What Shall We Bake Today?

Food 1 Minute

Today’s offering has an unusual name…Hummingbird Cake!

Ingredients

For the Cake

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups granulated sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1 cup canola oil

2 large eggs, beaten

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 8-oz. cans crushed pineapple in juice, undrained

2 ripe bananas, chopped

1 cup chopped pecans

Nonstick baking spray with flour

For the Frosting

3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Pinch of salt 

For Decorating

1 cup toasted pecan halves

Directions

For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350°. 

Whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. Stir in the oil, eggs, vanilla, and pineapple until evenly combined. Mash the bananas then add to the bowl with the pecans. Stir to combine. 

Spray 2 (8-inch) round baking pans with nonstick baking spray (or, butter and flour the pans). Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake in the preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out with just a few small crumbs, 33 to 37 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert the cakes onto the wire rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.

For the frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium until smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the powdered sugar then mix at low speed just until combined. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Add the vanilla and salt. Beat frosting on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

Place one of the cake layers on a serving plate and top with about 1 cup of the frosting, spreading evenly to the edge. Top with the second cake layer. Spread the remaining frosting on the top and sides of the cake. 

To decorate the cake: Press the pecan halves along the base of the cake and around the top of the cake to create a ring. Slice and serve. 

ENJOY!

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  6. True the Vote
    @TrueTheVote
    You are correct, @canncon
    . China is – without a doubt – in U.S. elections.

    Here’s one such example (note, this version has been translated, the original was in Chinese).

    The county seals are displayed like trophies, showing the locations their software controlled.

    We gave a trove of information to the @FBI
     in 2021 and wound up being put in prison over it in 2022. It was and is all true.

    Read this article by @RealSamFaddis
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    e/p/why-did-the-biden-administration?r=gpuy2&utm_medium=ios

    Our Konnech collection https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f449.svghttps://truethevote.org/search/results

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  8. this judge should be under review

    Jake

    March 18, 2026 6:53 am

    Liberal judge gone wild?

    Angry Biden Judge Targets Alina Habba, Tosses Out Attorney, Orders Ejected Leaders From New Jersey US Attorney’s Office to Testify in Wild Hearing

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/angry-biden-judge-targets-alina-habba-orders-ejected/

    An angry federal judge on Monday evening ordered three attorneys running the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey to testify about how the office’s leadership structure operates after a judge ruled the DOJ illegally appointed them following Alina Habba’s forced resignation.
    US District Judge Matthew Brann, an Obama appointee, said the current leadership in New Jersey’s US Attorney’s Office exceeds the Attorney General’s authority.

    “One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution. To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code,” Judge Brann wrote.

    “I conclude that the current leadership structure for the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey exceeds the Attorney General’s statutory authority to appoint inferior officers and delegate them powers and therefore constitutes a unilateral appointment in violation of the Appointments Clause,” the judge wrote.

    We have never seen this kind of District Court judicial insurrection before in our history. Yet they keep doing it despite losing in the higher courts. Even their opinions are no longer non partisan, but filled with political rage and anger.

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  9. Chris Hyde

    March 18, 2026 8:30 am

    If John Cleese says its…

    https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/03/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-3-17-2026/#716290

    Actor John Cleese Warns Britain Will Cease to Exist if Christian Values ‘Are
    Replaced by Islamic Ones’

    English actor John Cleese took to social media on Monday to warn that Britain will no longer exist if its Christian values “are replaced by Islamic ones.”

    “The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma,” Cleese said in a Monday X post. “Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ’s teaching.”

    “If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more,” the Monty Python’s Flying Circus star added.

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  10. @Real_RobN
    If there is a single reason to PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, this is it:

    Gavin Newsom and his co-conspirators in the California State Assembly passed AB 930 by a vote of 59–16—and it’s spreading to other blue states like cancer.
       •   Extends the mail-in voting deadline by an additional 7 days
       •   Allows illegal immigrants to serve on recount committees
       •   Permits election officials to appoint illegal immigrants to recount boards
       •   Gives mail-in ballots submitted on Election Day an additional 7 days to be counted

    Meaning: Do the ‘2020’’—determine how many votes would be needed after Election Day to overthrow federal, state, and local governments. 

    “AB 930 does not modernize the way people vote. It adds the ability for non-citizens—illegal aliens—to serve as recount board members. I’m not sure why a non-citizen should have any role in overseeing a U.S. election.”

    In other words: EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN is officially on notice: 

    @ElonMuskAOC
     “Failing to pass SAVE is an act of high treason against the people of America.”

    The wrath of MAGA awaits.

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  11. Just The News: “Team USA was defeated by Venezuela in the finals of the World Baseball Classic Tuesday night by a score of 3-2. 

