| Stallings on road slide: 'We're our problem'
OXFORD, Miss. Kevin Stallings wouldn't go so far as to say, "We have met the enemy and he is us." But as the Vanderbilt coach and his Commodores hit the road for the fourth time in five Southeastern Conference games, it's clear that tonight's opponent is a secondary issue. .
Click on this chocolate cake recipe
An old-fashioned chocolate cake, first published in Gourmet magazine, has received more than 1,000 reviews, making it the site's most popular recipe. Double Chocolate Layer Cake Chef Ed Kasky used Callebaut semisweet chocolate for the cake and Guittard French-vanilla chocolate for the frosting, but any fine-quality semisweet chocolate will produce a wonderful result in either. Serves 12 to 14. Ingredients: For cake layers
3 ounces fine-quality semisweet chocolate such as Callebaut
1 1/2 cups hot brewed coffee
3 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch process)
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3 large eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla For ganache frosting
1 pound fine-quality semisweet chocolate such as Callebaut
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter Special equipment:
Two 10- by 2-inch round cake pans Preparation:
Make cake layers:
Preheat oven to 300° F and grease pans.
Meet the more gentle Jack Morris
Baseball fans got a chance to see the kinder, gentler side of hard-nosed World Series MVP Jack Morris on Tuesday night when he spoke at the Canaries Hot Stove Banquet at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
The 18-year major league pitching veteran and three-time World Series champion related a moving story about his third-grade teacher, who let the kids watch the Twins play in a 1965 World Series game during school hours.
After that game, Morris told her that one day he too was going to play for the Twins in a World Series. "She patted me on the back and told me to hold on to my dreams," he said.
When Morris actually accomplished the task and had retired, he looked up his former teacher, took her out to lunch, and told her how much she had inspired him.
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