( What lurks behind LJ cut? See it yourself! )

It is possible to have an avocado so hard, that even the ninja blade in the food processor won't be able to reduce it into pulp. Yes, avocado, not the big-ass seed. Avocado.

Despite this mishap, my tomato-guacamole turned out reasonably fine.

Ahoy! Here it is, my epic gut-busting nacho plate loaded with carbs.

For eight nibblers, six starving ones or four hogs.

One tin of white beans in tomato sauce (this can be generic, store brand)
One tin of Heinz's white beans in tomato sauce
800+ grams/2 lbs of minced beef or beef-pork mix
2 red onions, chopped
garlic
100 grams/3+ oz. pureed tomato
300+ ( Read more... )

Preface: 42 is a local sci-fi club, and most of the members are my friends; I actually host their website on my servers at the moment, and help them with mailing list arrangements. The club had its 20th year birthday bash on 12th of December, and they asked me if I could bake them a cake. I said yes ( Read more... )

So! It is that time of the year already, except we had to delay our not-Halloween party from 1st of November to 8th, because one friend could not attend otherwise, and then again, 9th would be a birthday for an another friend... soooo... we crunched the parties together.

( Pictorial evidence follows. )

So! I got some guests to my den, this time krfsm and the Baroness; they came here from their travels on Wednesday, and they are staying till Friday. Yesterday was mostly letting them just chill and rest after long, long journeys in gods know where, and today we're going to head off to a Finnish air force museum plus air force surplus depot by its side. ( Read more... )

So! Today I got a new stove. The old one had developed chronic hottus loose buttonitis, which is mock-Latin way of saying that whenever the stove got hot, the temperature control knobs had a nasty tendency to suddenly come loose all the way through. So it was time to get a new one ( Read more... )

So, this weekend we had a birthday party for two friends who share the same birthday (though different years; their combined age is now 70).

As I wrote before, I started cooking two days in advance, and had a furious preparation orgy on Sunday, getting everything else done in nick of time. And here are the results, right after LJ-cut!
( Yes! Show me the goodies! )

...cooking done, baking done, partying done, now shuddup and let me keel over and sleep the sugars and carbs and everything away...

Pictures shall appear later. Watch this blog.

...cake #1 is now baked and cooling. Decorations for it have been created, though not finished. Now is time to chill and relax and hope that the brief pain on my back wasn't a new wave of kidney stones deciding to make their appearance tonight or tomorrow.

Tomorrow, a frenzied orgy of cooking awaits.