Homemade Desserts and Butter Pudding

   

Here is a dangerous website to visit if you are hungry in the morning like I am.  This is an expat blog writing in Poland happiness-is-homemade.com/tag/breakfast/ I love this blog because its just jam packed with polish food pictures and hash tags to get you roaming around the blog.  Pictures like Savoury bread and butter pudding (Chleb zapiekany w jajku)  and Avocado & goat cheese sandwich / Kanapka z awokado i kozim serem.  I love the polish names for all the food she displays, it just rips of your tongue and makes you want to eat more.

Here's another blog if you are a big foodie, like I am www.davidlebovitz.com/  I wrote a blog post about David's popular book a while back and it became one of my most popular post so I was just as surprised to find that he has a blog on his famous French cuisine.  David Lebovitz is always writing about the comparison between American's and the French which I like because he's so funny and his comparisons are always right on.  This is what he writes in a post about desserts.  Americans bake to relax or as a hobby – in France, it’s something you do because, well…you need a dessert. They don’t make a big fuss about it or are all that concerned about appearances. I think people know they can’t compete with the professional pastry shop on the corner, so they’re just content to make what they feel will be fine for their guests.

Buttermilk Butter Berry Crumb Cake

Its hard to find blogs that really strike you but I think I found one today
www.mowielicious.com/ .  This blog is really the most elaborate, most detailed, most gorgeous dessert baking blog I came across today.  Mowie Kay, the writer, out does himself with huge handmade food houses made out of cashews, walnuts and dried fruits, as well as coffee cakes and loafs of bread.  Mowie Kay is a travel photographer which obviously adds to his delightful food writing posts.  His posts are published in magazines across London and beyond and you can tell why: shimmering gold touches are added to platters and spreads.  Colorful holiday backgrounds to add to the setting he's trying to establish in her pictures.


www.sproutedkitchen.com, I like this blog because along with the beautiful pictures of sprouts and beat salad recipes are long, extensive stories that describe the writer's life outside of just cooking.  I walk away feeling like I'm with the writer, Sara Forte,  on her journey to and fro her relative's homes, to her favorite shops to buy the food for her famous recipes, to get-togethers with her friends, and thinking about her loved one's who are sick.  Here is a recipe called Buttermilk Butter Berry Crumb Cake

Down the Twirly, Swirly List of Decadent Recipes.

Down the twirly, swirly list of decadent recipes.

http://www.cakespy.com/  by Jessie Oleson Moore writes a very cute site, the writer finds herself to be a detective seeking sweetness in everyday life.  She puts little cartoon smiley faces on most of her  desserts giving real emotion to your favorite dessert.  Here are the surprises that I found today and desserts I never heard of: and a few that I may or may not ever try including chocolate avocado pie, mini coconut pancakes, breakfast nainamo bars. 

www.wednesdaychef.typepad.com  Here is a great dessert blog by Luisa Weiss.  Much of Weiss desserts are from Berlin and one dessert recipe is called Yotam Ottolenghi's Raspberry Meringue Roulade dessert. Luisa also has desserts recipes like Dimply Plum cake and Better Than Robert Redford.  I love the fact that she includes the Robert Redford dessert because I have written many stories on the beloved cake including My Momma Makes it Better documenting my experiences with the cake. I guess its more than the name of the cake that attracts me.  There is also a Ukrainian Honey Cake recipe on her site as well.  Overall the blog is very nice.   I love how the writer decides she's going to go about the art of baking  I've been struck by the baking bug that shows up so reliably each year when the sticky, swollen days of summer come.

How to Eat a Cupcake

      


I'm reading this novel called How to Eat a Cupcake by Meg Donohue and there is a really great section where a woman asked her fiancé to picture their lifetime together.  I attached that great section below:




I see brunches and the Sunday Times.  I see us butting heads over the current state of world affairs and enthusiastically creatively making up all over the house.  I see myself dragging you to a lot of movies starring Will Ferrell, and I see you dragging me to a lot of movies that involve more reading than watching.  I see myself pillaging your brilliant brain time and time again for answers to any number of business conundrums that I'll face along the way of building this company.  I see us traveling-scuba in the Galapagos, island hopping off the coast of Croatia, eating our way through Asia.

Messy Kitchen

      

 

What makes a messy kitchen?  Well,  Culinary Arts College helped me find out.  Listed on this webssite are great Parisian Food Blogs.

 

 

www.doriegreenspan.com  Dorie writes a great Gingerbread baby recipe.This blog obviously explores the Parisian kitchen.  You begin to wander what makes a parisian kitchen, brass cooking pans for one, as is suggested on her cover page. 

 

 

www.bakeinparis.blogspot.com Kris writes a blog all about Parisian food and he has layered cakes as well as lemon cheese cake with caramelized cumquats, and orange tian, (of course french Tiramisu), chocolate and passion fruit lamingtons, caramel cake with caramelized butter frosting and Dobos Torta.There's something about layered cakes that I love. I don't care what's in between the layers as long as it isn't a surprise like some cakes that hide the flavoring right in the middle so that you don't know what your getting into by the time you get there.  Like a big gush of blueberry in the middle of a cake, no thanks!

 

 

 

 

All the Candy You Should be Eating

   

Babbles From my Relative

Marion:(Marion opens her gifts)Candy-hmmmm yummmmmm  Energy in the morning

Marion:I'll have candy instead of cereal tomorrow or candy instead of pop for breakfast

Marion:Reese's Pieces- Yay! Protein

Marion:Hmm what's in this gift?

Brother:Its sea salt

Marion:Oh No! Sea salt is not good for you

Brother:Its a gift card with an endless supply of sea salt in the box

Marion:Oh, that's Terrible!

 

 

 

 

  

Story # 4 Derrick Starts a Duel

Derrick in preparing for the acting duel takes a fake sword and begins to show the dancers the duel, the whole time, derrick has a look of scorn and utter hatred for his opponent, some dancers play out the fake sword hits with a taping of a cymbal? Like salsa dancing, Matching each sound.

Two dancers walk out as if they are going to start a conflict, they have determination casted looks on their face, their hair is short and their check bones sharp.Steal.  The dance goes on as derrick goes up the stairs matching his opponents every strike with a strke in returns, he lands on the ground and flips over in pinwheeling on the floor in amazement that he took a wound to his chest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idyuKJRK8c

Story #6 Derrick and the Mirror

"The mirror is in front of you so you can see yourself and so you what you look like and work on yourself.   Hip hop is picture perfect, so if someone does it wrong, you can tell."
 He stands at the coffee table.(use in another scene)The dancers are constantly bobbing their heads; constant music fills their heads in time. 

You can fall over and do the ugliest face in football, but in hip hop if you do a pirouette with your tongue out, you will be on the front page of   (a dancer’s magazine or star tribune.)

Michael is able to lift his body, he has an incredible, and he is mesmerizing especially for a male able to do what he does. He talks about how he has been given chances, chances unlike many other turfers.