Haute Comme 3 Pommes

Or as I like to call this piece of work, Unintentionally Spicy Mushroom Noodle Soup. The gloomy weather hasn't been doing the city or I many favours - the wet sock feeling when running? No thank you. On the bright side (if there is any), it has ignited my desire for hot soup. I decided mushroom soup would be a nice cure for the blues, so I adapted this recipe to what I had on hand. Which was...interesting. I added some garlic, broccoli stem, straw mushrooms, bay leaf (I still don't know if it did anything, oh dear), macaroni and cayenne pepper powder - all to the therapeutic sounds of Mother Mother.

Verdict?
It was fuh-reaking delicious, oh mah gaw. Add some toasted pita bread with pesto spread on top (which I did) and you will be happy as a clam. Seriously. The only flaw was the spicyness. The recipe called for some good ol' s and p (salt and pepper) for flavouring... and for some unknown reason there was a shortage of salt. Sac à papier. So I threw in quite a bit of pepper and cayenne pepper powder to give some form of flavour.

N.B. Do not taste the soup immediately after you've frantically tried to bomb it with seasonings, you're probably NOT going to taste it. Until after ~20 min, where you regret everything.

Double post, say what?! Seriously, you can't post character sketches but pictures of food are alright. Going to school and work usually put my dinners in a bit of a rut (don't want no stares in class / workplace policies). Yummy foods such as chicken, pasta, etc. are no-no's simply it can easily make a mess on oneself or go flying out and make a mess on someone on the bus. Sad, sad times. So I've been sticking to the basics: salad, sandwiches (brace yourself, the kitchen jokes are coming), or rice. Speaking of which, I've had the luck of trying out a Japanese curry rice pilaf found here. The premise? Excellent. The result? Sad face. The rice lacked any form of flavour - just a faint taste of curry, which pretty much ruined the entire idea. Maybe it was because I used mild curry roux, or I didn't let the curry cook for a while before adding the rice. At least the sausage and vegetables tasted good. Next time, I'll either add some chili pepper for a kick, add a reasonably flavourful  stock, or cook the curry longer.

[My baby cake just after it came out of the oven!]

[Clearly, I have a Master's in Icing Cakes]

I vowed to put some pictures of outfits/ art... and look, more food! If it hasn't been made clear, I live in the kitchen. Here's some good ol' home-made macaroni and cheese. Which was not consumed by my sister, like it was supposed to be. Sad face. Hypothesis: No one in my house wants to eat my food, and because of it, I will become a big roly poly ball of chubbiness.

It's strange how the weather can shift from sunny and somewhat warm one day, to rainy and miserable the next. I hope Mother Nature has a good explanation. Anyways, to celebrate the warm weather yesterday, I ventured into the depths of my kitchen and made some delicious Passion Tea Lemonade granita! It was utterly delicious, and I can't wait for summer to come so I can make buckets of this treat for friends and family. Hopefully I can cram in some drawings and outfit posts soon, I feel as if this blog is evolving into a food and photography blog.