Pink Cake
I had some leftover gumpaste and I finally bought paper mask at Michaels. Mardi Gras mask it is! Surprisingly it was easier to make than I had initially thought. Obviously you can go really wild with all kinds of embellishments. Mask I made is pretty simple. I used airbrush to achieve dark purple color and…
I went fishing only couple of times. My first time fishing I caught some kind of a fish (maybe 1/2 pound fish, so mall you could barely see it). I was so excited. One would think I caught a 50 pounder. I screamed, yelled and I jumped around as if my feet were on fire. I get excited, very excited, I laugh, I dance, I…
When I first made macarons 10 years ago I didn’t have almond meal but I had ground walnuts. I used walnut meal to make my very first macarons. Cookies were delicious. I know true French Macarons are made with fine almond meal and since then I also tried ground almonds and today I’m experimenting again,…
I’m back with another garden update. Things are moving forward really fast around here. We’ve transplanted tomatoes, peppers and spaghetti squash seedlings directly into the garden. First we planted tomatoes and for the first few nights we covered them with plastic sheet to protect them from cold, especially last Sunday it was quite cold at night….
I’ve always loved lentils. Creamy lentil soup is one of my favorite childhood soups. You see, I basically grew up on lentil soup, we loved it so much as kids. And many years later nothing has changed, except I have to make the soup myself now. Lately I’ve been experimenting with lentils more than usual….
I’m sure by now you all know that I love baking and cooking from scratch. People often ask me, how do you find time to do all you do, well I just do, simply because if I don’t do it nobody else will do it for me, so that’s my strategy. Plain and simple. I…