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Saturday: Laundry + Cake
Jul. 12th, 2008 08:30 pmThis morning was pretty much dedicated to doing laundry, of which I had a small mountain. I hadn't gotten to it for a few weeks (which says something about how much of a fashionista I've become in the past five years) and I had reached the critical point, being quite literally down to my last pair of underwear. Thus, I hauled a few weeks of clothes + sheets + towels out to the laundromat.
On the way I realized that I had left my laundry detergent at home. Luckily I was planning on stopping at the store to pick up another box of do-it-yourself dry cleaning, so I just grabbed more detergent at the same time. I needed the dry cleaning stuff because some of the clothing I wore to Madison is dry-clean only, and I had also decided to run the kimono I picked up though a cycle in hopes that would make some of the wrinkles fall out. Sadly, it didn't but it does smell much fresher. I'm planning on dry-cleaning the jacket once I assure myself that the cleaning chemicals won't do anything horrific to the colored threads in the design.
The rest of the day was spent doing various random things, including finding a second-hand copy of the Meditations of Marcus Arelious (yes, I realize I probably misspelled that) and making Fred listen to my writer's angst.
BUT! This evening has been spent working on cakes. A few months ago I discovered that the cookbook of the Nebraska Czechs of Wilbur had a recipe for a cake that looked very much like the recipe for the Mint Madness/Mexican Chocolate cakes we have at work. This excited me, because while I cannot give out our recipe, I could happily give out a recipe similar to it. So this past month I've been tinkering with the recipe to get it to a point I'm happy with. When I deem it worthy, I'll probably put it up here.
I've also made a buttermilk "pound" cake from a recipe I found on allrecipe.com . I say "pound" because real pound cakes have more sugar, eggs, and butter and no buttermilk, but I have personal and professional reasons for wanting a good loaf cake recipe and this one looked promising. It was drop-dead simple to make and used up some of the buttermilk hanging out in my fridge, so I considered it all around a good deal.
The chocolate cake is cooling on the rack and the buttermilk cake is baking away. My co-workers will love me Monday, because I refuse to eat all this cake by myself.
On the way I realized that I had left my laundry detergent at home. Luckily I was planning on stopping at the store to pick up another box of do-it-yourself dry cleaning, so I just grabbed more detergent at the same time. I needed the dry cleaning stuff because some of the clothing I wore to Madison is dry-clean only, and I had also decided to run the kimono I picked up though a cycle in hopes that would make some of the wrinkles fall out. Sadly, it didn't but it does smell much fresher. I'm planning on dry-cleaning the jacket once I assure myself that the cleaning chemicals won't do anything horrific to the colored threads in the design.
The rest of the day was spent doing various random things, including finding a second-hand copy of the Meditations of Marcus Arelious (yes, I realize I probably misspelled that) and making Fred listen to my writer's angst.
BUT! This evening has been spent working on cakes. A few months ago I discovered that the cookbook of the Nebraska Czechs of Wilbur had a recipe for a cake that looked very much like the recipe for the Mint Madness/Mexican Chocolate cakes we have at work. This excited me, because while I cannot give out our recipe, I could happily give out a recipe similar to it. So this past month I've been tinkering with the recipe to get it to a point I'm happy with. When I deem it worthy, I'll probably put it up here.
I've also made a buttermilk "pound" cake from a recipe I found on allrecipe.com . I say "pound" because real pound cakes have more sugar, eggs, and butter and no buttermilk, but I have personal and professional reasons for wanting a good loaf cake recipe and this one looked promising. It was drop-dead simple to make and used up some of the buttermilk hanging out in my fridge, so I considered it all around a good deal.
The chocolate cake is cooling on the rack and the buttermilk cake is baking away. My co-workers will love me Monday, because I refuse to eat all this cake by myself.
