Posted in Baking, Entertainment on Sep 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
It’s cupcake time!
Last weekend I went up to the city for Thread SF and dinner with Alice at Sauce. On our way to dinner, we stopped in at Citizen Cake, a famous SF bakery. I had a chocolate chip cupcake there that was incredibly delicious. Now I’m on a quest to re-create it.
The Citizen Cake […]
Posted in Friends, Law on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Also, a shout-out to my friend Pablo, who made this lovely video concerning the Asterisk next to Barry Bonds’ homerun record–
Ever the budding avant-garde filmmaker, you can check out his other videos from his youtube profile (the one in the following link), but here’s my favorite of them–
Posted in Food on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ll admit it–I’m a snacker. It’s fairly amazing I’m not a huge fat-ass, because I eat pretty much non-stop all day. This weekend, I was on a mission to find honey-flavored Pocky, which M. and I had gotten at the Obon festival in San Jose. Unfortunately, the store did not have them. […]
Posted in Baking, Food on Sep 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
I guess I’ve been on a bit of a kick of making slightly strange cakes lately. Over labor day weekend, we went to a restaurant in Chicago called Sweets & Savories (which was excellent), and one of the desserts we were given was a cardamom cake. It was one of my favorite desserts there (we […]
Posted in Baking, Food, Friends on Sep 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Last week I made an orange spice cake. It was really really good. I’ll post the recipe soon so you can try it yourself!
I love the technique of sprinkling the top with sugar to give it a crispy sugar crust. The recipe didn’t call for it, but I did it anyway!
See the little spiceys–
If I […]