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Banana bread. it's pretty good, right? nice, easy breakfast food. Unless Bruce makes it, and then it's full of wonderful. Yummy things like blueberries and coconut and chocolate chips. You should all be jealous.
So, other than trying not to die on the road, yesterday was pretty fun. Went thrift-store shopping with Bruce. Found a kick-ass pair of boots (good spottin', Bruce!). Picked up lots of books, and had fun trying on dresses that I'll never wear.
Stopped for dinner at Top of India on the way home. Pretty disappointing, really. the food was acceptable, but I can get better than acceptable food at home. Eating out should be really damn good food, or stuff that's too hard/time consuming to bother making it at home. Wish Cedars was closer, we could go get really good Indian. Service was cheerful and the one girl was lech-worthy though. So was her friend who came in to pick her up.
Also, today Bruce made me chocolate covered mangoes. Delicious!
Stopped for dinner at Top of India on the way home. Pretty disappointing, really. the food was acceptable, but I can get better than acceptable food at home. Eating out should be really damn good food, or stuff that's too hard/time consuming to bother making it at home. Wish Cedars was closer, we could go get really good Indian. Service was cheerful and the one girl was lech-worthy though. So was her friend who came in to pick her up.
Also, today Bruce made me chocolate covered mangoes. Delicious!
Chocolate duck!
Jan. 19th, 2009 06:18 pmHurrah and stuff. Very good sauce, probably yummy on most any meat (or fake meat if you like) and not just duck. So says I. Bruce may have other opinions regarding amount of fluid in the sauce vs gravy or something.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mario-batali/duck-with-chocolate-anatra-al-cioccolato-recipe/index.html
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mario-batali/duck-with-chocolate-anatra-al-cioccolato-recipe/index.html
Inside-out Cake
Nov. 27th, 2008 10:44 amSo find yourself a lovely recipe for brownies or brownie torte or dense chocolate cake. Make said recipe.
Make a cream cheese frosting. Orange would be nice, Bruce says, but because he caters to my every whim, vanilla is the option of choice here.
Dice your cake up, and while the frosting is warm but not hot, fold the frosting into the diced cake until you achieve a food shui balance of cake to frosting. Refrigerate overnight.
Serve as if it were ice cream (but without heating your scoop).
Next project: try this with cinnamon rolls and icing. You know the kind of cinnamon rolls and icing I mean.
EEEW, no. You people are SUCH lechers. Alton Brown cinnamon rolls with Cinnabon icing. Jeez.
Make a cream cheese frosting. Orange would be nice, Bruce says, but because he caters to my every whim, vanilla is the option of choice here.
Dice your cake up, and while the frosting is warm but not hot, fold the frosting into the diced cake until you achieve a food shui balance of cake to frosting. Refrigerate overnight.
Serve as if it were ice cream (but without heating your scoop).
Next project: try this with cinnamon rolls and icing. You know the kind of cinnamon rolls and icing I mean.
EEEW, no. You people are SUCH lechers. Alton Brown cinnamon rolls with Cinnabon icing. Jeez.
Not-quite trademark infringement
Nov. 2nd, 2008 07:19 pmWaffles are good. Chocolate is great. The mix of the two, as previously noted, is wonderful. This morning, the ever innovative Bruce expanded upon that by substituting chopped Mounds bars for the chocolate chips. Excellent choice, thank you, Bruce. He's decided that if we were to put these on the menu of a restaraunt, we'd have to describe them as "Almond Joy has nuts, but our not-quite-trademark-infringing chocolate and coconut waffles do not."
In other news; we have new floors in the new house. My mom is very generously painting the walls in a couple of rooms that were shoddily patched.
Failing to make a dog kennel which actually hold in all of my crazy-ass dogs, we've given them the loft in the garage. Latest issue was Haven digging out. Today we installed a door at the top of the stairs, and are hoping that Rally doesn't decide she can make it safely down by launching herself to the top of the chest freezer. We may have to put a solid wall up there if she does.
We got satellite internet installed. Yay us! Still no time to use the internet much, though. We just got a wireless router today, so hopefully will soon have internet EVERYWHERE. Currently, the computer, television, and x-box are set up in the "theater" in the garage. The grand plan is to set up the projector there for movies. So it'll be handy to have the wireless so we can use the laptop inside.
And that's the timer going off for the spiced angel food cake Bruce is baking. Gotta go pull it outta the oven!
In other news; we have new floors in the new house. My mom is very generously painting the walls in a couple of rooms that were shoddily patched.
Failing to make a dog kennel which actually hold in all of my crazy-ass dogs, we've given them the loft in the garage. Latest issue was Haven digging out. Today we installed a door at the top of the stairs, and are hoping that Rally doesn't decide she can make it safely down by launching herself to the top of the chest freezer. We may have to put a solid wall up there if she does.
We got satellite internet installed. Yay us! Still no time to use the internet much, though. We just got a wireless router today, so hopefully will soon have internet EVERYWHERE. Currently, the computer, television, and x-box are set up in the "theater" in the garage. The grand plan is to set up the projector there for movies. So it'll be handy to have the wireless so we can use the laptop inside.
And that's the timer going off for the spiced angel food cake Bruce is baking. Gotta go pull it outta the oven!
The man is amazing.
Aug. 10th, 2008 07:05 pmSo Bruce has spent the entire day cooking and baking. (well, except for that couple hours that I forced him to pretend he was a surgical assistant.) I've spent the day mostly cleaning. (again, except for that surgery thing.) He is currently putting the caramel frosting on the spice cake. This makes, in effect, Candy Coated Cake. OH MY GOD. Now, to put this in proper perspective, this is AFTER he's made dark chocolate ice cream, dark chocolate + marshmallow ice cream, PREMIUM dark chocolate ice cream, raspberry coulis to put on top of the dark chocolate ice cream, and a lovely breakfast and dinner (home made whole wheat burger buns).
I think you will all see where I'm coming from when I ask if he's trying to make me so fat that nobody else will want me.
Crazy man says "No. Don't get fat, you need to grow some will power."
Will power? He's making CANDY COATED CAKE!!!
Have I mentioned lately that I'm absolutely twitterpated and that Bruce is wonderful?
I think you will all see where I'm coming from when I ask if he's trying to make me so fat that nobody else will want me.
Crazy man says "No. Don't get fat, you need to grow some will power."
Will power? He's making CANDY COATED CAKE!!!
Have I mentioned lately that I'm absolutely twitterpated and that Bruce is wonderful?
La Roja and/or 13Fetters!!!
Oct. 17th, 2004 02:40 pmhey, i'm in search of good truffle recipies.... be creative, don't limit yourself just to chocolate :) oh, and if possible, no wheat products... thanks much!
