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Recipe source: Sherry Yard - The Secrets of BakingFor the dough (Detrempe):1 ounce fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon active dry yeast1/2 cup whole milk1/3 cup sugarzest of 1 orange, finely grated3/4 tsp ground cardamom1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped2 large eggs, chilled1/4 cup fresh orange juice3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 tsp saltFor the butter block (Beurrage):1/2 pound (

My word. I knew if the Daring Bakers pushed long enough, I would make friends with yeast. (At least, I'd hoped so.) My comfort level rose a bit with this pizza dough (especially since I've made it half a dozen times since), so I went into this challenge confident... at least as far as the yeast was concerned.I'll be honest, when Kelly and Ben announced this Danish braid, I did shiver in my flip-fl

This is my eighth month with the Daring Bakers and the challenge put forth this month was a Danish Braid chosen by Kelly Of Sass & Veracity and Ben of What’s Cookin’?.I had never attempted a laminated dough before so this was definitely a challenge for me. There is no mystery to the making a good dough..the only requirement being the understanding and handling of the ingredients that go into m

This month's Daring Baker Challenge was yeasted laminated dough. Or puff pastry with a touch of yeast. The challenge was selected by Kelly of Sass and Veracity and Ben of What's Cookin'?.I am a huge danish fan. There is a wonderful bakery around the corner from house named Federico's. They always have a lovely assortment of danishes. And at .85 cents a piece they are a steal! So you can only imagi

Well, it’s been three months since I joined The Daring Bakers and this month’s challenge had me reminiscing about my days back in culinary school.  June’s challenge involved making a laminated dough, then making a Danish braid from the dough, in addition to making a filling.  Seven years ago (!) when I was a pastry [...]

"The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight. "M. F. K. Fisher 'Danish Braid' from Sherry Yard’s 'The Secrets of Baking'Hello from a Daring Baker who is now a Danish Braider!! The day is finally here when this 'daring group of bakers' present their monthly challenge. This month, we were dared to bake a Dani

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Keeping with the "I Saw Red" Week Challenge, I stepped out of my Jamie Bubble all day and wore Red Lipstick! OK, Im a girl who won't leave the house without her make-up, Ive been that way for 25 years and I certainly won't change now. I am a Brown kinda Gal when it comes to Make-up and especially Lipstick. Well, When the Sass Mouth pulled our Make-up Drawer out yesterday and it fell crashing to

This months Daring Bakers chalange is Opéra cake, and it's dedicated to Barbara from winosandfoodies.com. This time, I decided to keep it simple, and not alter the recipe in any way.This recipe is based on Opéra Cake recipes in Dorie Greenspan’s Paris Sweets and Tish Boyle and Timothy Moriarty’s Chocolate Passion.For the Joconde:6 large egg whites, at room temperature30 g granulated sugar225

[Quick shout-out: Happy Birthday, Mom!!]Growing up, that is what my friends and I used to call going to museums or the theater: getting culture. We'd go, we'd appreciate the arts or learn some history and come away smarter (or so we thought.) This cake certainly made ME smarter, and while it doesn't look the way it should, it was quite the learning experience. This is why I love being a Daring Bak

This was my second month participating in The Daring Bakers and this month’s challenge was quite the um…challenge as we were to make a version of the classic French dessert, Opera cake. What is Opera cake? It’s tough to find the origins of Opera cake. Some say it all began in 1903, when Louis Clichy premiered [...]

The Four Lovely Hostesses chose the Opéra Cake as the challenge for May. I knew not what that cake meant..According to them, "it's an extremely elegant and polished French dessert that is believed to have been created around the beginning of the 1900s. Many people credit a gentleman by the name of Louis Clichy with inventing the cake and that's why it's sometimes referred to as Clichy Cake."An O

Back with the Daring Bakers for an all new creation - Cheesecake Pops!! When I saw this recipe I was both excited and apprehensive. I'd never tried this before and as eggs are not really my favourite food, mostly because they don't agree with me, I decided to experiment. I halved the recipe and dropped the eggs altogether! The result was fabulous. The cheesecake turned out delicious - could not re

"Sufis are lovers, great lovers.In fact, in the whole history of human consciousness,more daring lovers than Sufishave never existed,because they are the only oneswho have turned Godinto their Beloved."- Osho -"Rajneesh" Chandra Mohan Jain(December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990)from . The Grass Grows by Itself .image. osho, a sufi in heart, in his dervish attire# Resource: E-Books by Osho # Relate

If you haven't read or heard about the Superhero exhibit, now you'll know!The Costume Institute celebrated the power and the glory of superhero fashion. It's totally the fashion event of the year."The superhero is really the ultimate metaphor of fashion," declares Andrew Bolton, curator of "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," the Costume Institute's dynamic new exhibit (Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 7-September 1). "It's about the transformation of identity through fashion, through clothing, through one's appearance."The exhibit is sponsored by Italian Grand Couturier, Giorgio Armani. No doubt that this event would land in the pages of Vogue, and Coco Rocha is Anna Wintour's chosen one.Power Plant Batman's enemy, the supervillainess Poison Ivy, has a toxic touch and a lethal kiss.Nina Ric

