One of my favorite things ever to do is to bake. Bake cakes and pastries and crisps and breads! I am a fan a pastry. I love flour. And I love experimenting and trying new things. What a wonderful life I lead back in the early days of Jacare, when I wrote lots of recipes. Ah the happy married life. Holiday Chocolate. Curry Chicken. And Cake. For the brave: Tinctures. I have dared many a man to drink my Valerian tincture. Prior to Jacare recording of my culinary abilities, I would pound the flour on a pine table making breads: french, pita, puff pastry, phyllo and croissant dough. I'd fold and butter and roll and fold and butter and roll and fold again. I'd fill them with nuts and spices and honey. Big pies of lasagna, Brazilian codfish, pots of hearty soup. Are you hungry yet? I am.
I've taken a hiatus from the cooking insanity. No more broiled swordfish with couscous. It's funny how the foods I eat now are different than even the steak and salad of a year ago.
Anyway, I'm baking cakes for the Speakeasy Ball on Saturday night and I've picked out two styles of cake I love. Red Velvet Cake and Pineapple Upside down cake. One afternoon when I worked in San Francisco, I called over 40 bakeries and NONE of them knew what I was talking about when I asked for Red Velvet Cake. I researched and found a recipe. (It's in the Cake link above.)
And in my research I found the mother load of cake recipes. Some are pretty amazing and as soon as I go off this diet (which G and I started only yesterday) I'll be having afternoon tea and cake in the future. Alaska Sourdough Fruitcake. Ambrosia Cake. My brother's favorite "Better than Sex Cake". (There are a total of 20 recipes for this cake on the site). And I could go on, but I won't. Go to the site and check it out and get inspired. I'll let you know when I'm throwing the tea party. (Where I'll make this one: Egyptian Chocolate Cake.
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