill requested one of his favourite dishes, an omelette with leftover rice mixed in the eggs.  I made a cheese sauce to ladle over it after it is cooked. I was craving vegetables, so it was "clean out the vegetable cooler" omelette for me.  There was zucchini, mushrooms, half a banana pepper, orange pepper, asparagus, bean sprouts. I put slices of cheddar on one half of the omelette then fold the other half over it.  Man! It was good.  :-)

 
That piece of birthday cake and lunch knocked me out. I had a nap on the couch before picking China up from work at 3.  Stopped in at Superstore picked up some chicken breasts for supper, Gold Fish crackers for China's snacks, and a big Caribbean red papaya for us.

For supper, we had curry chicken with onions and banana peppers. I silkened the chicken, then just stir-fried it with Chinese curry powder and dried chili peppers. For vegetables, we had a medley of lotus root, wood ear, baby corn, asparagus, bell peppers, pea pods, fresh ginger and  garlic, topped with shrimp. Soup du jour was simple watercress in pork broth. We had our usual jasmine rice.

 
The chocolate cake turned out level! Covered it with white butter cream icing. I made up a batch of royal icing, tinted up different portions in red, blue, black, green, yellow. (Joshua coloured one of his favourite pictures for me to copy onto his cake.) China and I made the Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus topping on wax paper tonight. It needs to harden before we can transfer it to the cake.

Tomorrow, we are hosting my sister, her family, my Mom, my brother and his family for breakfast and supper. My sister and her crew will be flying back to Burnaby the next day. We'll be BBQing bison steaks for supper.