I am a nerd when it comes to cooking & baking! Here are my cooking/baking confessions:
-I rarely measure anything
-when a recipe calls for 1 tsp vanilla, I use almost 2 and I only use Mexican vanilla
-I also rarely use &/or follow a recipe
-I love to experiment when I cook . . . which doesn’t always turn out the best
-I used to teach cooking classes
-you can never have too many kitchen gadgets
-the harder the ingredient or spice is to say the more I want to try it
-I love experimenting with spices. My current favorite is cardamom. I would love to try some great saffron
-my google reader is full of photography blogs, craft blogs & food blogs. My favorites are bakerella, joy the baker, smitten kitchen & the pioneer woman.
(I love to see their photography too)
-garnishing a dish is yet another one of my favorites
I was extremely flattered when my little sister asked me to make her birthday cake: the triple chocolate cheesecake you see above. My husband said it had too much chocolate…I say nonsense!!!
Chelsea - ….and, you are gonna bake something like this in Vegas, yes? =)
Hold on just a minute… oh… wait is that?… oh uh yeah… I just drooled on my keyboard. 😉
Okay, not really but it does look DELISH!
Belinda - Chels, maybe I'll make one for our after Vegas party 🙂