While I was triumphantly preparing Awesome Cake for the Earth Hour Party I went to (with additional Extra Awesome in the form of Cake Balls), I cranked up the challenge by also making a cake to take to Mumini and Dadini’s for morning tea. Truly, I have been in a world of cake lately. As [...]
Also taggedEarth Hour Party: time to make a cake. I kept it easy, with a simple moist chocolate cake. Having seen Pencil Kitchen’s Mango Upside Down Cake (and holy CRAP that looks freaking delicious and different and totally new to me), I was intrigued by the dark, moist chocolate cake, the first chocolate cake recipe I’ve [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingI just made a huge batch of chocolate chip biscuits. Or cookies, depending on your vernacular. The recipe said “makes 18 large cookies” and I’m beginning to think the author and I are working on vastly different scales. Or, maybe a cookie and a biscuit aren’t different words for the same thing after all. Maybe [...]
Also tagged banging onFirsts! I did some things for the first time. Neither is about sex or drugs, but keep reading anyway. Go on. Today I made biscotti! Never done that before. Today I also built a garden bed! Also never done that before, and, while satisfying, it was slightly less interesting than the biscotti. Although both lacked [...]
Also tagged banging onThe funny thing about pie is that it is never quite what I anticipate. It’s never quite as robust, never really a hand-held affair. In movies and such, people pick up fat wedges, take a bite and it doesn’t spill out the sides and all over their clothes. I don’t think I have ever had [...]
Also tagged awesomeI made bikkies! I went to the library! Apparently I am four years old, because this was enough to make me twinkly-cheeked and rosy-eyed. If you are feeling at all ennui-ed, perhaps a little pallid or blue with the ongoing round of daily life, may I suggest a visit to a library and some bikkies [...]
Also tagged reading timeI’ve been reading a lot of Oh She Glows lately: her cooking looks awesome and she clearly has a place in her heart for oats equal to mine. All her biscuits and cakes and slices look so nourishing, full of oats and seeds and fruit. Ooh yeah, toast my granola. I love finding new ways [...]
Also tagged foodThat’s right, folks, it’s time to talk breakfast again. And we all know what “talk” means around here, don’t we? It means SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO MY OPINION. As long as we’re clear. I’m not about to tell you it’s the most important meal of the day: that would be clichéed and glib. But [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, breakfastDelicious? Probably. 101 Cookbook’s Bittersweet Chocolate Tart received rave reviews at the party we took it to. You could hear the clink of forks dropped in amazement as people took their first bites. They probably weren’t just being polite. Right? After all, you can’t lie during Earth Hour. The Killer Pandas come after ya. But [...]
Also taggedIf you’ve been paying attention at all, you’ll have figured out by now that I’ve got a breakfast…thing. It’s not really a fetish. I mean, I don’t need a bowl of muesli near me to have an orgasm or anything. But, well, I think breakfast is bloody essential to overall health and happiness, and also [...]
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