    Eugenio Suarez hit a clutch double in the ninth inning to give Venezuela the win. Bryce Harper had tied the game up in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run homer. Wilyer Abreu had a solo home run for Venezuela. 

    This was the sixth time the World Baseball Classic, which started in 2006, has taken place. Japan has won it three times, Dominican Republic once, the U.S. has won it once and now Venezuela has won it for the first time. 

    It started with 16 teams in pool play earlier this month, followed by quarter-finals games, semi-final games and Tuesday night’s championship game in Miami.

    On January 3 of this year, the U.S. military carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, in which they extracted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, after decades of hostile relations between the two countries.”

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      1. Same here….I attended a baseball game in Baltimore with an MP that I was dating right after I got to Ft. Myer in 1977. It was right after Reggie Jackson had left the team in 1976 and fans were pissed. They hung him in effigy at the game so there was quite a rowdy crowd. And yet…..I fell asleep in the 7th inning! Nope, baseball is NOT for me! The relationship with the MP didn’t last much longer! LOL

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              1. Yeah, they’ve lost me! I think it was in 2022…..we didn’t even win enough games to qualify for a bowl game but we were invited to one – IDR which one – the coach at the time, our ex-QB Scott Frost, let the team decide whether to accept or not and those cowards caved and declined the invite. After that, I was done with them!!!

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  12. “Homesteading: Mason Jars Mania….and “maintenance-free” gardening”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Mar 18, 2026

    By JGM:

    EXCERPT: “There are a few inventions that quietly change the trajectory of how people actually live, not in some abstract, technological sense, but in the very practical question of whether you are going to eat well in February. The plow is one. Indoor plumbing ranks pretty high, especially if you have ever hauled water in the cold and had an existential conversation with yourself about your life choices. And then there is the lowly Mason jar, which looks so simple it almost feels like it should not count, except that once you have lived with a collection of Mason jars, you realize that you may not be able to function without them.

    Before 1858, preserving food was less a system and more an act of faith. People used wax, corks, cloth, and a fair amount of optimism. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it very much did not. You could do everything right and still open a jar months later to discover that nature had taken a different view of your plans. When your winter food supply depends on that jar, this is not a minor inconvenience. This is the difference between comfort and scarcity, between a full pantry and the anxious recalculation of how long the remaining potatoes will last.

    Into that world stepped John Landis Mason, a New Jersey tinsmith who, in 1858, patented what now seems almost embarrassingly obvious. A threaded glass jar with a screw-on lid that could actually seal. That was it. No grand industrial system, no complicated mechanism, just a better way to keep air out and food preserved. It is the kind of idea that makes you wonder why it took so long to arrive, which is usually a good sign that it is both simple and transformative. Once that seal became reliable, everything else followed. Food could be stored with confidence. Households could plan ahead.

    As the country expanded and refrigeration was still a distant luxury, the Mason jar moved from clever invention to absolute necessity. Homesteaders, farmers, and anyone living even slightly removed from regular markets depended on it. This was not about aesthetics or hobby canning. This was about taking a seasonal glut and turning it into a year-round food supply. The jar became a kind of multiplier. It allowed you to grow more than you could immediately eat and trust that the excess would not be wasted. On a working farm, that is the difference between abundance and loss.

    By the late nineteenth century, companies began to recognize what Mason had started, and none more effectively than the Ball Corporation. They did not invent the jar, but they scaled it, standardized it, and put it into the hands of ordinary households across the country. They refined the design, moved away from zinc lids and unreliable gaskets, and eventually settled on the two-piece lid system we still use today. It is one of those rare cases where a design reaches a point of near-perfection and then simply stays there. If you have ever stood in a quiet kitchen listening for that small metallic ping as a lid seals, you know that this is not just a sound. It is a signal that the work you just did will hold, that the food you put up will be there when you need it.

    Pressure canning (using jars under pressure) really took off in the 1910s–1940s, but the idea of routinely putting mason jars inside pressure cookers became more widespread among home users in the mid-20th century, especially in the 1930s–1960s, when home pressure canners became common.

    The importance of the Mason jar became even more obvious during the World Wars, when households were encouraged to plant Victory Gardens and preserve what they grew. This was not framed as a quaint domestic activity. It was positioned by the US government as a national resilience strategy. They even had programs to teach America how to can, and pressure cookers became a mainstay. Millions of families participated, producing and storing a meaningful portion of their own food. Shelves filled with jars were not decorative. They were a distributed, decentralized food system that reduced pressure on supply chains and increased stability at the household level. It is a lesson that tends to get rediscovered every time systems become strained.

