Friday, April 29, 2011

rachel is finding it with the cupcakes, life was changed. she had two in one sitting, more than impressive. 


COMEDY NIGHT!!! The first two comedians were not funny, the last two stepped up their game - both jewish. apparently christ didn't breed humor from jerusalem. 
















tomato soup and sausages































dinner

















grasshopper cake, mmm

















masterpiece

Thursday, April 28, 2011

chocolate coconut cream with blackberry/golden-mango reduction and chocolate buttercream frosting


















coconut cream filling



reduced


frosting queen


















with her tool...


















tasty.






washed down with this.




another successful baking venture, a bakery might be in our near future. "dancing immunologists" was thrown out as a potential name by the peanut gallery, pun from today's class intended. weaver has a orofecal fetish.


"i am not a peanut, i am twelve peanuts."

Baby!

Megan and Adam have one in the oven! 6 months to go!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

beast sings blues

testing, testing...

Oh hello, and welcome to the inaugural post of this four-ninety-five blog, born out of yesterday's waffle party ideas of making ridiculous amounts of food and attempting to eat it all. The idea is that we will all contribute stories and/or recipes and/or videos and/or life advice that we deem worthy, and upload them so that we can look back on this when we are begrudged scientists writing too many grants and remember our graduate school freedom/festivities. So, this attempt is going through Brendan's SD card and uploading relevant pictures thus far - a photodump, if you will - in no chronological order:


Let's start with the most recent picture, from yesterday, depicting what we called a "waffle party" consisting of Brendan, Rachel and I (and pup). Brendan's recent purchase of a $12 waffle maker from craigslist - from a middle aged azn women outside of JC penny waiting for us in a blue (sportscar?) - made this all possible, as well as the warmer-climate states for supplying strawberries and pineapples.

 Also made yesterday, our first attempt at french bread, of which I am a huge fan.
 
 breakfast of champions


Below is one of our first attempts at "exotic fruit sundays" - we buy weird fruit we don't recognize, eat it on sundays. Such victims include: pommelos, ugli fruit, baby kiwis, champagne mangoes, papaya, korean pears, genetically engineered orange hybrids, etc etc 







































 We started the whoopie pie phenomenon. Caution: these should only be made once a year - the amount of lard and sugar is actually disgusting. 










making whoopie









Brendan's birthday queens cakes - he made his own birthday baked good.
















































Man food. Randall and Brendan made habanero-cheddar-brats in a blanket. sausages.








 strawberry raspberry pie, a big hit. Please note the lazy-lattice. 









little bro visits the rock. sibling pizza duel. 












Mine was the best, obviously. Blue goat cheese, spinach, tomato, mushroom, olive pizza. 











PARTY HATS. beast and pheasant.


Puppen's first birthday! She is so mature.














rachel as sour dough queen. we still want a starter.








































Flaming creme brulee                                   
Les









star fruit buttermilk cornbread attempt 1. Actually tasted like aunt jemima's feet. Don't use whole-wheat flour when making cornbread, or you will be manically remaking it before your friends come over for dinner. self'd.











The world's best cinnamon raisin bread.
Crab rice boats. Kinda gross, don't trust all recipes you see in random blogs.


























Aglish liked them















spiced grapefruit blood orange juice, sometimes you can trust recipes from strangers






Brendan recently discovered chicken cutlets


Melting lindt for vesna's birthday cake


Almond cookies are delish when you are craving almonds, especially dipped in chocolate.


Carrot cake cupcakes to celebrate that jesus has arisen. Actually lifechanging. Complete with buying a stupid cake decorator kit for the cream cheese frosting. 




easter'd.
Michele's first/best easter basket. 






chocolate bread pudding, also known as 'what to do when you have stale white bread and a packet of chocolate pudding mix'


stay tuned.