Dear Persons Who Have Been Following The Cake Saga And Want To Know When I Will Make You One: Come to Eurocon 2014 in Dublin and I will. August 22-24, the weekend after London’s Worldcon. Seriously, you cannot possibly get a better deal than this: 10 days of fandom, PLUS CAKE. Love, Me
Tag: baking
Let them eat cake!
I brought a cake to the butcher today, as promised a few months ago. :) Luckily for me, the man who’d asked for it originally was there, and I said if he didn’t mind, I needed a moment of his time. He said “You’ve my full attention!” So I said to him that a few months ago I’d been in and had bought some small eggs rather than large, and he’d been giving me a hard time about it, but I’d said I preferred the smaller ones for baking, which…
farmer’s market!
We went shopping this morning to find some light bulbs, and on the way discovered a new farmer’s market! They’ve green grocers and a butcher and a breadmaker and a cheesemonger and a chocolatiere and people selling Italian sauces and Indian sauces and jams and wine and olives and fresh local milk! And other things too. :) We bought rather a lot of stuff! And then found our lightbulbs (not at the farmer’s market), so it was quite a successful morning, I’d say. Now off to shop for stuff for…
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It is five hours to the book launch/signing. I have baked lemon cupcakes, brownie cupcakes, and about fourteen dozen cookies, with more to go. Next time I get the bright idea to make up 4 batches of cookie dough to refrigerate & bake the next day, I need to remember to roll the dough into tubes before I put it in the fridge. That would’ve saved me a whoooooooole lot of aggravation. I posted on Twitter to say I was down to the last 3 eggs, which I assumed meant…
speaking of baking :)
I stopped at the butcher’s yesterday to get a batch of 18 small eggs, and yer man there said to me, “You know we’ve 20 large ones too?” I allowed as how I did know that, but I preferred the smaller ones for baking. He said, “Oh, do ye bake a lot, do ye?” And I allowed as how I did. “Maybe you’ll make us a cake sometime!” said he. “Sure,” I said. “I always like an excuse to bake for someone else. Any kind in particular?” “Oh no,” says…