    There is another benefit to the simple mason jar. The home canning and drying of food generally misses some of the “greatest hits” of the industrialized chemical food world listed below:

    • Sodium benzoate
    • Potassium sorbate
    • Calcium propionate
    • Sodium nitrite
    • BHT / BHA / TBHQ
    • EDTA

    Fast forward to the present, and despite all of our modern conveniences, the basic design has not changed. We have larger refrigerators, global logistics networks, and more ways to outsource our food than at any point in history, and yet the same glass jar with a simple lid still does its job better than almost anything else…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-mason-jars-mania

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  13. “They talk about how important the coming mid-term elections are gonna be. I wonder what the thinking is on the Dim side of the aisle with this whole no-funding bullshit. 

     At DFW Airport they’re actually putting portable cots out for the passengers to sleep on on the TSA lines. Think this shutdown bullshit’ll garner them some new voters? It’s really fuckin’ stupid if ya ask me…”

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        1. cool!
          I switched from margarine to all butter in all things and the taste ? i wondered why i ever used margarine.
          i confess i only use cream frosting on certain cakes–but i will try it on this one when i make it.

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          1. Now try browning that butter for some of the dishes you put it in! Another level of goodness!!!
            I switched to only butter also a while back. I can’t imagine using margarine now!!

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  20. “Nolte — Netflix to Harry and Meghan: ‘We’re Done’”

    Breitbart, John Nolte, 18 Mar 2026

    download march 18, 2026
    AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Nearly six years into their multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the streamer’s attitude toward the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is “We’re done.”

    “The mood in the building is ‘We’re done,’” one Netflix insider tells Variety of the vibe on Meghan and Harry. Their bedside manner has ruffled feathers in meetings, and lackluster ratings for shows like “With Love, Meghan” have led to doubts that e-commerce is the best way for Netflix to stay in business with the couple (a Netflix insider says the ratings for “With Love” are “on par with other lifestyle series”). That’s to say nothing of Archewell’s history of what sources call “poor communication” in their dealings with the company.

    And why not? A five-year deal signed in 2020 for an amount reported to be as high as $100 million has led to nothing but failure after failure after failure.

    The HarryMeg’s production company,  Archewell Productions, has produced nothing of real value for Netflix, even though Netflix is a streaming company that has a mighty bar for what qualifies as “value.”

    “Founded in 2020 by Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” reads the Archewell Productions single-page website, “our company is dedicated to illuminating thought-provoking and diverse narratives that underscore our common humanity and celebrate community – through scripted and non-scripted TV, film, documentaries, and podcasting.”

    Yes, such “illuminating” and “thought-provoking” narratives, such as Cookie Queens, and the lifestyle show With Love, Meghan; and a five-part documentary series about Polo called … Polo.  And let’s not forget their debut show, the one where they smeared the Royal Family to justify stabbing them all in the back as racists before scurrying away to become D-listers in Hollywood.

    This is my favorite part:

    [T]wo sources insist that Sarandos recently said he would not sit for a call with the duchess unless a lawyer was present on the line (the sources were unclear if Sarandos was serious or joking). A Netflix spokesperson says it is “absolutely inaccurate” that Sarandos made the comment.

    Whether it’s true or not, it rings true because we all know the truth… We all saw what the HarryMeg did to their own families, and if you’re willing to betray and smear and lie about your own family, no one is safe from your scheming and grasping and greed and vindictiveness.

    Netflix isn’t the only bridge these two have burnt with their equal share of entitlement and lack of talent. They also blew a lucrative $25 million podcast deal at Spotify, which ended up showing them the door in 2023 by calling them, “Lazy, fucking grifters.”

    “Shoot this guy [Harry] to the sun. I’m so tired of this guy. What does he bring to the table? He just whines about shit and keeps giving interviews. Who gives a shit?” said Spotify executive Bill Simmons. “Who cares about your life? You weren’t even the favorite son. … You live in fucking Montecito, and you just sell documentaries and podcasts, and nobody cares what you have to say about anything unless you talk about the royal family and you just complain about them.”

    What in the world made anyone think that this pair of vipers — a second-string prince and the chick who co-starred on a cable show for a few seasons — were Steven Spielberg?”

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  21. Apple Lamps
    @lamps_apple
    The Strait of Hormuz was supposed to end Trump’s presidency. Iran blocked it. Oil spiked. Gas prices surged. The plan was simple… crush the American worker with inflation until the political pressure forced a retreat.

    But the trap inverted.

    The oil market has fractured into two tiers. $100 in America. $150 in Asia. China, India, Japan, South Korea… the nations that refused to send warships when Trump asked… are now paying 50% more per barrel than the country that launched the war. Demand destruction has started across Asia. Schools closing. Workers sent home. Petrol pumps running dry in Southeast Asia. Meanwhile American refineries are actually increasing output, running on light sweet crude that never touches Hormuz.

    Trump told them to help open the Strait. Every single one refused. NATO said it wasn’t their war. China negotiated selective passage from a destroyed regime. Japan declined. Australia declined.

