Well, it looks like I let May go by without a single word. To be honest, I don't even remember what I did during the month...all of a sudden it was gone!
So far June has started off to a great start! Ross and I got out the canoe for the first of the season and floated in our local swimming hole, Lake Nokomis. Then we headed down to Lanesboro, MN for the Rhubarb Festival and camped out that evening. All signs point to it being a good summer!
Besides little adventures, I've been working on re-upholstering a chair and baking, baking, baking! Last week I made these:
They're cream puffs with chocolate porter mousse and a chocolate porter ganache! What?! I know, before giving some away we ate them for each meal. I combined a few different recipes.
The cream puff recipe I got from here and the beer mousse and beer ganache recipe here. The ganache wasn't as smooth as I had hoped. Perhaps it was because there was beer in it or because I didn't melt the chocolate properly, but it still tasted great!
Then I made a cake for my neighbor's son who just graduated from high school.
Here's the kitchen amidst the chaos of cake making:
I layered vanilla and chocolate cake and the frosting was a vanilla buttercream. Holy powdered sugar and butter.
I am not a perfectionist when it comes to baking or decorating and I figure that there are people who look for the same in baked goods. I just have never been drawn to the perfectly smooth baked goods that look more like art than food. Don't get me wrong...I will eat them, but they don't seem to be my style. However, it would be nice to be able to have that skill if ever needed. It's definitely a learning process and it's one that I love.
So far June has started off to a great start! Ross and I got out the canoe for the first of the season and floated in our local swimming hole, Lake Nokomis. Then we headed down to Lanesboro, MN for the Rhubarb Festival and camped out that evening. All signs point to it being a good summer!
Besides little adventures, I've been working on re-upholstering a chair and baking, baking, baking! Last week I made these:
They're cream puffs with chocolate porter mousse and a chocolate porter ganache! What?! I know, before giving some away we ate them for each meal. I combined a few different recipes.
The cream puff recipe I got from here and the beer mousse and beer ganache recipe here. The ganache wasn't as smooth as I had hoped. Perhaps it was because there was beer in it or because I didn't melt the chocolate properly, but it still tasted great!
Then I made a cake for my neighbor's son who just graduated from high school.
Here's the kitchen amidst the chaos of cake making:
I layered vanilla and chocolate cake and the frosting was a vanilla buttercream. Holy powdered sugar and butter.
I am not a perfectionist when it comes to baking or decorating and I figure that there are people who look for the same in baked goods. I just have never been drawn to the perfectly smooth baked goods that look more like art than food. Don't get me wrong...I will eat them, but they don't seem to be my style. However, it would be nice to be able to have that skill if ever needed. It's definitely a learning process and it's one that I love.
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