This Grandma loves HGTV since staying up all hours rocking newborn grandchildren. My newest favorite show is Fixer Upper. Chip and Joanna Gaines from Waco Texas and their family are adorable and addictive. Joanna is extremely talented.
The homes they renovate are spectacular. It is best, though, to record and be able to fast forward past the construction after watching Joanna reveal her ideas on her computer. Sorry, Chip. At the end of the renovation, while Joanna is putting finishing touches on the interior, Chip brings the children and a box of cupcakes for Joanna. This Grandma learned something new from Chip–making a cupcake sandwich by taking the bottom of the cupcake off and putting it on top of the frosting. It makes the cupcake less messy and easier to eat as a sandwich. I cannot wait to teach my grandchildren about cupcake sandwiches.
I cannot wait to also teach them brand new food words, which are two of the top new food words in 2015, according to an article in the New York Times, December 16, 2015, “Hangry? Want a Piece of Piecaken? The Top New Food Words for 2015,” by Julia Moskin.
Who knew that “[t]he language of food is changing at breakneck speed to reflect new menus, new mash-ups, new diets, new hashtags.” The article gives us the top ten 2015 new food words. One of my favorites will work well when our grandchildren whine and cry for a food they should not have (according to their parents, as we grandmas will give them any food they want at any time).
“HANGRY (adj.) The state of being so hungry that you become angry or irritable. (The state itself is not new, of course, but used to be described as “having low blood sugar.”) Added to the online Oxford English Dictionary in 2015.”
My absolute favorite is going to be such fun to introduce to grandchildren:
“PIECAKEN (n.) A multilayered dessert in which three 9-inch pies are baked inside three 10-inch cakes, then stacked. The tradition of stuffing foods inside other foods inside other foods (a practice termed “engastration,” according to Mr. Friedland) for festive meals is an ancient one. This particular confection has been around for a long time, with multiple online recipes, but was previously termed a “cherpumple.” (Referring to its contents: cherry pie, pumpkin pie and apple pie.) For obvious reasons, once the word “piecaken” (with its echoes of “turducken”) was introduced this year by the pastry chef Zac Young of the David Burke Group restaurants, it caught on immediately on Twitter. The dessert has now spread to Britain and Australia. Up next: the pielogen, a pecan pie, a cheesecake and a yule log welded together with chocolate buttercream.”
Want the rest of the top ten new food words for 2015? Go to this site.
I know the this Grandma and the grandchildren will have such joy imagining a Piecaken and all of its possibilities. Put Piecaken into google images and have lots of laughs and giggles looking at so many varieties of Piecakens. You can put cherpumple into YouTube and learn how to make one. Here is a simple recipe from a blog that includes and cherry pie and chocolate cake:
All of this will make grandma and grandchildren very hungry—for sweets, of course. So while planning to surprise the rest of the family with the wildest Piecaken grandma and grandchildren can come up with, have cupcakes ready for cupcake sandwiches to enjoy while planning with
Joy,
Mema
PS.
For four consecutive Tuesdays starting December 1, watch Fixer Upper at 9/8c for a special code word. Then, enter online before 11:59:59 pm ET on the immediately following Wednesday for your chance to win 2 nights at Chip and Jo’s new bed and breakfast. Submit your entry by filling in the required information on the entry form.
And the 2016 HGTV Dream House is in Florida this year with that sweepstakes to begin in January. Sign up for reminders.
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