A couple more recent Lynxcub quotes ( Read more... )

Ventured to Evergreen Brickworks for the first time today, for the farmers' market they have there on Saturdays. I'd been missing the big market at Wychwood Barns - the one in East Lynn Park is the closest to where I live now, but it's tiny by comparison, and a lot of the vendors I used to buy from regularly are not there. But the Brickworks ( Read more... )

The new(-ish) Bulk Barn store at Yonge and Carlton is DANGEROUS. I went in there yesterday thinking I'd just check it out, maybe get one or two things I'm out of. Walked out with 19 different things, having spent about 6x as much money as I'd intended to. Too much awesomeness in one place ( Read more... )

While we were making cupcakes: "The whole point of baking is to get dirty, all over you!"

And, shortly thereafter: "But I like flour in my hair ( Read more... )

OK, so as many of you know I have been getting much more into baking since moving to my current apartment, because I discovered that my previous conviction that I was hopeless at it might have been more of a function of having lived in a lot of cheap apartments with dodgy ovens. The current one actually goes to the temperature you set it to and ( Read more... )

Being a parent always means having to answer a lot of questions. Being a parent with a complicated life and/or some unconventional interests sometimes means having to answer some less common sorts of questions. Here are a few the Cub has asked me of late, followed by my answers:

• ( Why are we making a cake with gears on it? )

I happened upon the blog at Post-Punk Kitchen last night (that's the web site run by the authors of Vegan with a Vengeance, The Veganomicon, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, etc.), and when I went to add the RSS feed to my LJ friends page, apparently it didn't have a syndicated feed set up here yet, which somewhat astonishes me. So I made one ( Read more... )

Slept too late, and the pears were not ripe yet despite being stuck in a bag with apples for a day and a half, so I didn't get to make the sweet potato/pear thing I was going to - just set off with the cupcakes, cookies, tofu roast (á la Tofurkey, but by a small local company instead) and blackberry porter. Which as it turned out was plenty, ( Read more... )

1. I am not, in fact, a Person Who Bakes. I am, at best, a Person Who Is Attempting To Figure This Whole Baking Thing Out, With Varying Degrees Of Success.
   
   
2. Things they tell you to do in recipes sound so much easier than they actually are.
   
   
3. Drizzling melted chocolate on top of something, for example, would be easier if melting the chocolate had ( Read more... )

...And I have chocolate-orange shortbread baking in the oven - well, orange shortbread, anyway. The chocolate gets added after they come out. And a really, really random mix of Christmas music on, which includes everything from the Mediaeval Baebes and Loreena McKennit to various noisy punk and/or industrial manglings of Christmas carols, and ( Read more... )