fun with fondant: wake up little sushi ☺

October 11, 2010 ~ jama

Happy Columbus Day!

Hope you’ve been having a nice holiday weekend.

Just had to share this two-part video of TLC’s Fabulous Cakes episode featuring boutique bakery, Caked Las Vegas. Owner Carolyn Portuondo, a graduate of Punahou School in Hawai’i, gave up a career in Medicine to follow her passion for baking. Her all-cake sushi boat is simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Sit back, relax, sip your favorite beverage, and watch a great cake artist at work:

*This post has been brought to you by Fondant, a sweet, creamy sugar paste used in candies and icings. In the last 10 years, rolled fondant has become wildly popular among pastry chefs in the U.S. because of its versatility, pliability, and ease of dyeing. Think of it as bakers’ playdough. ☺

♥ Special thanks to my half-sister, Sylvia, for sharing the links!

friday feast: happy 70th birthday john lennon!

October 8, 2010December 25, 2017 ~ jama

“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” ~ John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)

Tomorrow, to celebrate John Lennon’s 70th birthday, Yoko Ono will once again relight the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland.

Yoko Ono’s official flickr photostream

This “tower of light” is projected from a white stone monument (“wishing well”) with the words, “Imagine Peace,” carved on it in 24 different languages. Fifteen searchlights reflect off prisms to create this lighted column, which is 4000+ m. tall and touches the clouds!

Yoko Ono official/flickr

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F is for Fall: le menu

October 7, 2010July 26, 2011 ~ jama

Autumn Scene, Jessie Wilcox Smith (1919)

Greetings, Ladies and Germs!

Yes, the cat in the hat is back! Well, sort of.

*yawns, strokes whiskers and assumes penetrating gaze*

So, how have you been? I must say you’re looking rather perky today. Must be the brisk fall weather — the winds of change blowing in, crisp leaves underfoot, apples for breakfast . . .

photo:-Snug-/flickr

As for me, I enjoyed my longish lunch break. Went all the way to Hawai’i to dine in the sunshine, yes I did. Another sacrifice on your behalf, dear friends. *cough*

I swear there must be somebody secretly moving those islands a few hundred miles west every year, because Hawai’i seems further and farther away the older I get. The 12-hour flight is exhausting, jet lag, the pits. If I sound incoherent the next week or so, you’ll know why. (And if, in my sleep-deprived stupor, I offhandedly offer you cash, pay no attention.)

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