I hope everyone had a nice Canada Day weekend! It was great here. Friday I baked a cake for a quasi-surprise graduation party for my friend Dan (yay Dan!). It was awesome and tasted fantastic, and since I have buttercream left over there may be cupcakes with that icing at some point.

(pssst... some people *pokes boulder_girl,pebblesgirl* have ice cream and cookie ( Read more... )

What the world eats.

When I was in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, magic_missile and I went to a store called Daiso, which sells discount housewares, food, kitchen things, paper, toys, stationery, hardware, etc etc, and all of it is around $2/item.

We both came home with, among other things, bento boxes for lunch. I got one like this:


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I got my bi-weekly organic food box today, which is very exciting, and only got one thing I'm not going to use this time around. Yay ( Read more... )

So I made this tonight. It turned out moderately well, for a first attempt. The texture wasn't great at first (but it may firm up), however the flavour was fantastic. It tasted like creme brulee. :D So I'm definitely going to try it again ( Read more... )