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Happy New Year!

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We greeted the New Year with family last night, feasting on Roast Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Spanish Green Beans, Baked Rigatoni, Cinnamon Rolls, Thick Hot Chocolate, Chilled Champagne, and ginger-scented Suman. The food was excellent, the fireworks short but spectacular, and the company wonderful.  I had so much fun, I lost my voice. I’ve been whispering all day.

For 2008, my resolutions are simple:

  1. Eat less junk food.
  2. Make Smitten Kitchen’s Red Velvet Cake.
  3. Participate in more Lasang Pinoy editions.
  4. Cook at home more, eat out less, and
  5. Spend more time outdoors, especially with the dogs.

Happy, Happy New Year to you!

Lasang Pinoy 21: Cooking for Heroes

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Bryan Alvarez of Shoots. Eats. Leaves. has posted his round-up of October’s Lasang Pinoy. This was a particularly special event, being Lasang Pinoy’s Anniversary Edition and featuring the theme Cooking for Heroes. Not the immensely popular television show, no, but Filipino heroes- like Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, even the People of People Power!

Will it make you hungry? Yes. But what I love about this round is how interesting all of the write-ups were. Make yourself a cup of tea and go read them.

I hope it’s not too early to mention that I’ll be hosting January 2008′s Lasang Pinoy: Crockpot Cooking! To join in the fun, I suggest you sign up for the Lasang Pinoy mailing list.

Tokidoki Cake

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tokidoki cake
I am LOVING this right now- not only is it Tokidoki, it’s Le Sportsac- AND it’s a cake!

outside: tons of fondant to make the tokidoki figure (and a lot of toothpicks), and to create the bag. the hearts and crossbones were hand-piped by her assistant, claire, onto wax paper, then dried and applied to the cake with more royal icing. inside: eight layers of vanilla macadamia nut cake with buttercream and a generous lashing of grand marnier.
(via the scent of green bananas)

My Kind of Pizza (Chicago Deep Dish!)

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Blame it on this video on YouTube. For weeks now, and all throughout my short bout with the flu, I’ve been craving authentic Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Because I don’t know where to get it here in the lovely suburbs, I decided to do it myself.

Home made Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

I used this recipe I found online. Please note that I halved this recipe, since we’re- um- not a family of seven.

A Slice of Deep Dish

The crust was way too thick at the bottom- completely my fault- but my husband liked it anyway. Next time, I’ll use less crust, and pre-cook it before filling it. See the recipe after the jump.
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