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This month Daring bakers chalange is hosted by Elle from Feeding My Enthusiasms and Deborah from Taste and Tell. They chose Cheesecake Pops from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey by Jill O’Connor. It was my first cheesecake and I loved it. And the pops were fun to make too, even though I couldn't make some funny shapes like I did last time with my piggies.500 g cream cheese at room temperature1 cups sugar1/8 cup all-purpose flour1/8 tsp salt3 small eggs1 egg yolk1 tsp pure vanilla extract1/8 cup heavy creamboiling water as neededlollipop sticks (I used bamboo sticks)Assorted decorations such as chopped nuts, colored jimmies, crushed peppermints, mini chocolate chips, sanding sugars, dragees)Position oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325&degF. Set some water to boil.In a la

Note: French version is on La cuisine de BabethRare cancer awareness: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaHi my dear fellow food lover friends, today is the day the secret society: Daring Bakers reveals April challenge. We, the Daring Bakers, prepared with love a very cute surprise for you: cheese cake pops. I must admit I was never found of cheese cake while living in California and was never touched by the French cheese cake frenzy trend. But as a docile member I tried this month recipe. I just replaced the vanilla extract by real vanilla, and it's a real taste booster, a little je ne sais quoi that makes me fall in love with this cheese cake recipe.I'm leaving tomorrow to visit my brother in Manhattan so I will give an other chance to American cheese cakes. I will keep you posted o

The Daring Bakers are back again this month with guess what Cheesecake Pops...the choice of Elle and Deborah What you need are5 8-oz. packages cream cheese at room temperature2 cups sugar¼ cup all-purpose flour¼ teaspoon salt5 large eggs2 egg yolks2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract¼ cup heavy creamBoiling water as neededThirty to forty 8-inch lollipop sticks1 pound chocolate, finely chopped – you can use all one kind or half and half of dark, milk, or white (Alternately, you can use 1 pound of flavored coatings, also known as summer coating, confectionary coating or wafer chocolate – candy supply stores carry colors, as well as the three kinds of chocolate.)2 tablespoons vegetable shortening(Note: White chocolate is harder to use this way, but not impossible)Assorted decorations such

"My mouth is a happy place"Pat Conroy Colourful & delicious...Cheesecake Pops!It's the DARING BAKERS time of the month again...& each challenge means breaking new ground. With never a dull moment, & now even a new site for the Db's, we're all back to it again. Posting today, there are gonna be LOADS of Cheesecake Pops POPPING up all over the net. TASTEFUL ENTHUSIASM? Yes indeed!These are just the perfect party poppers for the summer, delightful to look at, a novel challenge this month...hosted by Elle @ Feeding My Enthusiasms & Deborah @ Taste and Tell this month. The April challenge call was for CHEESECAKE POPS!! To tell you the truth, it was the first I had ever heard of these delightful mouthfuls! You can find the recipe at here & here. En route to the freezer...A

Last month I joined a food challenge group called The Daring Bakers. Each month, there is a specified dessert recipe and everyone is given guidelines on how they need to follow it and any exceptions. This was my first month participating. The recipe was for cheesecake pops, and you can find this [...]

I need a Stairmaster. I need one now. Because I am so addicted to these cheesecake pops! Who knew! I was actually rather "baking-shy" about this recipe. I had never made a "real" cheesecake before and I wasn't sure how well this was going to turn out.I probably shouldn't have learned!These cheesecake pops are so incredibly rich and heavenly! Oh my word! So good! They do take some time, so you need to plan ahead before making them, but they are worth it.This actually turned out to be one of the easiest recipes I've tried as a member of Daring Baker's! Here are the changes I made: I halved the original recipe, I used sweet rice flour in place of the wheat flour, and I used additional vanilla extract for flavoring. Next time I make these pops I will reduce the amount of sugar used in the chee

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I have been watching a TFC now, a online service of ABS CBN for you to watch some of their TV shows online. And recently, I have been captured by the beauty of a Brazilian, Filipino named Mariana Del Rio, a 16 years old Brazilian model and looking forward to be an actor in the Philippine television. I am so fascinated of how beautiful and daring she was, I love her face and simplicity. Now she had been a commercial model and had been rumored to be the caused of marriage break up of actor Cesar Montano and his wife Sunshine Cruz. Well, it just a rumored and I don't think it is true, though. Well, she's beautiful and absolutely no men can get away from her charming, pretty eyes. She's also a commercial model of some famous Philippine product now, such as feminine wash, corned beef and

“Superstarunna maasu, Devayaninna newsu” is one of the ‘punch’ dialogues delivered by Nayantara in Sathyam. The stunning beauty, who is donning the role of a TV reporter, has been made to deliver more such one-liners that could make the audiences go crazy Nayantara plays Devayani, a daring reporter and a smart professional. She gets to deliver the punch dialogues which have become the trade mark of mass heroes.The film has eight children, who are very close to Nayantara. All these kids have nicknames of their choice for her. Director Rajasekar had a tough time to choose these names. He first took a list of around fifty nicknames and selected the eight best names from the list. After a long gap, Sudha Chandran will act; her role is as Vishal’s mother in this film, which is

Hello Everyone,I am delighted to announce that I have successfully completed my very first Daring Bakers Challenge. I have been a silent admirer of this great blogging community since I began my blog in December 2007. Baking and I have a long and happy history. I began baking fairly regularly when I was in high school - cakes, biscuits, pastry, bread! My love affair with baking continued well into my University years, when the demands of career and travel left me with little time to boil an egg, let alone bake. Slowly, yet steadily now and with much encouragement from my husband :) I am returning to this great passion - and so I welcome Daring Bakers into my life!!Here's my experience with the very first challenge. A couple of weeks before the challenge was posted, I ran across Dorie Green

