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Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Thursday

Perusing Etsy, I came across some wonderful artwork I would love to order prints of some day:

1. Shira Sela 2. Michael C Hsiung 3. HidenSeek 4. Dawn Hitchcock

Derek Lam S/S 2010

Amazing swimsuits from Derek Lam. Are they even swimsuits? Ah whatever, I'm swooning too much to care about silly things like practicality.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Tuesday

My family and I just went out for bulgogi and kimchi, then the cat fell asleep on my left foot so I am watching QI.

I wore mittens today..it got me excited for autumn!

1. Die Dame, 1930 2. Social, 1913 3. Nos Loisirs, 1925

1. Dryden, 1930 "typical autumn day citywear" 2. Dryden, 1934 3. Dryden, 1934 "the autumn look"

1. "A Spanish lady trying to read on a windy day", 1928 2. "A young woman with red hair, enjoying a walk in the woods on a windy day", 1913 3. "A lady goes for a walk in the woods on an autumn day" 1907

My foot is falling asleep, but how can I disturb this?:

Monday, 14 September 2009

Six different frostings for one fairy cake!

Last night at about 10pm, my brother informed me he needed baked goods as a lure for his ultimate frisbee stall at his Sixth Form activities fair...today. We examined the baking cupboard and decided on 24 very simple, very quick fairy cakes with different flavours of mascarpone butter cream for frosting: orange, lemon, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.

This is the laughably easy fairy cake recipe used. The base for the frosting was:

100g butter, softened

200g mascarpone or cream cheese (we happened to have mascarpone)

600g icing sugar

Then we divided it up. As you can see it is a little runny. There was no butter left after the cakes, only margarine, which doesn't really provide an ideal consistency. Also...600g is an outrageous amount of icing sugar and we didn't have enough to properly thicken up the frosting.

And added these:

Zest of one lemon; zest of one orange; tablespoon of strawberry jam; teaspoon ground cinnamon; chocolate; the seeds of one vanilla pod.

Greg came home from the fair a few hours ago with 50 new members for the Ultimate Frisbee club. And no leftover fairy cakes.

Overall, a fun little encounter with late-night, last-minute cake-baking.

Gluten-free "chocolate truffle tarts" from Tartelette

The other day I read that Helen of www.mytartelette.com (who I have already gushed over once on this blog) was experimenting with gluten-free recipes. I was embarrassingly excited about this. I'm pretty enthusiastic about gluten-free baking because my dad, brother, aunt and granny are coeliacs.

I cycled over to Mill Road, which has a high concentration of Asian supermarkets, and tracked down potato starch, rice flour and sorghum flour (juwar). It wasn't super easy - a lot of my queries were merely met with quizzical looks and good luck wishes for my future gluten-free missions. An aside: I really really like Mill Road. Before I move away for the new academic year I will try and take my camera down there and attempt to convey on here some of the reasons for my affection for the area.

The recipe for the chocolate truffle tarts is here and it is accompanied by dreamy photos and presentation that put me to shame.

The recipe is fun and the only thing I can think to complain about is my own lack of experience with pastry. I'm keen to try again with more care. Despite my insecurities, they went down really well and lasted a flatteringly short amount of time.

Here are some photos. I just downloaded Picasa, the evidence of which can be seen in the dodgy tweaking I performed on these earlier. I know the soft focus is silly, but it makes me chuckle.

More S/S 2010

Another jumble of pretty clothing from New York Fashion Week. I realise that the 3rd outfit keeps getting cut in half, but I'm too lazy to re-size a gabillion pictures so if you want to see them properly try clicking on the picture and it should take you to photobucket. Alternatively go to the source of my photo-thievery!