let’s get fat and sassy
Had a nice dinner with Yuki tonight. I cooked. And then I got bored waiting for her and decided to make it nicer. And then I got even more bored and decided to take lots of pictures.
What you see in the foreground here is tea. To be specific, puer tea harvested from wild, natural growing [...]
Thanks to Gloria, Kim and Karen, I had a 40 dollar gift certificate to Crate and Barrel. Thanks to the tea party, I had a ravenous need for tea. (One day they’ll make that movie: “NEED FOR TEA: HYPER-INFUSED. You’re in too deep if you’re not steeped.”) So I combined the supply and the demand, [...]
I am at Karen and Spanky’s house. There are Street Fighter 4 sounds and egg beater sounds in the background. We have had a Tea Party, limited in size but not limited in scope. We don’t have pictures of our full spread, because food pretty much disappeared when it hit the table. Also, the table [...]
I take many pictures of cupcakes.
Cupcakes, that is.
Karen made “Better Than Sex” cupcakes with two different icings, and Jo had her cupcake decorating contest!
See the whole set here!
It’s cupcake weekend here in northern Virginia, thanks to Jo who, today, warmed up for her cupcake decorating contest that’ll take place tomorrow. I fully plan on spamming the internet with macro photos of the results afterwards. If they’re anything like all our … contests, I fully expect those cupcakes to entertain, terrify, and possibly [...]
I have a large family, and every year they cook up a big meal to celebrate Lunar New Year. This is the spread my family cooked.
It included some odd dishes, like the coca cola chicken. A modern update to an old Chinese recipe of fried chicken. This is simmered using a reduction of coke. Like, [...]