- yesterday I baked a cake using the brown rice / white rice / tapioca flour / cornstarch mix I made. It tastes like tapioca, mostly. Which I don't know how to feel about. I think I'd like it better as a cookie.

- i made a sewing machine cover as well

- then I read David Eddings' Elenium for the first time ever. It is chockful of the usual ( Read more... )

- Edited a steampunk Shakespeare story today! I think it's going to need a bit more work, but oh well.

- Read a really neat story, "The Widow And the Princess of the Dwende" at Rocket Kapre tonight. Liked it a great deal.

- Interviewing moniquill and yiduigie for my steampunk POC series at Silver Goggles! Feeling pretty good about it ( Read more... )

So. Here's something neat to do. Well, for people who've never done it, I'm sure my Malaysian friends have done it on quite a regular basis ( Read more... )

Of whom I know there are quite a few. pernishus, castusalbuscor, nolan_ash and the_afterlight come to mind.

A Baconfest Menu

Pre-dinner hors d’oeuvres

Brie stuffed with brown sugar, walnuts and bacon in puff pastry

Scallion peanut butter canapés with bacon

Deep fried bacon with chipotle-lime aioli

DinnerCourse 1 - Almond stuff dates wrapped in bacon with a garlic-butter sauce ( Read more... )

He's seriously good-looking. His head's bigger than my hand spread out!

Now I have to find anybody willing to cook and consume this fellow with me.

Any takers?

I'm thinking of baking him, but I'm at a loss of what to cook him with. This is what you get when you focus on the carnivore bit and forget that plant material helps meat taste good.

I just made some fried bananas =D ( Read more... )

I baked my first cake in a very long while.

It's not as sweet and moist as it normally is. But I only scraped the bottom of the pan. We'll see when I dig in tomorrow.

Keep in mind I baked this solely because I couldn't be arsed to get out to Shopper's to buy some chocolate and really craved something chocolate today.

VOT'S DAT??


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So back home, my dad likes to buy minced pork. We'd buy just enough to fill a metal plate, and when we were cooking the rice, we'd put this plate in the ricepot as well, to cook alongside the rice. Sometimes we'd put in some salted fish for extra flavour. I can't remember if we did anything else ( Read more... )

It's nice to have my own space. It's nice to have my own home, my own room, my own table, my own kitchen ( Read more... )