Finally, a Daring Baker's Challenge this gluten free, ginger lemon girl could handle! They really believe in a serious challenge every month, those pesky Daring Baker's! But I love it! It's fun to be given a secret challenge once a month to bake something that I most likely have never baked before! This month's challenge, hosted by Morven, is Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake.Can we say SUGAR HIGH?Oh my goodness. Yes!Actually, as much as I love sweet desserts, Hershey's chocolate bars, and chocolate icing... I just can't take things SUPER sweet. I really can't. And this cake IS SO super sweet!!It's a beautiful cake and it was relatively easy to convert to gluten free, but next time I will cut the sugar in half... or more. I also need to work on how to change the consistency of the cake

After last month's bread-baking debacle, I was so excited to see that Morven chose Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake, sourced from her much-loved Baking book. Why? For starters, because there isn't any yeast (ha!), but mostly because it was recently my birthday, and this cake would serve as a lovely birthday cake. And! I made cakes from Dorie's book for both my mom and my husband's birthdays, so I wanted to complete the arc. And there wasn't any yeast.I wish there was such a thing as taste-o-vision or something, because I wish all of you non-DBers, or those of you that aren't invited over when a DBer makes their challenge, could try this cake. It is seriously the most pillowy-soft cake I have ever put in my mouth (and believe you me, I have put A LOT of cake in said mouth.) I don't even

This month's Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Morven and she chose A Perfect Party Cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from My Home to Yours. Actually, I was thrilled to make a cake as a challenge since my birthday is this month and wanted to make something different this year (my mother and I make the same cake over & over again for every occasion).For the Cake:2 1/4 cups cake flour1 Tbsp baking powder1/2 tsp salt1 1/4 cups whole milk or buttermilk4 large egg whites1 1/2 cups sugar2 tsp grated lemon zest1 stick (8 tablespoons or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature1/2 tsp pure lemon extractFor the Buttercream:1 cup sugar4 large egg whites3 sticks (12 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (from 2 large lemons)1 tsp pure vanilla extractFor

The host for this month of the Daring Baker's Challenge is Morven and the challenge for the month of March was to bake a Perfect Party Cake by Dorie Greenspan .It is a white cake flavoured with lemon, and I love anything lemony and followed the recipe..though there was a choice to experiment.The filling was a lemon-buttercream filling that was spread on top of the raspberry preserves layer.The frosting was buttercream to which blueberry preserves were added. These were then sprinkled with Chocolate strands by my toddler of course who wanted to help. She was specific that it stay the way she decorated and even wanted a slice of it ...she got her share of the cake...Since this was picked by the host specifically for its potential of bearing a personal stamp, My stamp was a topping of carame

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "Robin WilliamsGimme a layered cake to make & I'm in 7th heaven!As you can obviously guess from my blog posts, I love baking cakes. I have Morven @ Food Art & Random Thoughts to thank for posting such a wonderful challenge..Dorie Greenspan's 'Perfect Party Cake'. After my first 2 challenges I was pretty much on shaky grounds (what with LMPs & French loaves), I must admit I procrastinated even going to check on March's challenge! Crumbs...by the time I checked, had already begun work on our anniversary cake (Chocolate Orange Cloud Gateau; nice one) so felt like kicking myself! The next opportunity was grabbed with both hands & I marched into a cake baking frenzy!COFFEE stamped all over it!As Morven, the large-hearted lady sai

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Freelance illustrator and papercraft designer Alexander Shen is our feature for today. He runs a site called Wandering Panda Comics where you can pick on his thoughts, illustration artwork, games, and of course comics. The box-type paper toy pictured above is called Daring Diver Donnie and is availalbe for free...

Betsy Rose Bikini pattern is very colorful and provides medium to full coverage Whether you are a hot vixen looking for a new sexy bikini or the ultra sexy vamp looking to expose as much well toned skin as possible, the new bikinis and swimwear for 2008 have somthing for everybody. With Spring Break underway, summer only a few months away and, of course, those winter get aways to the sun, its time to look at the hot new looks in swimwear and bikinis for 2008. One of the trends in designer swimsuits, this year, are vivid colorful patterns. One of our favorite swimwear designers is Elena Pompei. Launched in 2000, this designer swimsuits collection takes its inspiration from the world of colors with each exclusive print pattern creating a completely different look - fr

Several years ago Julie was driving back to visit her family with her children. The oldest was in the third grade. She pulled out a yellow legal pad and announced that they were going to make a list. This got Julie's attention. After all, it was spring and Christmas was many months away. Julie inquired as to what the list was for. Her daughter announced that it was a list of things they wanted in a husband for their mom. (Sorry, Oprah, this little one was way ahead of you on love lists!)Her younger daughter started off with things like money and a nice car. With all the wisdom of a third grader, her older daughter said, "No, he first has to be a Christian." And then, after getting the younger girl more focused, they moved on from there.Recently, Julie's girls (now both teenagers and the ol

Finally! I am a Daring Baker! And for my first challenge - it's Julia Child's French Bread. Fifteen pages of recipe and I've only baked bread once before. I even went to our country house, cause that's where the good oven is. I calculated that if I started at 2 am the bread would probably finished at around noon and I'll have good light for taking pictures. But, alas, the outside temperature was -7°C, and maintaining proper room temperature using stove was extremely difficult. So, naturally, I had problems with the rises. But bread tasted great, it reminded me of Bosnian somun. After I came back to Belgrade I gave it another try. For the recipe visit this month's hosts Mary and Sara.

