MAN OF THE YEAR
DIRECTIONS 1. For the cake, preheat the oven to 350 F. Generously grease a 10-inch Bundt pan and dust with flour. 2. Sift the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl and set aside. 3. Use a mixer to beat the oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla for 3 minutes. Add the sifted ingredients and the orange juice; mix until combined. Toss the apples and pecans (if using) with 1 tsp of flour and stir them into the batter. (The batter will be very thick.) Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface. 4. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean — about 1 hour. (Start testing after 50 minutes.) 5. Just before the cake is done, bring all of the ingredients for the glaze to a simmer in a small saucepan for three minutes, uncovered. 6. When the cake is done, let it rest on a cooling rack for five minutes. Invert the cake onto a rack placed on a sheet of foil. 7. Brush the warm cake with the glaze, reapplying the glaze as it drips onto the foil. Let the cake rest at least an hour before serving. 8. Cut the warm cake into slices. 9. Serve immediately.
Six decades ago, you graced this earth, October 18th, the day of your birth.
It was clear from the start, attorney you’d be, With logical reasoning, skills of advocacy. Patient and trustworthy, scholarly too, The most complex of cases you know what to do. Zealous champion, you argue with flair, Handling each case with precision and care. Dependable counselor, every sense of the word, A lover of nature, you know every bird. Happiest casting a line out at sea, Reeling in grouper and snapper with glee. Always thinking, ideas for invention, Ways to improve on basic convention. Wisdom, intellect, even-tempered and kind, We rely on you when we’re in a bind. With Mahatma Gandhi, you aptly share October as birth month, meditation, and prayer. Generosity of spirit and lending an ear, You should be nominated Time Man of the Year. Sixty’s the new forty, you make it look good, With laughter and ease, like only you could. So lucky to have found you, it must be fate, On earth and in heaven, you’ll be my soul mate!
–Hillary Rinehardt
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