Baking
CupcakeCamp was fun for sure, but my main agenda for going was to talk to other vegans and see how they made their cupcakes light and fluffy, and not dense and heavy (the house specialty). I was delighted to see there were a shockingly high number of vegan entries, all of which were incredibly delicious. [...]
This was a very agreeable bread to make: very forgiving to work with and it only took one day of prep time. I was lazy and opted not to construct the cinnamon swirl, an oversight that will never happen again.
After a few days prep time, some pane Siciliano came out of the oven not as delicious as it looked. It was a fine accompaniment to salad, but there were certain steps that I could have done better (not going to sleep without shaping the dough, for instance). It’s almost too dense, but it will [...]
“…ovenproof up to 450 degrees…”? I disagree, but not very strongly, because I was probably in the wrong on this one.
I want a phone that is the about the same size as my iPod Nano. My observant friend and cube neighbor reports that the Sony Ericsson w880i is such a phone. Only it isn’t available through Cingular in the states. And it seems silly to spend $400+ on a phone off eBay when the tiny [...]