Cooking/Baking Update

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

[Edit 3/3/10: I made the Lemon Olive-Oil Cake a third time, it came out great!]

• I retried the olive oil lemon cake, and with the help of an electric hand mixer, the meringue came out correctly and the cake came out rather subtle and tasty. My modifications to the recipe included using the zest from an entire lemon, and baking it in a 9X9 glass pan.
• Sometime between my last macaron attempt I tried (and failed) two more times, once with a Martha Stewart recipe and again with the original recipe. Even though they don't look right, I'm still addicted to the way my failures taste!
• I made thekitchn's Very Simple Dal Palak using some garam masala from Penzey's in the Strip District. I think it's been my dinner for the past week. It's very good and easy to make.

A slice of my olive oil lemon cake, from the second time.

T-shirt Modifications

Monday, July 20, 2009

A riff on a theme I've been seeing from J. Crew this past season. I bought two J. Crew t-shirts on sale for $8/each, removed the sleeves on one and embroidered some spade-shaped "petals" to the collar of the other. Please don't mind the wrinkles.



A loose-fitting Gap tee on sale gets a new life as an art-camp-inspired creation. The gingko leaves' veins were too fine to be displayed by the paint. Maybe a linoleum block cutting would be better next time.
The leaves pile up along the side seams of the shirt.

Academichic has a good post on DIY Embellished T-shirts.

Busy, busy.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

On the ferry between Rhodes and Santorini, 6/09.
I've been a bit busy these past two months, traveling to conferences in exotic places, giving talks that don't belong to me, and just having an all over good time, but I have returned!