i swear it would be a catchy headline, the stuff of urban legends. The Linzer Massacre. it has rhythm, it rhymes, and it has a vaguely exotic name. picture a beautiful Austrian girl, Miss Linzer, driven to madness by schizophrenia, strolling into her classroom and shooting everyone on sight.
but i digress.
no Austrian wintry-eyed soulful and [...]
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not really a wok in the park
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged turnip, sesame, pork, walnuts, shortbread, opera, cake, discovery week on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“I’m convinced your sister is insane.” This quote comes by way of A, my older sister’s boyfriend, upon hearing that i was still mucking around in the kitchen at about 9pm (having done so for most of the day, and most of the past two days.) Indeed, the madness has begun.
It is Tuesday, 12.30 A.M. [...]
“discovery week” project
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged discovery week, music on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
for someone who claims to really love baking and is somewhat obsessed with food, i don’t bake all that often. plus, i haven’t even mastered the very basics of baking – like pastry. i have not successfully made pastry, ever. i mean, come on. that’s the whole point of an obsession with patisserie. “pastry” chefs [...]
When tired of exams, bake a cheesecake
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apricots, brownies, cake, cheesecake, coffee, kahlua, orange, panna cotta, pierre herme, trifle on June 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When the exams are over, bake.
photo by rAchel
On a whim, i made Pierre Herme’s Faubourg Pave because it looked really good in the book – it’s a rather adult confection of apricots, salted-butter-caramel syrup-soaked-cocoa-cake and caramel ganache. It’s actually very easy, what with the clear instructions and the way each component can be made ahead [...]
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