So, I was reading some Calamities of Nature, a wonderful webcomic, and I was inspired by the cartoon in that link. I'd never had a chocolate cake with bacon in it before, and I wondered what it would be like. Luckily, the internet came to my rescue with this recipe, Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes. This was great, because I could easily dole them out to my coworkers to make them like me more.
It's a quick and easy recipe, and I suggest that everyone try it. The cake itself is delicious and moist, and the bits of bacon add some great texture and some welcome umami. Even if you forgo the bacon, the cake recipe is great, so use it for your regular chocolate cakes too. For the frosting, I just whipped up a quick chocolate cream cheese frosting. There's no real recipe for that, just use your hand mixer to cream together a couple tablespoons of butter, maybe six tablespoons of cream cheese, about 3/4 cup of powdered sugar, and 1/4 cup cocoa powder. My butter wasn't soft enough, so you can see little flakes of butter in the frosting.
Since my last update, I've also made a few other things, but they're not that exciting.
Some Pakora:
Some Spam musubi:
Okay, the Spam musubi is pretty cool, you basically marinate some spam in teriyaki sauce, fry it, and put it on some sushi rice, wrapped with a bit of nori and a drop of wasabi.
Finally, we opened up our first bottle of homebrew last night. It looks and tastes like real beer.
It's a wheat beer, and it's still got a few weeks left to age in the bottles, but we wanted to try this one, just to make sure everything is going well. It seems to be.
