Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Happy birthday Julia Child!

So today would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. (Side note, it's also the birthday of my brother-in-law and my spectacular former roomate/fourth grade drama camp bff).  Interestingly enough, I put out about a million "Happy Birthday" dessert plates at work today. I'm not sure what was going on nine months ago. Yikes. 

We've been celebrating Julia Child for a week at work by making a crap ton of vichyssoise, cherry clafoutis, and frisee salad with poached eggs. I haven't mastered the art of French cooking, but I definitely need a break from cold potato soup.  Is it very American of me to have an urge to heat some up and throw in a bunch of bacon and cheddar? Don't answer that.

Anywho, given the culinary goddess's birthday is today, I figured it would be a good time to pick back up with the blog.  See, I've been a wee bit busy. I got engaged a month ago! So I've been elbow deep in band contracts and invitation paper swatches. But now that the initial players are secured and I'm guaranteed to have a wedding with music and food, I can finally come up for air. 

Fear not, though. In my absence, I've still been cooking.  I made this sweet sprinkle cake for my friend Talla's birthday: 

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(Her birthday is NOT today).  But she loves sprinkles. 

 

I also ate the most gigantic shrimps I've ever seen in my life: 

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Do you appreciate my 1990's hotel presentation of a shrimp cocktail? I sure do. I think more foods should be eaten out of martini glasses. Lord knows, I can't drink out of martini glasses (without spilling vodka all over my chin, anyway). 

The point is, I just downloaded 189 photos from my iPhone to my computer. Most of them are of cupcakes. I'm prepared to give you a play by play of all of the awesome things I've been cooking, even if you don't want to hear about it. 

2 comments:

  1. YESSSS! I've been waiting for this moment for so long!

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  2. It's a good thing I wasn't near those jumbo shrimp because I'M ALLERGIC TO OXYMORONS!

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