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[ricevermicelli]

In the further exercise of avoiding my email while not actually turning the computer off, I'm just going to ramble.

I've been thinking of throwing myself a really big birthday party. I want to have people over and experiment ruthlessly with recipes. If I have enough people, I will have an excuse to make as many as three cakes. If they stay the night, I can make waffles.

The houseboys point out that I can always feed them cake. They've volunteered to clean up the test runs.

If I had ingredients for icing, I'd do cupcakes tonight. Sadly, we're short on that count. Also, given the recipes I've been working with lately, we're short about a pound of butter.

Cakes I'm thinking about (all from the Cake Bible, Rose Levy Beranbaum):
Triple Chocolate Cake (the one wrapped in praline sheets).
Strawberry Maria.
White Lilac Nostalgia (twee name, but it looks yummy).

Main dishes I'm considering:
Baked Salmon (recipe from the Barefoot Contessa recipe book).
Maple Glazed Pork Roast (from Cook's Illustrated, April '03).
Probably about six other things.

There are probably severe technical difficulties with some of that, but I have two months to think.

Thanks to our collective failure to grocery shop before the snowstorm, I am currently eating blue corn chips with garlic hummus.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm butter.

i had some different brownies tonite. 4 ingredients. crushed oreo cookie parts, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate, and butter. lots of butter apparently. oh my :)

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[cos]

What dates are you thinking of?

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Sounds delicious! That reminds me, I should post some more recipes. I need to get away from the computer and the milling machine and back into the kitchen sometime soon.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

May 22.

When your birthday falls on a weekend, you should take advantage.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you should do that.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Antecedents. I need antecedents.

I should do that. But which that were you referring to? Cake, maple glazed pork roast, May 22nd or grocery shopping before snowstorms?

Of course, you could conceivably mean all of them.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Dork. All but the boringist (last).