April 14, 2009
I rebattled a cake again this weekend. Though I didn’t tell you about the initial trial, I made an angel food cake two weekends ago. I had a little get together with friends, and made a fresh strawberry tart (sorry, no pic). For the filling, I made custard, and the recipe called for 10 egg […]
March 17, 2009
Preface: Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trials 2 & 3 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 4 I was going to practice piping last weekend, but it’s kind of useless doing it on a flat surface. The difficulty of piping lies in the fact that you mostly pipe on sides. As […]
March 9, 2009
Preface: Wedding Cake Perfection – Trial 1 Wedding Cake Perfection – Trials 2 & 3 Seriously I am getting sick of this. I am usually a perfectionist when it comes to cooking/baking, but the smell of whipped cream is bothering me and worrying about overmixing the batter is giving me nightmares. Why? What was I […]
March 2, 2009
After the initial trial, I learned a lot from all the comments (big thanks to Chef the City!) and decided to try different options. Instead of trying everything, I focused primarily on icing this weekend. As you saw from the last post, the cake didn’t rise well, so I made one following the recipe precisely. […]
February 26, 2009
Tmonkey and Ayagwa are getting hitched in March!!! But listening to them talk about their big day and planning was way too painful for me. “I will wear jeans, and Tmonkey will wear a Star Trek costume,” or “We don’t need any proceedings, we can just go with the flow and maybe it will become […]
February 12, 2009
Preface: Kitchen Follies: Chocolate Turd As you know, I have a tendency to fight till I get it right. This only happens when I am cooking. I usually don’t have strong will power, as I’ve already given up all the good things I tried to start in the new year. Smoke less, drink less, bitch […]
February 9, 2009
I failed. Utterly and completely. I’ve had some failures in the past but usually saved them from total disaster, but this time, there was nothing I could do… Last week, Kayoko asked me to write about a Valentine’s Day appropriate post, and I decided to make chocolate truffles. It’s one of the simplest recipes you […]
January 26, 2009
I’ve been doing a lot of photography for this great new company called Nelle’s Nibbles that specializes in “magic bars”- these yummy cookie bars that you’ll die for. Check out my photos on the site here! You can order your own tasty platter for Superbowl…click on the image below for details… Yum!
Inspired by the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes (such creativity!!! I love them!), Sara and I took a cupcake break this weekend at Lark Cake Shop in Silverlake- it’s a darling little bakery on Sunset with gorgeous jewel-like cupcakes and cakes. Lark beholds a wonderous galaxy of wacky cupcake flavors that are (almost) too cute […]
January 12, 2009
I started subscribing to Food Network Magazine. I like this one. Unlike other fancy picture perfect magazines (Saveur specifically), this is more like a ‘to the point’ recipe magazine. Yes it does contain certain bullshit such as, “Let’s look at Tyler Florence’s kitchen,” and putting black tile in the kitchen is a, “refreshing” idea, blah […]