My Australian meat pies turned out fantastic, with the following notes ( Read more... )

If coming home from Sweeney Todd with a craving for meat pies is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

Betty Crocker fails me, though. Any recipes welcome.

ETA: I'm going to give this a whirl, except in custard dishes and with a normal shortening crust. I'll report on the results! *goes off whistling to chop up hunk o' meat*

My favorite flavor lately has been rosemary-cheese chicken, so here's a quick recipe ( Read more... )

If I have a Livejournal, I should occasionally post to it, shouldn't I?

There's too much to update, so let me give the highlights, in random chronological order.

- Post Your Art Day was pretty much the best thing ever, so if you didn't get to see all the posts, go and check them out. The range is astonishing. You guys are awesome ( Read more... )

My diabetic friend from the drafting room just gave me a piece of sugar-free gum that he claims will keep its flavor for hours. We'll see.

ETA: 1:54 pm Hey, this gum is pretty good.

I went with the Easter candy for breakfast. Sigh ( Read more... )

Which is worse to have for breakfast: nothing, or Easter candy?

I finished up the beeswax last night, and got another twelve gorgeous plugs of clean wax. (And three not-so-gorgeous ones toward the end; they picked up some sediment.) My apparatus got increasingly ingenious the more I used it, so that by the end it was a snap ( Read more... )

Last night I stayed up late talking to my sister and making berry tartlets. The tartlets were my attempt at bite-sizing this stupendous berry pie that I make. (Ulterior motives included making something to take to a party tonight, and clearing out my freezer before the move.) It's just an adaptation of the raspberry pie in the Better Homes & ( Read more... )

Some of you may not have seen jd3000's ice cream float recipe. And that's terrible. But those of you that have seen it know that when I tell you to go see his french toast recipe, it's because I love you.

GIP ( with spoilers )