Yep, you read that correctly. Once printed, this recipe was 18 pages long! It had 13 steps and took 12 hours for me to produce the two lovely loaves you see above. At first, I thought our hostesses (hostessi?), Mary and Sara, had lost their minds. However, what's not to like about trying something challenging on for size - particularly if it's a Julia Child recipe!! I didn't join the Daring Bakers for nothin'! 'Cept, if you've come from the Daring Bakers Blogroll, you've no doubt noticed that my boules don't look like the others. This is because I'm an idiot, but I will explain. :)I printed the recipe and reviewed it (repeatedly) to make sure I had everything I needed. I got started after a late and lazy breakfast. I'd made it to step 3 by the time Dave left for his afternoon Caps game. I

Important: don't forget to check: Help beat sarcomaHere again I will be all about the secret society: the Daring Bakers to name it.February challenge was a great one (but aren't they all great and challenging anyway?). This month recipe was the Julia Child French bread. Well yes the greatest, the goddess of cooking: Julia Child you read me correctly. When I recipe my secret mission I was reading -no kidding- her biography: Appetite for life. The other very challenging part of the mission was: French bread!!! As you may know I'm 100% French and living in France, so I know a lot about good and bad breads.Our hostesses for February are: Mary from "the sour dough" and Sara from "I like to cook"Here my bread:and the recipe:Pain Francais (French Bread)(From Mastering the Art of French Cooki

"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven." Yiddish ProverbJulia Child's French Loaf...The 29th is finally here...it's been such a looooooooong wait!Presenting this month's Daring Bakers challenge...'Julia Child's French Loaf'...hosted by Breadchicks Mary (The Sour Dough) & Sara (I Like to Cook). Did it evoke some response or what? There were pages & pages of comments (126 at last count) - quite a few understandably anxious & panicky (like me) & others over the moon (???). I procrastinated for long, very unlike me, because baking & me are mutually inseparable. Then read up posts & updates & websites...finally got some gentle inspiration from Dharm. The mind was made up. On the 12th of Feb DH was off to Dubai for a day & I had

This Daring Baker's Challenge for this month was hosted by Bread Chick Mary of The Sour Dough and Sara of I Like to Cook. Their choice was a Pain Francais (French Bread)There I sat reading everybody’s feedback regarding their bread baking and its aftermath in the DB private blog..Got me all worked up! Should I, shouldn’t I was all I would murmur each time I saw the printed recipe.An evening while I had some time on me…I got into kneading, yeasting and so forth..Left it to rise….it stayed flat even after 10 hours..blamed it on the yeast, the flour, my stars and everything..checked the following morning…it hadn’t risen an inch….threw it out.. started all over again ….the dough rose well above the 10 ½ cup mark in less than an hour and a half… having cleared my first obstac

Wow, this is one daring dress! Big plus for trying new things, but could that be a baby bump? A train in back is nice at times, it's just hard to tell if she's wearing shoes. She probably cleaned the whole carpet for everyone behind her, dragging that dress along.source:://www.yahoo.com

The infamous Dave Jackson was apprehended late last night after spending the last several months on the lamb, terrorizing local school children and elderly Polish women.The 6'9" Jackson, age 34, first walked on the wrong side of the road in early November. The scene was the a local bowling alley. Jackson had just finished bowling a 299 game and was seen emotionally distraught after narrowly missing the final pin, costing him a perfect game. Dave decided to exact revenge upon the bowling alley in the only way his sick criminal mind could come up with. He decided to rob the alley's crane machine. Jackson made off with a gunnysack's full of stuffed animals. Security camera footage shows Jackson reaching into the machine and pulling out nearly every last adorable critter.Fortunately, no

Lemon tarts were a favourite and I have a grand aunt who is in her late seventies who made this for me whenever I visited her once a year. So when I read this month’s challenge I was all excited but pushed it to the very last week of the month.This month’s challenge hosted by Jen was a Lemon Meringue Pie. The challenge requested for a lemon filling and a meringue topping. A mountainous topping, when cooked briefly browns the outside and is a delicious covering for most pies..loved by many but not by me. A pie usually consists of a case with a deep filling and then covered by pastry, whipped cream, meringue and so on. A tart on the other hand has a shallow case and filling and the latter is rarely covered entirely. The pastry shell of the crust dough was delicious and I flavoured it wit

I would definitely call this Daring Baker's Challenge a challenge in the gluten-free and sugar-free baking world!I joined Daring Baker's in December, but the month was so crazy, I didn't get a chance to Daringly Bake until now!So the challenge this month was to make a Lemon Meringue Pie. To be honest, as much as I love lemons... I'm not a big fan of lemon meringue pies! They are too tart for my taste and they always seem to get soggy! I don't like soggy pies!The biggest challenge for me was that I was trying to make this pie sugar free! Gluten free was no problem! I converted the pastry recipe and it turned out an amazing crust! I'll actually share that recipe with you today... BUT the lemon filling just threw up once cut!I thoughtfully pondered over what sweetener to use for the lemon fil

