What a wonderful and historic day! September 17, 1787 the founding fathers of our country signed this essential document! If we fast forward 193 years another wonderful and historic event happened. Larry and Janene Richins had their first and only son! His name Larry Glen Richins. What a fabulous benefit that he loves the constitution that he shares a birthday with.
I ended up making two of them because the actual earthquake cake has coconut and walnuts or pecans on the bottom of it and there are a bunch of people in our extended family that have not acquired a taste for those things. I also made him these chocolates called oreo bites that are completely naughty and super, super fabulous. I really had to send them to school with him to give them away so I could get them out of the house for the sake of my hips.
So what did we do for this GRAND occasion? Well that very evening I took Glen out to dinner. I had to choose the restaurant even though it was his birthday, I think I might make him do the same for me! We went to Salt City Burger Co. I had heard about this place on t.v. The show had done a burger challenge with 5 local burger joints to see who had the best burger and because an In and Out Burger had been announced to come to Draper, Utah. Salt City won. And after going there we know why. We had the best burgers I think we have ever had. The meat is ground fresh every day, they actually grind bacon in with the beef for the bacon burger and they have a condiment bar so you can put what you like on your burger.Glen had a bacon burger and I had a turkey burger with blue cheese on it and we shared an order of 1/2 fries 1/2 onionrings. Ooooh baby! They were AMAZING! After that we got ice cream to top the night off! The ice cream was really good but I can't remember the name of the shop because the burgers left such an impression!
On Sunday we had a family dinner with both of our families at my parents house. I made him an earthquake cake, instead of a BYU cake which I had done the past two years. ( not purposely)
I ended up making two of them because the actual earthquake cake has coconut and walnuts or pecans on the bottom of it and there are a bunch of people in our extended family that have not acquired a taste for those things. I also made him these chocolates called oreo bites that are completely naughty and super, super fabulous. I really had to send them to school with him to give them away so I could get them out of the house for the sake of my hips. What a celebration!
As a side note if we were food critics I would let you know that just this past Friday we went to another burger place, that Glen had heard was good from some students, called Five Guys. It was good, but really no comparison to Salt City. So if you come to Utah, the Salt Lake Valley in particular, and have a hankering for a REALLY GOOD hamburger, we recommend going to Salt City Burger Co.
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Also, I need to know the recipe for your earthquake cake. It looks scrumptious! And these oreo bites? What's all that about? I need to hear more!