Cooking
Ed celebrates a birthday this week and baked his own cake. I love his story about his first experience with carrot cake! Happy Birthday Ed.
It's hard to pick just one post from Lulu's recent "Sardinia Diary". But start with this one on Cagliari and Chia and then perhaps you'll want to read the rest.
What flavors do you like on the verge of burnt? I like a deeply caramelized fig jam, darkly toasted nuts, brown butter and charred vegetables. Stephen Cooks accidentally blackened his sundried style tomatoes but found them delicious in a pesto. Now that's a whole other take on "making lemonade out of lemons".
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I have a bad history with layer cakes. I can’t count how many times they’ve fallen or broken up on me. Then, of course, there were the ones that were just plain bad. I’m also not so good at achieving a polished look to my cakes – they look...
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Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift. For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake. I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- It's Someone's Birthday Today!
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Little Food & Thoughts! Happy Birthday to YOU! Yeah. We're full of ourselves like that, me and my blog. We also almost ate both of those layer cakes, entirely by ourselves. Okay, so maybe...
Cooking
Ed celebrates a birthday this week and baked his own cake. I love his story about his first experience with carrot cake! Happy Birthday Ed.
It's hard to pick just one post from Lulu's recent "Sardinia Diary". But start with this one on Cagliari and Chia and then perhaps you'll want to read the rest.
What flavors do you like on the verge of burnt? I like a deeply caramelized fig jam, darkly toasted nuts, brown butter and charred vegetables. Stephen Cooks accidentally blackened his sundried style tomatoes but found them delicious in a pesto. Now that's a whole other take on "making lemonade out of lemons".
FOOD
- Cathy’s Secrets To Modestly Successful Cake Baking
I have a bad history with layer cakes. I can’t count how many times they’ve fallen or broken up on me. Then, of course, there were the ones that were just plain bad. I’m also not so good at achieving a polished look to my cakes – they look...
- Blog Party#38: Birthday Bash
Happy September, everybody! And as we start a new month, it's time to unveil the latest Blog Party theme. Someone's having a birthday this month... Not long ago, I realized I'd not had a birthday party since I was ten. I really don't...
- Apples? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Apples!
Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift. For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake. I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- It's Someone's Birthday Today!
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Little Food & Thoughts! Happy Birthday to YOU! Yeah. We're full of ourselves like that, me and my blog. We also almost ate both of those layer cakes, entirely by ourselves. Okay, so maybe...