Just an Update!

It's been a while since I've posted, and there is only one answer to that: FINALS. Well, as you can probably tell, I am nearly done with them, and have just finished the most excruciating of them all...

So I go after school to Barnes and Nobles to try to buy an American History textbook by Alan Brinkley, because my teacher mentioned the possibility of it being there. Note/hint/suggestion: Psst. They usually do not carry textbooks at Barnes and Nobles...

I come home and here I am, sitting in front of my computer, updating while eating the highlight of my post: puddings/creme brulee. For an afternoon snack, they are the utmost ideal of them all. Though you can try to make them (and I will include a recipe for the creme brulee in the recipe section), I suggest that you try buying packs of Japanese or Korean style pudding at Asian grocery stores and markets. They taste absolutely wonderful and aren't as fatty as the creme brulee would seem, and most of all, they come in terribly adorable shapes (or at least the one I bought did... It's much more appealing than your average circle.) Though a little bit expensive, these small delights do a good job of serving your anxious taste buds while managing the amount of calories and sugar that you consume.

Cakes and Pizza?

Today, I ventured to one of my best buddies' house to bake a wedding cake. Everything was going smoothly as I had hoped and expected, that is, till the decorating time came...

We slopped on the special cream, but the cream was just not staying on! It would get a bit liquid-y and start slipping off the edges. Decorations with icing on top of the cream would then fall off with the cream... So, my detective brain snapped open, as I ran through my mind what I did wrong.

I kept thinking, until my buddy's dad came with pizza for us. They were from pizza hut, and one was a supreme pizza with thin crust, the other pineapple and chicken with pan crust. I followed my instincts and ate the pineapple and chicken pizza, but I decided to give the supreme a shot. Tasting the pizza in my mouth, my taste buds discovered the new wonder of the exotic tastes of thin crust. Crunchy, but not too hard... Crispy, but not too crumbly... And the taste was simply too extravagant!

So afterward, I head home with the mystery still spinning in my head, unsolved. It was not till I was at my driveway that I realized my cake-fatal mistake: I had not let the cake cool enough. Usually, when cakes are to be decorated, especially with something not as hard as icing, they need to go through 2-3 hours in the fridge, which I had neglected. Case solved.

I will include the recipe of the special cream that I use, which is, much better than icing in my opinion. (It will be more appealing to those whom find icing too sweet.)

Frustration, Stress, then RELAXATION

This is a tight time of the year, with all of finals, exams, and such. I will not be able to post so much, but I will manage what I can muster. Fellow Fruitcake Baguette "blogees", let us fight this war of stress and frustration together! Let us endure... Meanwhile. I ought to get back to studies. T_T

Oh, since this is a FOOD blog, I'll mention that this weekend I'm going to be baking cakes! Good ones! My buddies will manage a Victorian lemon cake, and I... a classic strawberry jam cake! I apologize that it will not be a French baguette nor fruitcake. ;( But all is good. I will psot the recipe of the classic strawberry cake later soon.

The Beginning of a Beginning

As my great drum major in band has said, "This is the beginning of a beginning... and there will be a beginning of a middle... a beginning of an end... and an end of an end..."

So my blog will try to focus much on humor, some aspects of my life, and most of all... FOOD!!!
Lucky for you readers, I venture to Shanghai, China this summer... That means... MORE AND MORE AND MORE about FOOD! All you lovelies might have to wait until June though... :( Still have many events coming up too...

But feel free to give any requests of anything you want me to write about! :D I love reading comments, reviews, etc.