A Tire inspired cake




I really love looking on unique and creative cakes. Making one as a personalized cake for someone is such a sweet and clever idea. And for sure the person whom you’re going to give it will truly appreciate the effort especially if it’s one of his or her favorites… This morning I happened to see this tire inspired cake, which according to the baker was requested by the customer.

If you take a look one of this ATV Tires, this cake looks exactly the same. :razz:
The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream filling and frosting. I was thinking that this is hard to do but just what the baker said, “it was actually easier than I was expecting”. :)
Nice one on this and I hope I could bake similar creative cakes like them.

{photo via http://mscakes.blogspot.com/}

May 12th, 2011 by admin
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Roasted Chicken, Focaccia and Olive Salad

Because I just read sensa reviews that pertain on diet plan, I feel like looking on healthy and less fat only recipes, haha… but anyway I’m happy that I found this salad, which could be one of the menus on Mothers’ day. I’m sure my Mom would love it. She’s into eating more of salad lately so this kind of recipe fit into her liking. Aside from being a healthy food, preparing this salad is easy. Check the recipe below and you may want to include it also as one of your menu on Mother’s day:

Ingredients:
5 Tbsp. olive oil
1/4 cup white wine or cider vinegar
2 tsp. Mediterranean seasoning blend or spaghetti seasoning
1 tsp. sugar
3 cups torn, day old garlic focaccia or Italian bread (6 oz.)
2 cups shredded deli-roasted chicken (12 oz.)
3/4 cup pitted olives
3 romaine hearts, cored and coarsely chopped

Directions:
1. For dressing, in a small bowl whisk together 4 tablespoons of the olive oil, the vinegar, seasoning blend, and sugar; set aside.

2. In a 12-inch skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Add bread. Cook and stir for 5 minutes until lightly toasted. Remove from skillet. Add dressing, chicken, and olives to skillet; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes until chicken is heated through. Return bread to skillet; toss to coat.

3. Arrange lettuce on 4 plates; top with chicken mixture. Serve immediately. Makes 4 servings.

(recipe via www.bhg.com)

May 6th, 2011 by admin
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Cheding’s Toasted Peanuts

One of my favorite peanuts in town, Cheding toasted peanuts. I have it on my table while waiting for my data backup service. And I’m glad I still have enough to keep me awake as I’m already sleepy while working on my pc. :) Where to buy this peanut you may ask. I know this is from Iligan City. I’m lucky though because one of my aunts brought this to me last week who came here for vacation . She’s from Iligan City. And if there’s one thing that I usually asked from them to bring that is Cheding’s peanut. :)

So if you have relatives or friends from that place, you may ask them to buy one for you. It’s a good snack and companion while working, hehe.

May 6th, 2011 by admin
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Peanut Butter and Banana Drops

I chanced upon different items as coaches gifts and all of them are indeed nice present but in case you cannot pick a perfect match for your coach, why not surprise him or her a special snacks or sweet cookies that you personally bake. Creating a personalized gift for someone is such a great idea especially if the person is close to you right? Anyway, let me share this recipe and I’m sure you will love to try this by yourself…

Ingredients:
1 16-1/2-ounce package refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough
1 cup dried banana chips, coarsely crushed
1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces
1/4 cup turbinado sugar, demerara sugar, or colored coarse sugar

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine cookie dough, banana chips, and chocolate pieces. Seal bag; knead mixture with your hands until dough is well mixed. Remove dough from bag.

2. Place sugar in a small bowl. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll balls in sugar to coat. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten balls slightly.

3. Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Transfer cookies to a wire rack; let cool. Makes about 40 cookies.

4. To Store: Layer cookies between waxed paper in an airtight container; cover. Store at room temperature for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months.

Makes: about 40 cookies
Prep: 30 minutes
Bake: 8 minutes per batch

May 6th, 2011 by admin
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Free Open Source software

I love cooking food and baking sweet goodies for my family. And I’m the type of person who wanted to explore different food recipes. Good thing there are hundreds and more free recipes on the Internet that I can follow and try at home. And aside from being a domesticated mom, I’m also into technical side. I spent my free or “me” time in front of my pc. And like food recipes, I’m glad that there are various free open source softwares that can be installed into our pc that’s useful application for everyday usage. Let me share some of my discoveries that sure help with your pc work:

GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP. Do you love taking photos then edit later on? If you answer yes, then this is the perfect free software for you. GIMP is an alternative Photoshop application that helps edit or retouch any digital images. And like PS this supports various platforms including Microsoft Wiindows, Mac OSX and GNU/Linux.

GNU Cash. As an accounting graduate I was hoping that I can have my personal software that I can use at home for my financial budgeting, etc. Hence when I discover GNUCash looks like my dream has been granted. Not to mention it’s a free software that is easy to use, flexible and perfect for everday use. This is ideal if you have small business and need to have an accounting schedule transaction.

Handbrake Video Transcoder. There are times that we need to convert a particular movie to a compatible format for our viewing pleasure. Now this is the answer for that problem. Handbrake is another free program that let you convert your favourite movie that will be compatible with your device including iPhone, iPod and other media player.

KMPlayer MultiMedia Player. If you need free multimedia player that is simple yet will playback your video quick and hassle free, then this is it. Streaming videos is among the helpful benefit of KMPlayer so if you’re into it then you will sure like this free software.

Media Player Classic. For all windows users this is just for you a free audio and video media player that is fast and uses multiple video formats. Yes this is also free software.

So these are just few of the free open source software that can be downloaded from the Internet. And I’m glad I have found them as it makes our work easy and hassle free.

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