Note: French version of this post is on La cuisine de Babeth, here.The end of the month smells like contest in the kitchen and yes, you smelled it right: it's Daring Bakers day! January's contest was a great one, especially for a girl with such a sweet tooth like me, it was a delightI was so excited to bake a lemon meringue pie.Well, I must share with you that I was a bit too excited and my first batch as shown below was not a success. Distracted as I am, I forgot to turn off the grill on my oven. The pie burned on top and didn't cook at all.I didn't give up and went back to my kitchen. So lo and behold: the great, the only: Daring Bakers' Lemon Meringue Pie!Here the recipe:Lemon Meringue PieMakes one 10-inch (25 cm) pieFor the Crust:¾ cup (180 mL) cold butter; cut into ½-inch (1.2 cm)

Daring Clerk Attacks Crooks It began like any other day at an Indiana state Jewelry shop. The store owner and her employees opened up the shop as usual. Customers started to pour in the store and everything seemed normal until noon. A

Brazen and Daring Robbery A local convenience store in Stewart, Florida, is the target of a Brazen Robbery. A young man is seen on surveillance footage as he leaps over the checkout counter towards a stunned clerk. He grabs roughly five

I’m a few days late with my DB post this month, but I got it done in time for Christmas Eve. This month our daring assignment got a holiday themed recipe: Yule Log. This is one of those recipes that may make you cringe a little bit when you first look at it; a cake, frosting, [...]

My second challenge. Kept postponing it till the very last minute. Done with it and here's the proof..It did look nice but the pics say otherwise :((((Anyway, I did receive wonderful compliments, so there!!!)This was a challenge put forth by Lis and Ivonne and the log was ideal for the month of December. Here goes the recipe:Yule Log (Serves 12) Sources: Perfect Cakes by Nick Malgieri and The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Dessert Cake should be stored in a cool, dry place. Leftovers should be refrigeratedWhat is required• A genoise cake (using the recipe below) • A coffee buttercream frosting (using the recipe below)• Meringue or Marzipan mushrooms (using the recipes below)Plain Genoise3 large eggs3 large egg yolkspinch of salt¾ cup of sugar½ cup cake flour - spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off (also known as cake & pastry flour)¼ cup cornstarchone 10 x 15 inch jelly-roll pan that has been buttered and lined with parchment paper and then buttered again1.Set a rack

I guarantee "Yule Log" this recipe! Okay, that was pretty much lame. All I can say is it's 2:28am, cut a girl some slack. (just kidding) Ivonne and Lis are our hostesses this month and have chosen the Yule Log as our December challenge. This was a great recipe! I had a lot of fun baking this cake. The cake was soo chocolate-y and light and the coffee buttercream ...was too die for. All and all a great cake. I think this is the first time I had no worries whatsoever about the challenge or recipe. The recipe is from Nick Malgeiri's book "Perfect Cakes", which I own, and had baked just about every recipe in it.Since I was not going to be home for the holidays, I decided to reward one of my favorite taste testers and give him the cake. D. is the son of my friend I. He is the cutest taste tester that I have ever had! D. is always happy to taste test and critiques like a pro. He never says yummy or good. He always uses words like "heavenly", "light as cloud" or "it sings". I think we have

Why doesn't Supergirl wear pants? The skirt isn't very functional. Anyway, besides being a very odd pilot for a New Doom Patrol series, these issues feature–as usual–some wonderful little moments, but are a tad disappointing overall. There's a lot of good, superhero comic stuff in here (from Supergirl's well-meaning, but meddling friends to Linda Danvers happy to have to do real work in class, something Supergirl wouldn't have to bother with) and Infantino's art is really growing on me for the series. Maybe not the specifics–Linda Danvers has, at latest count, four romantic interests and Infantino basically gives them different colored hair–but his handling of Supergirl is excellent. Even though she's in the little skirt, there's nothing cheesecake about it… and it doesn't make you feel creepy reading it, like Loeb's series did (or looking at it, I've never actually tried reading it, just paging through it in the shop to make fun of

The cape.  It’s a controversial piece of clothing, and many are scared to even consider it, but look how cute this one is from Nordstrom. It’s not frightening at all. The dark colors keep it subtle, and the shape–with the cinched waist–is so flattering.  It looks very professional and put-together with the pencil skirt here, but could also prove its point with some jeans on the weekend. It’s very Tippy Hedren in The Birds, and how can that be a bad thing? Nordstrom Wool Cape, $129 (was $189) cape, coats, good deals, jackets, nordstrom, sale

With these two issues (actually only with issue #7), Kupperberg adopts a new format for Supergirl. Instead of (essentially) a two-parter ending on a breather (like #5 did), #7 ends on a cliffhanger… so I had to decide if I wanted to keep reading or split them up. Obviously, I split them up. It really pisses me off–I’ll try to get back to the first of the two issues and the first half of the second issue in a second, but I’m ranting here–because the lead in to the cliffhanger in #7 was freaking awesome. I mean, it was nothing more complicated than Linda Danvers going to a jazz festival with some roommates, but it did leagues for establishing Supergirl as a character… Linda Danvers wanted to do stuff, Supergirl wants to enjoy stuff she otherwise could not. There’s that tripartite aspect to her identity (Supergirl, Kara, Linda Danvers) and I barely thought about it before these issues, when she thinks of herself as Kara, then as Linda Danvers (

