Strawberry Tarts

     My class had an end-of-the-year picnic a few days ago, and I decided to make mini-pies (aka tarts). Here's a how-to on how to make your own strawberry tarts-http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/mini-strawberry-pies/, and here are some pictures of the process and how mine ended up turning out.

After baking

Before baking

Om Nom Nom Sushi

Hello Friends! I made sushi yesterday, and I am not going to give you a how-to on sushi making but I will say that it is very fun. We did the whole deal, noodles, miso soup, rice on the side and of course the sushi. I went to the superstore to get some ingredients, stopped by at value village (I got some absolutely lovely plaid shirts, I may post them later) and then went home to make it. It was pretty dang tasty. 

Try the strange juice!+Bob Dylan's birthday

Went downtown with Anwyn after the garage sale. We went into our downtown '60s pop culture store, Fab, to get prints. The guy who works there {I think his name is John, or the much more awesome title 'fab guy'} After talking to fab guy and looking in his shop we headed down to Min's, our local asian food store, and bought lunch which was, by the way, spring rolls and strange-looking good-tasting strawberry-flavored Alo Vera juice. Then we had a photo shoot with the juice and later headed back to my house, where we watched a spandex-clad David Bowie hold a small child in the movie 'Labourinth'.  

Anwyn models the strange juice.

Close up, the strange juice looked quite interesting.

On Sunday, me, Anwyn, and her two brothers, Rhys and Theo celebrated Bob Dylan's Birthday by eating cake and watching Concert for Bangladesh for the millionth time. Theo watched us make the chocolate zucchini cake very closely. {Theo is 4 years old}

Theo, intoxicated by cake icing.

My magnificent weekend; Ooh la la music cake

  Well, this weekend was quite enjoyable. I went to my friend Charlotte's house and met Anwyn there as well, and then had a birthday party for every musician we could think of. We then were very nerdy and actually baked them a cake and put all of their names on it. Wow. We were geniuses. We went and bought pink icing at foodland and saw two cute little mallard ducks, I actually managed to take a picture of them before they waddled off. Canada must be really boring, I just realized, because people get really over-exited because of ducks. But, I must say, they were really cute ducks. 

These are a bunch of wonderful photos of us baking a cake, and ducks.

See what I mean about the wonderful ducks?

Anyway, then we bought the icing, walked home, Augusta came over, we put on some records, iced the cakes and then...

Before

middle

After

Also after

The grand finally!

Just to let you know, this is what it says on our cakes....

Cake #1

Johny, Paulie, George, Ringo, Roger, Pete, Moonie, John, Julian, Fab, Albert, Nick, Robert, John Paul, Bonzo, Jimmy, Kurt, Krist, Anwyn, Half of Donovan, Gus.

Cake #2

  Mick, Keef, Charlie, Bill, Bowie, Beck, Bobby, Bret, Jemaine, Nikolai, Alex, Matt, Freddie, Syd, Grohl, Jem, Char, and then the last half of Donovan.

Hooray! All done!

Happy easter

  My easter was great. How was yours? I must say that this easter fully reached my expectations, candy wise. My family left our house on friday carrying almost no junk food and then left with a bag of mini eggs, chocolate cupcakes, a couple of belgian chocolate chickens, a quarter of my dad's birthday cake, some interesting looking twinkie-eggs, a box of ferraro rocher and to top it off, some kinder eggs with chocolate instead of toys inside them. Needless to say, we did eat most of them in the last 48 hours. I must be about 50% chocolate by now, but of course I still feel the need to eat more.


I stayed with extended family and stayed up until about 12:30pm playing backgammon and watching doctor who. I am fairly surprised that I'm not sick. 

Sorry about the next 4 or 5 pictures. This is just what happens when I'm bored and have chocolate.

This hapless Ferraro Rocher doesn't stand a chance.

Yummy!

The chocolate still hasn't noticed.

Look at this beautiful cupcake! It actually does look kind of crappy, but inside, it's fantastic!

I have 5 of these wonderful, glorious, fattening miniscule cakes! Well, four now....