Weekend notes

[jethrien]

- Lovely trip to Boston. *waves to Bostonians*
- Some fantastic desserts that make me want to bake more - mint brownies, Boston cream cake, mojito cupcakes. (Gaming group, expect some of these in the near future.)
- Nothing like going on a trip to make you grateful to be home.
- Apparently the torch in the Olympic ceremonies malfunctioned - just long enough for me to run out of tape.
- Finished "Re: Your Brains" arrangement for Chuckro's a cappella group.
- Also did a lot of hand-sewing while watching three hours of Project Runway reruns. It was supposed to be Olympics, but NBC was choosing to cover such fascinating stories as a walking tour of Vancouver, some random skiier's small hometown upstate, gossip about a Kardashian, and polar bears instead of, y'know, sports. I kept flipping back to Project Runway until they got back to actual competitions, and pretty much ended up seeing a couple downhill runs and one pairs figure skating. But the Project Runway was entertaining and made me able to pretend I was sewing a fabulous costume or something instead of repairing long underwear (which is what I was actually doing).

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Boston cream cake!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Probably not for a little while. There's going to be an apple cake, a mojito cake, and possible chocolate lava cakes before I get there.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Apple cake? This recipe is win:
http://userealbutter.com/2010/01/24/aspen-apple-cake-recipe/

I used Penzey's baking spice instead of cinnamon, and loved it.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've got a recipe from my grandmother via my mom (probably came over from Germany) that's fantastic. And one of my favorites. Judging from everyone's eagerness for a second slice, I think it's a pretty good one. :)

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Oh, envy envy. Our family recipes all got lost in a move when I was twelve... before I'd even tried half of them.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just tragic.

It would take a lot to wipe out the family recipes at this point - we're not big on secrecy, so there's a lot of copies. My grandmother still has all of hers, of course. She typed them up for my mom and her sister when they left for college. When I was about to leave for college, my mom typed them up for me and my brother. And a lot of the good ones, I've shared around. Chuckro's mom has sent us a bunch of hers, too, so we've got a binder.

It wouldn't be your own family recipes, of course, but do you want some of mine?

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Perhaps at some point, but that's the sort of thing I'd rather do in person so I can browse and grab the stuff I'm most interested in. If I get a recipe file in bulk, chances are I'll forget I have them.

What I'm trying to do is gather a list of recipes that (a) I've tried making, and (b) were really really good. Like that apple cake I posted. And someday many many years from now those WILL BE the family recipes, hehehe. "Hey, mom, do you have that rumcake recipe my grandmother used to make?"

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

This is also why I want to start collecting recipes into self-published annual cookbooks. If I can get myself that organized.

[nanonicole.livejournal.com]

*waves to Jethrien* It was lovely to see you guys!

Did you get the mojito cupcakes at the cupcake place in Davis Square? I still haven't been there and think my life is worse off because of it.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Kickass Cupcakes? Yup.

They also had a cinnamon-chai sticky toffee cupcake and a champagne cupcake, but we were too sugared out to try them.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I feel like that's the biggest problem of the "food tour"--by the end of it, you're pretty sick of the food in question. Kinda like the "butterover" problem.