"We were girls in the days before the Web, cell phones, or even voicemail".This is the opening sentence of The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz which immediately grabbed and held me to this book until the end. I was one of those girls back before the Web, cell phones, voicemail, and even CDs! Reading this book is like reliving one's childhood back when you played outside all day instead of sitting indoors. Playing video games really didn't interest us for long and every girl knew how to play hopscotch. The idea of staying indoors was like a punishment and you could usually find most of us trying to sneak outside whether it was snowing, hailing, or even sleeting!The pages of this book are filled with awesome and daring things that every girl and even grown women should learn. There are so many great and fun activities that I honestly can't even choose a favorite! I smiled the entire time I was reading The Daring Book For Girls which made for an instant

Look at me. Only my second month in the Daring Bakers, and already I'm a day late!! I feel terrible about it, but I simply couldn't fit it in yesterday (first day at the new job followed by a hockey game led to a really late night). I know, I know, I totally should have written it up early, and that's what I'll do going forward... I honestly meant to on Sunday... but then was one with the couch in an amazing bout of mopiness... From this day on, I will be a better DB! (Especially considering how badly I wanted to be a part of this marvelous group!!) This go around, the lovely Tanna chose for us a Tender Potato Bread. I don't know about you, but I LOVE potato bread! I was so happy to tackle this challenge!!Now, I'm no bread maker. I'm frightened of yeast. I try to hide my feelings from the yeast, but its like a dog.. or a bear... or those scary jumping spiders... it smells my fear. However, being a Daring Baker means fighting that fear, forging on, taking charge, trying something

This month the Daring Bakers take on the world of bread. Our host this month is Tanna of My Kitchen In Half Cups. She chose for us a potato bread recipe from Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour & Tradition Around the World by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. Thanks for hosting Tanna! On to the bread.Wow! Was this dough sticky! I just kind of plopped it into the bread pans and called it a day. Did I mention this was my first ever-yeasted baked good? By the time, I wrangled the dough into the pans I so was over this whole baking your own bread. Then a little bit of time goes by and this wonderful smell starts to fill the kitchen. People start to ask …what are you baking? I respond bread …potato bread. By the time the loaves come out of the oven I have an audience. Everyone “oohs” and “aahs” over fresh bread being taken out of the oven. Before I can even say …stop! Do not eat that, I still need to photograph the bread! It was too late; butter, pumpkin butter, and sliced

The wait is finally over.. Baked the below weeks back and since all of us from the daring bakers post on the same day..I had to wait until this very day!!My first challenge at Daring Bakers. Boy, was I glad to see what was in store.. This month’s challenge as per Tanna of “My Kitchen in Half Cups” was tender potato bread! She had chosen this recipe, for its myriad ways shaping the dough and provides oven times and temperatures for those variations.href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_9dnB4tJVh2g/R0wV6bRSv4I/AAAAAAAAAY8/tgdWjRgrraU/s1600-h/orange.jpg"> Wow, I have never baked bread ever ever before, always wanted try it though…but never got down to doing it…I had mixed feelings of whether I would be able to go ahead and knead, let it rise and bake and or just sit on the sidelines !!!Anyway, I decided a day to bake, put my instincts together and plunged into it though had to keep my toddler from fiddling with the dough et al. which was already a sticky mess. Here is a peek into my bre

The Gang has to win as the silliest supervillain team (at least in my recent memory). I think there are five members, they wear brightly colored outfits, and they all have different “powers.” I’m not sure about the powers, because it seems like their suits give them–for the most part–those powers. They’re from Chicago’s South Side and I guess they’re trying to get ahead through a life of crime. All I can think is, does Geoff Johns know about this team? Brad Meltzer, maybe? In late 1990s, when I was working in downtown Chicago, an eight year-old black kid got beaten to death for crossing the wrong street on the South Side (by, like, white adults) and I had a South Side co-worker who defended the principle to everyone… not the extent, but the principle. I’m sure Meltzer could have the Gang rape and murder the Wonder Twins and could sell it to eight year-olds… whatever. So, in other words, the second issue of two is kind of lousy. The Gang’s rea

Brave bystanders rushed into the flames shooting out of a Mattapan triple-decker yesterday to rescue screaming residents trying to escape a blaze that left 14 people injured, including a toddler in critical condition. “We thought, ‘We have to help these people,’ ” said passer-by Donald Flynn, 28, of Quincy.

