Obsession du jour: the Rum and Coke Cake outlined on Serious Eats. I totally needed an excuse to break out the bundt pan and open a bottle of rum.
Archive for March, 2011
Next baking project acquired
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, bundt, postaday2011, rum and coke cake, rum cake, Serious Eats on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As Pictured Below: best doughnut ever
Posted in Eats, Travel, tagged Doughnut Plant, doughnuts, Manhattan, New York City, pistachio doughnuts, postaday2011 on March 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Pistachio cake doughnut from the Doughnut Plant in New York City. It seriously made me reconsider my stance against deep-frying things in my own kitchen.
Culinard Cafe offers life-changing sandwich
Posted in Eats, Travel, tagged aioli, alabama, Alabama Belle Chevre, Amtrak, Birmingham, black bean salad, boat cheese, ciabatta, Culinard Cafe, flat iron steak sandwich, food, husband, postaday2011, whole grain mustard on March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The husband and I stumbled on a culinary treasure in Birmingham last week, a restaurant that made the trip to drop off his mother at the Amtrak station more than worthwhile. I spotted the Culinard Cafe between the interstate and the station and looked up the menu on the iPhone. It was a nice distraction [...]
Vacation find: better produce packaging
Posted in Home, Travel, tagged Earth Fare, flip & tumble, food, Manhattan, MoMA, New York City, postaday2011, produce, SoHo, washable produce bags on March 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So I’m in the kitchen section of the MoMA Store in SoHo when I see flip & tumble’s 24-7 reusable shopping bags on display. I turn to my husband and tell him that I really wish I could find reusable produce bags without having to order them online. I turn to another display, and what [...]
As Pictured Below: Aspirational oatmeal achieved
Posted in Eats, Travel, tagged berries, food, Le Pain Quotidien, Manhattan, New York City, oatmeal, organic oatmeal, Photographs, postaday2011, steel-cut oats on March 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Yes, I DID go all the way to Le Pain Quotidien, a fabulous bakery in New York City, and ordered organic steel-cut oatmeal with fresh berries. I had pretty much threatened to do this a few weeks ago. It was entirely worth skipping croissants and danishes to eat this masterpiece instead. Creamy and nutty, it [...]
Strawberry cake, interrupted
Posted in Eats, Family, tagged baking, birthday cake, childhood, death, grandmother, oven, postaday2011, strawberry cake, strawberry cupcakes, strawberry Jell-O cake, strawberry jello cake on March 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »
This post was supposed to be about the awesome strawberry cupcakes I made that reminded me of my grandmother and finally fulfilled a nearly yearlong craving. But NO, because my oven hates cupcakes and burns the bottom of each and every one. I hinted around last year that I would love to have a strawberry [...]
The audacity of cloth napkins
Posted in Home, tagged cloth napkins, home, paper napkins, postaday2011, Target on March 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
When we moved to Huntsville several years ago, one of the items I sent to the thrift store was a tabletop napkin holder. The reason? We hadn’t used paper napkins for years. I was perusing a clearance area in Target one day in the late-’90s (old habits die hard) when I spotted a stack of [...]
Indoor cats are much more difficult to lose
Posted in Cats, tagged cats, coyotes, inside cats, lost cats, postaday2011 on March 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Another week, another lost cat in my neighborhood. Seriously, if your cat has gotten shut in other people’s garages several times, or has a tendency to jump into vehicles, don’t you think you should keep him inside instead of letting him run around loose? Especially given our neighborhood’s tendency to attract the occasional coyote? Inside [...]
Kickstart my heart
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged concert, concert tickets, husband, Motley Crue, postaday2011 on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Confession time: I saw more heavy metal/pop metal concerts in my youth than anyone could possibly imagine. So I couldn’t work up any amount of disappointment when the husband announced he had purchased Motley Crue tickets. The last time I saw the Crue, Tommy Lee played the drums wearing only a tiny pair of underwear [...]
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