    Now the Strait is doing to them what it was designed to do to Trump.

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  22. “Iran Update: Current Tax Dollars Winning Battle Against Tax Dollars From Three Years Ago”

    World · Mar 18, 2026 · BabylonBee.com

    Image for article: Iran Update: Current Tax Dollars Winning Battle Against Tax Dollars From Three Years Ago

    TEHRAN — After three weeks of fighting in Iran, current U.S. tax dollars are steadily defeating U.S. tax dollars from three years ago.

    The current tax dollars appear to be more coordinated and technologically advanced than previous tax dollars, according to a new report. Experts believe the tax dollars Americans are giving to the United States government will continue to rapidly degrade the capabilities of the tax dollars given a few years prior.

    “We estimate that we have neutralized eighty percent of our previous tax dollars,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of CENTCOM. “We have deployed overwhelming tax dollars that our old tax dollars simply cannot match. We have secured strategic tax dollar superiority and that will only escalate as time passes.”

    According to Pentagon sources, the new military equipment being purchased with taxpayer money is of vastly better quality than the old stuff Iran got with taxpayer money. “It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come in just a few years,” said Cooper. “Man, look at these cool new missiles blowing up our old missiles. It’s a beautiful sight.”

    At publishing time, the Pentagon had announced that while in the Middle East it would also launch operations in Afghanistan to blow up some more old tax dollars.

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  34. Aggressive, but successful lane change. I’m surprised he didn’t peel that left back tire off the rim.

    Buried

    The Letter C

    Interesting Living Space

    Lonely Camp

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  35. “Our Tax Base Has Been Eroded” — Democrat Governor Begs Rich People to Move Back to State, Pay High Taxes

    By Bob Unruh, WND • Mar. 18, 2026

    (WND News Center)—Margaret Thatcher, before she was prime minister, said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Taking that fact and applying it to several regions in the United States that have turned distinctly socialist in recent years proves it.

    California, which now is facing competition from Colorado for being the state where extremism rules the most, is losing its millionaires and billionaires because of high taxes, and more planned. They simply are moving to other locations where taxes are less destructive. Reason reported, “The ultrarich are leaving California as a result of a proposed billionaire tax. ‘Eat the rich’ may be a popular rallying cry, but it’s not viable public policy.”

    Seattle, also pursuing a socialist nirvana, is seeing the same movement. In fact, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently announced he’s moving to Florida, an announcement made just hours after the state advanced a new “millionaire’s tax.”

    Likewise in New York, where families are suffering under an affordability crisis brought on by Democrat officials chasing socialism. One report explained, “Families feel it every month in rent, child care, groceries, and commuting costs. The frustration is understandable, and it demands serious action.” Avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York, has made it a clear goal, to “tax the rich.”

    But the rich are leaving these utopias and the problem is they take with them their wealth, their income, their assets, their industrial influence. And that means the states being left behind no longer can tax their income, their assets, their wealth and more.

    Now New York Gov. Kathy Hochul thinks she’s come up with a solution that would make her happy. Those ultra-wealthy should come back and pay taxes for her agenda.

    “I need people of high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state,” she demanded. “There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK! Cut me the checks. But if you want to be supportive, maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home. Because our tax base has been eroded. So, I, philosophically don’t have a problem.”

    Mamdani wants property tax collections in New York City to be raised by some 10%.

    Twitchy commented, “We sarcastically say ‘who could have possibly predicted this’ quite a bit, and examples of that are often sparked by Democrat-run states and cities who implement policies that people flee. At that point the lefty politicians then blame the people who fled instead of their insane policies (high taxes, soft on crime, etc.).”

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  36. EXCERPT: “President Donald Trump’s request for European support in a coalition aimed at protecting commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was met with resistance from several U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, according to reporting on the issue. Some European officials indicated they did not want to become involved in a conflict they said they had not initiated.

    The response came as the administration sought broader international participation to secure a key global trade route amid heightened tensions involving Iran……”

    “……The U.S. push for allied participation was framed as part of a broader effort to ensure the safety of global shipping lanes and maintain stability in a region that plays a critical role in international energy markets and commerce.

    Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, commented on the situation and on reports that Starmer might offer advice regarding the U.S. military approach toward Iran.

    Kennedy said, “That’s a little bit of seeking the advice of a nun about sex.”

    https://rumble.com/v779g1c-senator-kennedy-obliterates-keir-starmers-iran-meddling-with-one-legendary-.html

    Kennedy also raised concerns about the United Kingdom’s defense posture, suggesting that the country’s military commitments were being deferred rather than strengthened, though specific details were not elaborated in the remarks…..”

    https://www.lifezette.com/2026/03/senator-kennedy-obliterates-keir-starmers-iran-meddling-with-one-legendary-line-watch/

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