I made this cake for my sister’s 21st party she is a patisserie chef in training, so it was a daunting task to begin with, she gave me tips for doing the cake covering, naturally things still went wrong, but the rescue attempt from my ever so vaguely artistic brain came into action and it [...]
All posts for the month August, 2009
How to cover a cake in chocolate and then rescue the ensuing mess
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on August 29, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/08/29/how-to-cover-a-cake-in-chocolate-and-then-rescue-the-ensuing-mess/
Infographic of my life
One of my classes this semester is on Information and Interface design, we are primarily looking at information graphics and I’m loving it. It’s quite a lovely partnership of rational facts, logic, finding relationships between data and visual output. The first project was to create an info-graphic based on our lives, to encompass family, education, [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on August 26, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/08/26/infographic-of-my-life/
Weight and embodied water
A little while back I talked about Wii Fit Routines, since then I have used the wii fit relatively frequently – not quite as often as I’d have hoped but we’re getting there and definitely more effectively. Although no massive weight change, my efforts have paid off in how well I can do particular things [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on August 26, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/08/26/weight-and-embodied-water/
Book Club: Popular Penguins
Last night saw the roll out of Cat and my brainchild. A bookclub that takes it’s material from the Popular Penguin books, mostly because they are cheap, readily available and on the whole with only a few exceptions entirely fantastic. There are twelve of us – largish group really, but despite not everyone knowing each [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on August 18, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/08/18/book-club-popular-penguins/
Poppy Seed Cake or Perhaps Pie
A cafe I frequent sometimes serves possibly the best pie/cake thing on the planet. It’s entirely full of poppy-seeds, not too sweet, not too savory, it has a cake/pie type crust and for the life of me I cannot work out what it is in it. I have scoured Google to not too much avail [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on August 15, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/08/15/poppy-seed-cake-or-perhaps-pie/
