Vanilla Soufflé

I love soufflé. Always have. My first chocolate soufflé was at Roy’s in Maui. Yum. Salt Creek Grille makes a pretty good one, too. So of course, I couldn’t help but skip to the back part of my cookbook to make a soufflé.



After the whole experience, I love soufflé even more. It’s an absolute joy to make and bake.

Baby Quilt

Finished a baby quilt for my coworker’s new baby girl. I kept it simple and used one print in the front and one print in the back.

Quiche Lorraine

You’re looking at 5 strips of bacon. Bacon smells sooooo good when you cook it. I mean, what  isn’t there to love? Fatty pork cooked in its own fat….yummmmy.

In Julia Child’s recipe, she says to boil the bacon before browning. Why? To get rid of the smokey smell. Now who would want to do that? And, it wasn’t just bacon, it was Trader Joe’s applewood smoked bacon. Who would want to get rid of the applewood smoke flavor? So we skipped the boiling! How un-Frenchish of us.

Hope Valley Mixer Cover

You know how people with fabric addition issues (like me) always figure out reasons to buy more? Well, that’s how it was with me and Denise Schmidt’s Hope Valley. It was available some time before Christmas, and I knew I had to have it.

So I ordered some fat quarters. More like one of every print and colorway of the line.

A Disneyland Birthday!

Last week, I turned 26, and dragged Dickson to Disneyland for the day! This year, Disneyland had this (smart) promotion where you can get in on your birthday for free (with valid ID, of course). Everyone who came on their birthday got a nice button/pin thing to wear with their name written on it. There were SO many people there celebrating birthdays! From the young to the old, it was so cool! I guess I’m not so special…