I don't usually do reviews on this blog, saving them instead for my reviews-only site. But I don't want you to think of this as a review but a sincere plea for you to go out and buy The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz for any of the girls in your life. I had so much fun reading The Daring Book. Chicky is only 2 and a half and far too young for this book yet (I

Near as I can tell, Supergirl #3 finishes off the story started in the first issue, which probably means I could have–and should have–just read the first three instead of one-by-one. Not in the modern, “Part I of III,” easy to trade way of thinking, but in that old school primary plot continues and then resolves, while subplots get bigger. That said, I’m not sure what really needed resolving in this issue. It’s all build up for future events–whether it’s Supergirl’s job (for a seedy professor) or John Ostrander… sorry, Johnny… getting his own job for a bunch of corporate crooks–with the most immediate events being a big fight scene. If I remember the previous issue correctly, it featured Supergirl fighting a villain who could actually inflict damage. Here she is fighting a different (but connected) villain who can also–surprise, surprise–inflict damage (though less than the last one). So some tease and some useless fight sc

“For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the no-boys-allowed guide to adventure.” The Daring Book for Girls hit me like a ton of bricks…but in a good way. I had heard about The Dangerous Book for Boys on NPR, and the idea that Buchanan and Peskowitz had written a chick version really excited me. Maybe this makes me shallow, [oh well] but the first thing that I fell in love with was the cover. It’s glittery and sturdy and it made me want to open it up and see what the book was all about. Also, there’s an “old school” feeling to the book. I can imagine this book on a 1950’s teen girl’s book shelf. The point is that it’s wholesome and that’s not a bad thing. It’s actually refreshing. Have you always wanted to know how to whistle with two fingers? Check out page 25. Want to know how to build a campfire? Page 127 please. Buchanan and Peskowitz also included Robert’s Rules

Do you know what it feels like to have 200+ new friends? Friends that ALL have similar interests? Similarly-interested friends that are supportive and hilarious and real and dreamy? If you're part of the Daring Bakers, you know it feels! I have been welcomed in as part of the October Class, and I couldn't be happier about it! I encourage you to go through that blogroll. Sure, you'll see a TON of Bostini Cream pies today, but stick around, each and every site has something scrumptious for you! (I get to post a DB badge now, woohoo!)Right, onto this challenge. The lovely Mary at Alpineberry, Hostess with the Mostest for October, chose for us this lovely Bostini Cream Pie. My first reaction was, "Huh? What's this? A typo??!?!" Not at all, my friends. The best way I can describe it is: The bostini cream pie is the boston cream pie's daintier cousin. Take one bowl of luscious vanilla custard, top with a lighter than air orange chiffon cake, smother sassily in chocolate.... it's ok, yo

Whew! What a dare! That’s right this month marks my first entry as a Daring Baker. Mary of Alpineberry was our lovely host this month. She chose Bostini Cream Pie for our monthly dare. Yum! Then fear and anxiety set in. First, I have never made a successful chiffon cake (until now). Oh, I had my worries and doubts. I was so sure it was not going to work out for me; that I bought 5 dozen eggs and a half gallon of heavy cream. Everything worked out in the first run through so, if you need to borrow a pint of cream or a dozen eggs stop on by.The chiffon cake is unbelievable; it’s like rich angel food cake with a hint of orange. Mmm! Like the chiffon cake, I had never made pastry cream that had to set either. This is where it got tricky. The problem was that I had a ton of ramekins all the same size, but I was not sure what size they were. (I ended up with 16 tiny Bostini Cream Pies). I knew that I was going to be giving away all but two of the Bostini’s. My plan was to place the cre

The second issue runs shorter (there’s a Lois Lane backup I’ll cover at a future date) and–no, I’m not just saying it because writer Paul Kupperberg commented on the first issue–it’s a serious improvement. It’s a resolution to the previous issue’s cliffhanger, supporting cast establishing and the intro to the next issue (with another cliffhanger, of course). The first half of the issue is a fight scene resolving the previous issue’s cliffhanger. I never would have thought Carmine Infantino would do a dynamic fight scene, but he really does. He has one particularly nice panel duo in which Supergirl punches the villain from the bottom left of one panel to the bottom right of the other. It’s a really nice sequence. The writing also helps. While I’m not a fan of the villain, Kupperberg’s Supergirl characterization would seem like it was Sumerian if it showed up today. She’s confident, intelligent, brave and get believably angry at times. Obviously, since

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I was in Pennsylvania to see a Phish concert once. The venue was somewhere between a cow pasture and the edge of the freakin’ planet. I'm talking about a barren wasteland of pastures, rolling hills, and inbred people are far as the eye could see. For some reason, Phish had decided to invite thousands of horny, scantily clad people pumped full of psychedelics to this god-forsaken place to hold a concert. I was all over it like Dr. Phil in a room filled with under aged Thai schoolchildren. My buddies and I camped out, and got horribly intoxicated before the show began. I'm talking 5-alarm Betty Ford blasted here. I don't much remember the concert, but I do remember meeting this absurdly busty girl named Star who liked looking at me. Star was evidently a local girl who had few life goals other than abusing substances and watching Phish. She ranged in age anywhere from 18 to 25, and the sheer girth of her fun bags ranged anywhere from ginormous to unbelievably colossal .

Going back to 1980s, thought-balloon filled, endlessly omnisciently narrated comic books is a bit of a chore. It shouldn’t be–a well-written thought-balloon or a well-written omniscient narrator should be fine… and maybe they are. Except Paul Kupperberg is annoying when he does the second–this issue of Supergirl is constant, explanatory narration and it’s exhausting to read. The thought-balloons aren’t bad. Here’s the problem, giving Kupperberg all the benefit of artistic doubt. This issue is supposed to set Supergirl up for her titular daring new adventures, which requires a recap and an establishing. The recap is handled poorly… it doesn’t need to be here. It’s a number one, an “electrifying” one if a person were to believe the cover, so conventional wisdom says it needs the origin recap. Except Kupperberg’s Supergirl is not Kara Zor-El, she’s Linda Danvers and, at most, Linda Danvers needs a recap of saying goodbye to her foster parents

