Stolen from Badder Homes & Gardens: Ingredients: Ganache I quart heavy cream 3 lbs bittersweet chocolate, chopped 1 1/2 sticks cold butter, cut into tablespoons Pinch of salt Truffle Flavorings 1 1/2 tablespoons dark rum 4 teaspoons pure peppermint oil 1 tablespoon pure vanilla 1 teaspoon ground cardamon Options for…
I attended one of PCC‘s craft workshops, on fused glass, last Wednesday. It was a pretty fun time, and I think several of the pieces I made will turn out pretty nicely. (I hope so, anyway!) I could definitely see myself getting into doing fused glass regularly, once I have…
It’s time, folks. I haven’t run this by Dale, yet, but I’m proposing that brewing should happen on March 7. I won’t have any homework due that week, since it’s spring break, and I don’t work that Saturday (I do work that Sunday night, though, bleh). Anyone want to come…
I do try to keep this blog mostly to the point–and the point, at least until I graduate, is the experience of library school for a trained engineer–but this is important! I’m getting back into homebrewing. It’s been too long. Besides, in fighting (failing to fight?) my lack of motivation…
I’ve been meaning to give an updated run-down of the classes I’m taking and my general opinions of them, but school and life and bronchitis (yeah, again, but I’m on the mend) got in the way, like they do. To make it up to you–and because I am waiting for…
I’ve started a few posts in my head, but only today did I realize that I didn’t, you know, post any of them. It turned out that I didn’t have the kind of down-time I expected to have during the break: classes (and projects) ran until the 11th, work kept…
I used to love the first day of school, as a kid. Not really the second day or onward, mind, but the first was always pretty fun. There I was, with some brand new school gear, meeting up with a bunch of people I hadn’t seen since the end of…