I'm trying to be a good blogger, but encountering computery difficulties. I can't seem to upload photos via Firefox, and Chrome isn't getting along with my computer these days.
Wow, that's fascinating technical stuff there, n'est-ce pas?
I think you should watch the current season of Mad Men because it's really good. I think you should hug your pets, because they're such funny little people. I also think you should hire an almost-seventeen year-old boy to show you funny things on the Internets and cook delicious meals for you. I think you should drive around listening to Iron & Wine or The Mountain Goats with your windows down and crying just a little bit. I think you should read every single night before bed, even if you're really really tired. I think you should buy a new raincoat, because it will make you look forward to rainy days. I think you should come over to my house and let me bake you a cake. I think you should send your sweet child out into the world, because she will come back so wise and beautiful and saying words you don't understand but want to know more about.
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Monday, May 28, 2012
Birthday Day
Scenes from a pretty great birthday day. Arabica, waterfront, waffles, rainbow cake, Risk, friends, gifts, sparklers, sixteen.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
birthday party
cake + friends + books + birds. also, i stitched up a hoop for my girl, with lyrics from a favorite song (it can make us both cry, it's such a beautiful sad song) and she liked it.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
bean in der küche
what's it like to have her back, you ask? well, it's been pretty fabulous nearly every single minute, to tell you the truth. it was almost worth being without her so long to have the chance to be reunited with her, to get to hug her constantly, to walk down the street holding her hand, to see her in the morning and be delighted and surprised all over again that she's home!
she is adjusting admirably well to being back, especially considering the emotional and physical difficulties involved in re-adjusting after an entire year away. she misses it, she misses people, she misses speaking german all the time. she has shed a few tears, exchanged some emails with german friends and family, and spoken on the phone to her german host mother. she has many wonderful and funny stories to tell, and lots of souvenirs, photos, books, and recipes to share. her friends seem truly overjoyed to have her back, and are enthusiastic listeners. she seems like herself (of course, right? but we wondered about this). just a few notes on the culinary changes in a sixteen year old mädchen fresh off the plane from germany:
**she likes a dark, dense, seeded bread that we haven't yet located here in portland
**she likes radishes
**she likes emmenthal cheese
**she instinctively expects a larger meal at lunch and a smaller one at dinner
**she likes her water carbonated
**she craves a small cup of coffee in the afternoon
she tells fabulous tales of the most wonderful piece of kitchen equipment you've ever heard of: the thermomix (pronounced "TER-moe-mix"). it apparently does everything a blender, food processor, grinder, steamer, mixer, kitchen scale, timer, etc. can do, all in one amazing package. i. want. one.
she made a schwarzwälder kirschtorte (black forest cake, which we attempted before she left, you might recall, although not quite authentically, according to the mädchen) for a party at a friend's house tonight:
it requires kirsch, which we don't happen to stock in our (nonexistent) liquor cabinet (our liquor cabinet is a refrigerator full of kombucha, actually).
bean and i had a hard time tracking it down (in the liquor aisle at hannaford, a young man gestured at the various bottles of jägermeister and asked me, "which one is a fifth?" i could only shrug helplessly. no idea, buddy), but finally mama d came to the rescue. it turned out her neighbors had a bottle - from the last time they made a black forest cake, in fact!
she is adjusting admirably well to being back, especially considering the emotional and physical difficulties involved in re-adjusting after an entire year away. she misses it, she misses people, she misses speaking german all the time. she has shed a few tears, exchanged some emails with german friends and family, and spoken on the phone to her german host mother. she has many wonderful and funny stories to tell, and lots of souvenirs, photos, books, and recipes to share. her friends seem truly overjoyed to have her back, and are enthusiastic listeners. she seems like herself (of course, right? but we wondered about this). just a few notes on the culinary changes in a sixteen year old mädchen fresh off the plane from germany:
**she likes a dark, dense, seeded bread that we haven't yet located here in portland
**she likes radishes
**she likes emmenthal cheese
**she instinctively expects a larger meal at lunch and a smaller one at dinner
**she likes her water carbonated
**she craves a small cup of coffee in the afternoon
she tells fabulous tales of the most wonderful piece of kitchen equipment you've ever heard of: the thermomix (pronounced "TER-moe-mix"). it apparently does everything a blender, food processor, grinder, steamer, mixer, kitchen scale, timer, etc. can do, all in one amazing package. i. want. one.
she made a schwarzwälder kirschtorte (black forest cake, which we attempted before she left, you might recall, although not quite authentically, according to the mädchen) for a party at a friend's house tonight:
it requires kirsch, which we don't happen to stock in our (nonexistent) liquor cabinet (our liquor cabinet is a refrigerator full of kombucha, actually).
bean and i had a hard time tracking it down (in the liquor aisle at hannaford, a young man gestured at the various bottles of jägermeister and asked me, "which one is a fifth?" i could only shrug helplessly. no idea, buddy), but finally mama d came to the rescue. it turned out her neighbors had a bottle - from the last time they made a black forest cake, in fact!
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
doilies. doilies. doilies.
have you even seen anything better than these reusable cake doilies? and don't you love the word "doilies"? these are new at ikea, and in my price range, too (i.e. less than two dollars):
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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