Tag: food

Never again will I make a cake that requires me to crumble cake and mix it with frosting then mold it into a shape. Never. Again.

The Easter Egg Cake from Serious Eats came out much better than mine did. I would have been better off making the cake that site links to, which has better layers.

The problem started when I didn’t cut the layers correctly, leaving a big gap between the back and front halves of the cake. I ended up cutting the circumference of the back half and mushing up that part of the cake to make some cake spackle to bridge the difference between the high and the low.

Here’s the finished product. I ended up running short on frosting (blame the cake/frosting spackle?) and by the time I got all the crumbs moderately covered, I just sprinkled the sanding sugar on top rather than make a pretty design. I was done.

It didn’t cut nicely in layers, which makes sense as much of it wasn’t a layer but was cake spackle, but it did taste good. Especially with Rick’s homemade ice cream.

Whatever could I be making???

My brother grew butternut squash this year, and I got one for my birthday.

He grew them on a trellis, and the result was a longer part of the neck of the squash, which is great because that’s the easiest part to cut up.

It was a good squash.

The stars aligned and Matt’s flight from Indianapolis connected through MSP at a time when Angel Food’s airport kiosk was open. And that means I got a cupcake and a donut.

Thanks, Matt!

I’ve long been a fan of Elephants Delicatessen’s Chop Chop Salad, and today I decided to screenshot the ingredients so I could recreate this salad, should I have need.

Yum!

I’ve had this recipe waiting in the wings for several years. It’s so old, it’s from when the Oregonian was still being delivered to me. Today was the day I made it.

I had both strawberries and raspberries and together they were delicious.

I tend to not do well with pie crust, but folding these gallettes is in my limited skillset.

They were delicious.

And, having made the recipe, I concluded that I would probably never make it again, and I recycled that recipe.