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Here’s one of the last pastries I dared to make in our San Diego kitchen before our east coast relocation. This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was to construct a strawberry Bavarian with a strawberry mirror glaze. Like any DB, I accepted the challenge. The cake wasn’t too hard to make and only comprised of a few basic parts to assemble: genoise, strawberry Bavarian cream, and a strawberry mirror glaze. Probably the hardest part of the whole cake was the Bavarian; although it may seem daunting to some, it really isn’t much of a hassle either. This cake turned out to look very pretty, but made it on neither the eater’s nor my top ten lists for cake flavors. The eater reported that the Bavarian cream was the weak link. It was a bit gelatinous and heavy for her taste and made up too large a portion of the cake. I, on the other hand, thought the flavor was good, but the texture of the Bavarian just wasn’t as good as I hoped. I was expecting more of a mo

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The Daring Sisters, also known as Rude Women is Korean drama series from MBC. Watching this series reminds me of Desperate Housewives. The story is revolving around eroding relationships and marital infidelity of marital women a successful dentist named Mi Joo, has to raise her kid alone after her divorce. After marrying her first love, she discovered he was having an affair with a dentist. Her answer? She moves to America and after years of struggling, comes home with a new life and newfound strength and independence. Then a new man knocks at the door, and the game starts once again for her. The series is starring Jung Woong In, Yu Ho Jung and Lee Ki Woo. Buy this DVD on YesAsia Korean drama

The Daring Sisters, also known as Rude Women is Korean drama series from MBC. Watching this series reminds me of Desperate Housewives. The story is revolving around eroding relationships and marital infidelity of marital women a successful dentist named Mi Joo, has to raise her kid alone after her divorce. After marrying her first love, she discovered he was having an affair with a dentist. Her answer? She moves to America and after years of struggling, comes home with a new life and newfound strength and independence. Then a new man knocks at the door, and the game starts once again for her. The drama series is starring Jung Woong In, Yu Ho Jung, Lee Ki Woo. Buy this DVD on YesAsia -

Pop star Britney Spears, who was reportedly in talks with magazine Vanity Fair to pose naked for the cover photo, is reconsidering her decision. According to sources, Britney wants to do it right – a real dare bare exposure that will stage her fantastic comeback. Britney's representatives have confirmed that she for now will appear fully clothed on the October issue of the magazine. She will go for big bang at the right time. Britney, who is due to give birth later this year, has also contacted her record label, Jive Records, to discuss recording a new album, in order to stage a comeback, reports Fox News.

Left: Regine VelasquezRight: Piolo PascualMukhang maganda ang samahan ng Star Cinema at Viva Films sa paggawa ng kanilang mga pelikula. Most recent ay ang comedy flick na Ang Cute Ng Ina Mo ni Ai-Ai delas Alas. Susunod na rito ang currently sinu-shooting naman nina Piolo Pascual at Regine Velasquez na super-long overdue na. Nauna pa itong naiplano sa Till I Met You na huling pelikulang ginawa ni Regine, kung saan nakatambal niyang muli si Robin Padilla. Anyway, smooth lang umano ang shooting ng Sana Ikaw Na, ang final title ng Regine-Piolo movie na mula pa rin sa joint venture ng Star Cinema at Viva Films. Si Bb. Joyce Bernal ang direktor ng movie, na ilang beses nang nakagawa ng movie with Regine na pawang mga hits. Say ni Piolo on Regine, "I never thought na si Regine pala ay down to earth... Masarap siyang kasama. In this movie, we had more time to talk and mag-bonding." Unang nagkatrabaho sina Piolo at Regine sa isang episode ng Maalaala Mo Kaya ng ABS-CBN at ngayon pa nga lang

Bobbi Brown Tawny Shimmer Brich & Lip Kit The word shimmer has been known to give me goosebumps. Not the good kind, but the kind you get when you are about to jump off a plane and you were just informed that your parachute might or might not be working. Not that this has ever happened to me, and I imagine it hasn’t happened to you either, but I think it is a good display of my unadulterated terror of all things that are meant to add shimmer (the Kevyn Aucoin liquid white shimmer called to me simply because it was associated with, well, Kevyn Aucoin). I was seduced by the lip colours in the Bobbi Brown Tawny Shimmer Brick & Lip Kit. None of the colours are outlandish and they amplify my existing lip colours(yes, this is plural because I have two-toned lips). My lips look moist, natural, and slightly deeper in colour. The colours are all very flattering to my skin tone and the lip sheers especially have a very soft texture. The shimmer brick itself gives me a soft glow that I never kne

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It isn't often I get to speak with a fellow blogger and discuss my favorite past time but last week Kathryn from Daring Young Mom (who is also the guest judge for the Write-Away Contest) kindly took time out of her vacation to speak with me and answer some questions.I asked about her history with blogging. She started blogging after the birth of her son, as a bit of practice for future publication, and with feelings familiar to many of us began her blog by saying, "Maybe [people] will read it and maybe they won't. But it's fun." DYM has now been online about a year and has been nominated for and has won various awards--evidently people are reading it and feeling right at home.I asked about her family's history with blogging (her sister blogs at One Woman's World and both her parents have blogs) but ended up talking more about how she feels her blog may change as her two children, code-named Laylee and Magoo, grow.She said she will probably be less personal, less revealing about