Maybe not a monkey.
Although have you seen what the
japanese can train monkeys to do?
One of my favourite ice cream shoppes is
Marble Slab Creamery, because you can create your ultimate flavour...but what if there was an easy way to do that at home? There is. I found
this recipe that might be the simplest way to make homemade ice cream WITHOUT a machine!
My twist was to make their version of Nutella ice cream, then chop up Reese cups into small bites and stir into the mix as the last step. Click "Read more" at the bottom of this post for the recipe.
The ice cream turned out smooth and very creamy, more like gelato rather then the harder in texture ice cream your used to.
I have to share with you the best gelato i've ever had in my life. it was called
CREAM DI GELATO in Nice, France. That is exactly what I am enjoying in my profile pic here:
Onto the recipe... I really hope you try it.
This weekend I tried fried plantains. They were so good I immediately wondered how can I put them in a cake. So naturally I think, since it looks like a banana maybe it acts like a banana. I put it in my banana cake recipe and made my own version of plantain cake.
Their skin is thick and will turn dark brown when ripe. Just like a banana it has to be ripe for you to mash them for your recipe. Ripe plantains also give the most flavour. Plantains are much sweeter then bananas too (even though they contain less sugar), so when you use them use less sugar. I used about 1/4 cup less.
Like all cakes you can smell them while baking, but I've never had a scent so strong and so delicious smelling as this.
So far the reviews are good:
"this is delicious" - friend
"so moist" - same friend
"Can you taste the plantains?" - me, asking friend
"you can't tell the difference too much, I wouldn't have guessed right off the bat it was a plantain instead of banana, but it's really good" - other friend
Do I have to tell you this is suppose to be an rx prescription? I used royal icing to write on the cake, I like how it dries hard and a bit glossy.
Can you read this script?:
Leave a comment with your answer! I'm curious if I can imitate doctor handwriting well. (
Update: ya, it's too obvious. Everyone guessed right away.) I made this cake for Rosalind, my wonderful boss and the editor at
my day job. It's her last day today and she will definitely be missed. The illegible script is paying homage to her sometimes illegable editor's marks.
Letterpress invitations can be costly but are so beautiful. Letterpress printing is a traditional type of printing where text is created on a plate, reversed and raised, then literally inked and pressed into a sheet of paper.
Did I lose you?
Anyway It is pretty common and trendy for wedding invites. You should look into it.
Here is a baby shower invite I designed and printed on letterpress...
A bridal shower...
With my camera (or maybe just the lack of real photographer skill) you can't tell too much in these photos how the type is pressed on. Here is a good zoomed in shot to see the effect:
Of course i would go to the Bahamas and find cake.
Rum cake!
Bacardi has this line of
rum cakes that are delicious and exclusive to the Bahamas. The flavours are chocolate, piña colada and Bacardi rum (with walnuts). They are moist, not dense, and flavorful. Not to mention packed with the right amount of rum soaked coating. I wish I brought back more.
You can even get mini size cakes. I love these so much, so I stalked them and found
this site where you can order them. Not sure if they deliver to Canada though. There is a
recipe here too for rum sauce, something to try for a future post.
I may have to go back to the bahamas. You know, for cake.
Ps. Here is an actual pic from my vacay. We got lucky - the beach was all ours.
