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The Superbowl won’t fill any holes in my heart, but I’m kind of sorry to miss it anyway

03 Friday Feb 2012

Posted by frannyritchie in Uncategorized

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cupcakes, entertainment, food, football, sitting, sports, Super Bowl

I don’t care about the Patriots or the Giants, but I do love hoopla.  And I’m sorry to miss the hoopla that goes along with Superbowl Sunday in the States.

Via http://www.cupcakeproject.com

People love football so much that they’re willing to make buffalo-wing cupcakes with blue cheese frosting.  Yup – that photo is real.  And the ads have been circulating YouTube for two weeks already, starting with Volkswagen and Honda, with a Ferris Bueller-themed viral video.  I don’t think either ad is funny enough to repost, but its on YouTube if you’re curious.

Even though I’m thousands of miles and five time zones away, I think I’ll treat this Sunday the way my countrymen do: by sitting on my ass and eating disgustingly caloric food.  And may both the Giants and Patriots be forced under the heel of the Packers and Steelers next year.  Go Rust Belt!

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Domestic Goddess Spree, Round 2

27 Friday Jan 2012

Posted by frannyritchie in Snacks

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baking, chocolate, cupcakes, dessert pizza, food, meringues, snacks

…I have a feeling that, until I get a job, cooking sprees might be a recurring theme in my posts.  I took some cupcakes to my neighbor yesterday, a very nice man named Jim, and he took one look at them and said “so you’re still job hunting?”  Which is maybe a compliment? That’s probably how I should take it, right?

Anyway.  Being unemployed has allowe me to make lots of delicious food.  The cupcake recipe was Thomas Keller’s, from his incredible book Ad Hoc At Home.  Below are some recipes I’ve gotten from the internet and would absolutely totally recommend making, even if you’re not a person with lots of time like I am.

1. Dessert Blueberry Pizza from Spoon Fork Bacon
2. Chocolate Meringues from Bakerella (how is that woman not morbidly obese? She makes so many delicious things) (also, these are great, but they do NOT photograph well)
3. Lamb Meatballs & Orecchiette from Design Sponge
4. Baked Macaroni & Cheese from Simply Scratch

I need to stop making cupcakes because I want to regain my girlish figure, but I have to say, learning to cook and bake new things has been a distinct pleasure of being unemployed, and learning to take pictures of cupcakes has been a bonus too (believe it or not, my food photography skills are improving, as is my command of my fancy camera.  Woot!)

Bonus Post: I Make an Awesome Cupcake

21 Saturday Jan 2012

Posted by frannyritchie in Snacks

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baking, candied citrus, cupcakes, poo swirls, snacks

Usually food bloggers say that they ‘adapted’ recipes from other blogs.  I’m not a real food blogger, so I don’t adapt recipes. I just trust that if they made it onto a blog its because they tasted good. In this case, I used a recipe from JoyOfBaking.com and omitted the cream of tartar because I didn’t have any.

I topped them with chocolate buttercream (6 ounces butter, 6 ounces icing sugar, 1 ounce cocoa powder) and then put pieces of candied citrus on top, which was a good idea in theory and a sloppy-looking idea in practice.  The chocolate frosting was delicious but came out looking like poo swirls of CakeWrecks fame.  And then I put them in my cupcake carrier for its inaugural use (I insisted on registering for it when I got married.  Then I decided that was ridiculous.  Then I decided, hell with it, I want a cupcake carrier.  Then I didn’t use it for a year and a half).

Anyway, I got about ten feet from the house on my bike with the damn cupcakes before they all fell out of their little holsters and smushed all over the place, and then it didn’t matter that they hadn’t looked that good to begin with (could’ve seen that one coming).  I put them back in place, biked two miles one-handed (including up the only hill in Cambridge!) and then lied and told everyone they were beautiful before I spilled them.

I didn’t intend to post about them originally so the only thing I have to show for my efforts is the candied citrus.  I was inspired by a recent post on winter citrus from MattBites but the local grocery didn’t have blood oranges, so I used oranges, lemons and limes. I’d never had candied lime before, but its pretty amazing. Candying the pulp along with the peel makes everything a little sloppier and wetter, but also much, much faster.

The cupcakes were great, but I would note that they were utensil-intensive.  It would help to have a hand mixer and a stand mixer; an electric mixer of some sort is absolutely essential, and you go through a lot of bowls and spatulas and whatever else.

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