Greg Wants a Car-rot Cake

I've only made carrot cake once before, in 1988, and it was a complete disaster. So, today being another meeting of my book club I decided to go for broke and try it again. What could go wrong? Well, lots. First, it is surprising how little carrot actually went into the cake, and the enormous amount of sugar - three cups. I could only bring myself to use two. Alice said to bake for 30 minutes, but both rounds were still uncooked in the middle. Ten minutes later, one was done but I took both out because they were getting too brown on the edges. The cream cheese frosting was a breeze in comparison, except for the mess I made with the confectioner's sugar.The overall consensus was that it was good, but not great. It seems as if that's always the story of cooking with my friend named Alice.

Episode Note: "Call Me Irresponsible" Greg is desperate to save enough money to buy his own car, even though he not yet old enough to drive. He convinces Mike to give him a job as a gopher at the architectual firm to earn some dough. The problem is that Greg's mind is more on the ends and not on the means. He is focused on  impressing a girl named Randi Peterson with the notion of his "career" in architecture, cause she she thinks architects are 'outta sight.' Mike gives him the task of taking some important designs to be duplicated, but Greg gets side tracked at the newsstand buying a car magazine and loses the sketches. Now, if a lost sketches plot sounds familiar, this one was original, Cincinnati was a rehash. When Greg delivers the bad news, Mr. Phillips wants him fired, but Mike is persuaded by Alice and Carol to give him another chance. When delivering the plans the second time, Greg's bike chain breaks. It's a lucky break though, because just then he runs into Randi and her father who offer to give him a ride to the copy shop. Unfortunately for Greg, he still can't get it right and leaves the plans in the car, forcing him to run all over town looking for Mr Peterson to get them back and delivered on time. Mike has his doubts when Greg isn't home on time, but relieves himself when he finally does arrive, glad he never lost faith in his son.