| Food, photos, scraps |
[8. 15. 09.|08:42 pm] |
I wanted to post before I leave for Asia tomorrow~
I'm obsessed with these two songs.
Ellie Goulding-Black+Gold
Ellie Goulding-Starry Eyed
Yesterday my sister, my mom, a family friend and I were lucky enough to get a private pastry-making demonstration from Johnny Iuzzini, head pastry-chef at the famous restaurant Jean-Georges. This guy is adorable. I think I'm in love; he's cute, nice, and damn is he good with his hands. @w@ (Good lord maybe I should lock this entry) He taught us how to make cheesecake (ok, fancy little flat french cheesecake squares), strawberry sorbet, vanilla ice cream, and Jean Georges' signature molten chocolate cake. Actually, my favorite thing was the sorbet. It was pretty simple--sugar, strawberries, red wine, lemon, and vanilla bean. The texture was so smooth, apparently because of the wine, and the flavor was amazing. I need to buy his cookbook. (I'm so stupid, why didn't I buy it before and have him sign it?) Also, I'm going to have to suck it up and start using vanilla beans. They make such a huge difference. (They're also hugely expensive.)
When everything was done, we got to arrange the desserts (ok, copy his arrangement) and eat them.
shitty cell phone pic. I should have taken a picture of his. We couldn't even scoop out the ice cream like he did. I wish I could take pastry-making lessons! And I wish I had an excuse for making ridiculously extravagant pastries...
We talked about depachika in Japan (lol) and he sent me some restaurant recommendations for Tokyo. But we can't afford most of them. owo;; He also told us about his upcoming series on the history channel. It's going to be about him and a group of other chefs trying to recreate historical cuisine, like ancient Roman banquets and stuff, using only the ingredients and tools they had back then. Sounds so cool right? Keep an eye out for it.
Oh, and we met THE Jean-Georges on our way out! He was like, the most polished little French chef man I've ever seen. ;w;
Bought a new jacket. It's my favorite thing in my closet now.
( tales of baking failure, nedms, and TF2 scraps ) |
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| Meme |
[9. 22. 08.|10:23 pm] |
College rant is forthcoming
though its like
i'll never have time
to do anything
ever again
except procrastinate
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| oh no, reirei's posting again |
[7. 9. 08.|09:54 pm] |
Oh my god summer is so boring
I should have enrolled in some program.
I've just been rolling around and petting qats and baking
I made a pretty gewd custard fruit tart for graduation (i have a picture, dunno where it is), and last weekend I made coconut cupcakes with creamcheese frosting for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) crazyscale's party, and yesterday I made French onion soup, which has a fuckload of alcohol in it lolz. It has like 2 cups of white wine, plus some brandy plus some sherry etc...but it was good. And tomorrow I'm gonna make lemon squares for my grandpa's 80th birthday. His side of the family (the crazy Italian side that I don't really know) is throwing him a huge gnocchi party where there will be an amazing abundance of gnocchi
anyway.
( photos and drawings, the usual )
On friday we're going to Sobaya
uhnnggg noddlesdsjfhdsjf
I also want to go to Kyotofu
It's true, I'm always thinking about food TTwTT;; |
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| Good Omens recs |
[11. 27. 07.|11:08 am] |
youkanfever and crazyscale apparently have never read a good GO fic (how is this possible??) so here are my favorite ones~ No, I don't have anything better to post about.
Before the Fall "Ssshake it." I guess the style is a little pretentious, but its a cute beginnings fic~
With this Ring "No need to take that tone. It's very simple. We're married." OH YOU.
Friends in High Places I think this is my favorite favorite. It makes me giggle like a huge retard.
Coda ...I really have an embarrassing crush on Crowley. Especially when he hisses. D:
Eight Nights In which Aziraphale tricks Crowley into celebrating Hanukkah. Of course i had to rec it.
Innocence and Experience "Yes. No. Ow! Stop, quickly, stop. Oh, this isn't working!"
And When He Falls "I am thwarting. I'm thwarting like billy-o." |
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