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[17 Nov 2009|06:58pm] |
I was naughty. I bought some more braid. Some really heavy bullion braid in a four strand plait. I got it at about 20% off for buying the lot though.
This feels the weight of the real deal that I have been mimicing. The good news with this is that I can buy some more as I have found an online source :) There may also be some in the store room when I bought my lot. 21m of the stuff so far and it weighs about a kilo I suppose.
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| Holiday Potlucks, a question |
[16 Nov 2009|04:07pm] |
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The Holidays are coming up, which ones? All of them, well the good ones at least. I'm sorry, Earth day keeps letting me down, what can I say? And so that means a few things for those of you who like me, work in an office enviromnment. The short list is greeting cards that nobody reads, holiday baskets of which only 15% is edible, big tins of flavored popcorn that just appear out of nowhere, and depression I mean Holiday Office Potlucks.
This season my office is providing a turkey and we are bringing sides and desserts. I am doing a dessert so good I will not eat any. But that reminds me of many years past with the same types of Office Holiday feasts. The good ones and the bad ones.
Good one. One year when I worked in my first tech support job in an office making real money and living on my own, I volunteerd to do a side dish. I brought some good old yams. When we got to the meal, apparently somebody took the easy way out and just ordered a bunch of sides from Dickies BBQ. Well they had yams as well and so they were set next to mine. At the end of the feasting, my container was empty, and the store bought Dickies was barely touched. I felt pretty good, as well as bloated from ham and turkey.
Bad one. A few years back after the wonderful dot com failures I took a job at a smaller company doing data entry. My team was mainly angry young guys who hated kitchens yet loved Limp Bizkit (hmmm there must be a correlation there somwhere). Again, this company provided a turkey and we brought sides. Well like I said, mostly young guys who didnt know how to cook. So most people went to the Krogers next door and grabbed a tray of cupcakes on the way in to work that night. So we had 1 huge turkey, a huge dish of mac and cheese I made, about three cans of canned cranberry sauce and 7 or 8 trays of store bakery cupcakes with neon orange nuclear frosting and sick candy turkeys. Easily 100 nasty cupcakes. Yeah, we tried to make a turkey breast and cupcake sandwich with expected results.
So Food Porn stars, I know you have some good ones.
Come on and share some good or bad tales of Holiday Potlucks.
It could be at church or at work or at school, wherever. Just tales of how the celebration was a success or failure from Holiday potlucks.
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| Black Forest Cupcakes |
[16 Nov 2009|10:28pm] |
I have been thinking about making these and planning them for weeks. Today I finally managed to make them. I thought that they made a suitable subject for my first post here, I can't help but salivate looking at this pic knowing that beneath the buttercream there's a gooey cherry centre surrounded by chocolate. Black Forest Gateaux may be one of my favourite things but the cupcake incarnation is fast gaining on it!
More pics and the recipe over at AnnaInTheKitchen.
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| Mind Your Manors |
[16 Nov 2009|09:02pm] |
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http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/16/mind-your-manors/ http://cuteoverload.com/?p=35079 This week, on “Lifestyles of the Prosh and Redonkulous,” we visit Monteigh Hall, home of toenail-clipper heiress Lady Propecia Monteigh Phipps-Gargle.
The stately mansion overlooking the Floofitania River, home to generations of her ancestors, is currently under the exacting watch and care of this dynamic doyenne.
From hosting gala balls, to her designer shoelace empire, to romantic getaways with princes and movie stars, this jet-setter is always on the move and in the know.
But her most important role is doting mother. Here we join Lady Propecia during her weekly visit with daughter Phoebe, cared for by her faithful nanny Hannah.
And finally, we bid farewell to Lady Propecia in her boudoir. “This is where my heart is,” she explains, “where I unwind from the stress of my impossibly perfect life.”
Absolutely fabulous, Melanie H.
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| Yorkshire Pudding!! |
[15 Nov 2009|05:45pm] |
oh yeah, and roast beef, too. And gravy, and peas, and roasted carrots, and garlic mashed potatoes. But most importantly, YORKSHIRE PUDDING.
This was my first attempt at this grand and most favourite meal. I did overcook the meat, which I think is a common issue, but it was still so so tasty. I am currently enjoying cold roast beef sandwiches with mustard.
Brought to you by The Cast-Iron Darling!
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| Freshly Baked Cheese Bread |
[15 Nov 2009|06:50pm] |
My bread fanaticism began when publishers sent me a copy of Andrew Whitley’s new book, Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own. The book makes the case for bread activism -- avoiding possibly harmful and certainly less wholesome mass-produced bread in favor of making your own. Apart from just a political stance, though, Whitley presents breadmaking as an artform -- and one that doesn't have to be too time-consuming, at that. He calculates that a loaf of bread takes about 30-40 minutes of active work punctuated by periods of waiting.
This was my first experience with letting a sponge ferment for days and baking it into a loaf of delicious bread -- and I'm hooked on the experience, from mixing, to kneading, to proofing, to baking, to eating! My boyfriend and I ate our cheese bread with chicken and dumplings, and then used the leftovers for something decidedly more sinister . . . :)
( recipe and photos, including a picture of the PERFECT USE for leftover cheese bread )
To read my review of the book Bread Matters, listen to me waxing poetic about bread, see a photo of how entertaining kneading can be, or just to see more pictures of that amazing breakfast sandwich, please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!
x posted to food_porn, bakebakebake, and cooking
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[16 Nov 2009|10:53am] |
Zombie!Move is trying to eat my brain again. Why can't things ever just work like they are supposed to?
Off to Fayetteville and a cheaper place to stay. Driving to ATL to pick up Guinness tomorrowaj still not sure where we're staying tomorrow night. I've been told I'm worrying too much.
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| kitten wars (Lota photos) (mishka is growing fast!) |
[16 Nov 2009|08:33am] |
It finally has happened. Sophie and Mishka are playing. They were playing some last week, but it was still Sophie being all hissy. Now they are wrestling. lol I caught some of the action this morning while they were rolling around on the papasan chair. Enjoy.
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[16 Nov 2009|06:03pm] |
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And one more dye bath.... I'd like to get it grass green to really clash with the ribbon :D
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