Vacation Eats: Sweets with the In-laws

This is a post in my "Vacation Eats" series. I'm posting about various eating and drinking experiences I had on our 2011 Vacation Extravaganza -- Pittsburgh, Boston, Italy, Paris, Pittsburgh. A link to all posts so far is available here. The idea is to lose all the pounds I gained by the time I'm finished with this posting series!

Our trip ended in Pittsburgh, and my mother-in-law made this awesome cauliflower pasta that I forgot to photograph.  But I took a pic of my dessert plate! 

She made a carrot cake w/o nuts but with raisins, exactly the way I like it (and the way that won't kill me).  Plus there was a ricotta cake with strawberries over it.  Very good!