( succes was pretty successful, haha )

why do i always do this to myself? my final for the first module takes place in 13 hours, and i still have material to cover. my head is a jumble of recipes, temperatures and assembling techniques. grrr.

also, i have had nelly furtado's "promiscuous" on infinite repeat for the past few days, either in my head or actually. i partly blame bidetofevil but ( Read more... )

my recent posts have been sporadic partly because of the lack of Real Life news to report. thankfully, this has been remedied because, as the title of the post would imply, i'm now gainfully employed. that is, in addition to my almost-hobby teaching job (almost-hobby, in that the hours are so few).

( job hunting, boo )

today was miroir au cassis which is a blackcurrant mousse cake with a thin (hidden) layer of ladyfinger on the bottom, glazed, and then decorated with white chocolate stencilling. the mousse itself is a triple threat of whipped cream, blackcurrant puree with gelatin, and the dreaded Italian Meringue ( Read more... )

i really have nothing to blame the lack of updates on, except for my inherent laziness ( Read more... )

similar to how rea42 mentioned that her inner voice has started to speak broken english with a japanese accent, i have started to think in french accent.

i'm off to the t-dot for the long weekend. must exercise financial restraint.

( food ramblings )

i need to make some serious offerings to the meringue gods. and possibly the crust gods.

i have to keep this short, and am trying to make a mental list of all the things i have been meaning to blog about ( Read more... )

yesterday was meringue day = exhausting. who needs the gym when you've got egg whites and a giant whisk ( Read more... )