CAKE!!!

Filed Under (Photography, Recipes, cake, food, frosting, tabletop) by Christey on 19-06-2008

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For the past, oh, 6 months this word has been the one word that has been most prevalent in my head; “CAKE!!!”

I have been on a Just-Had-2-Kids-in-2-Years-and-Want-My-Body-Back Diet, for the past 6 months (lost 26 lbs, have 9 more to go ;) ). Because of this, my head yells ‘CAKE!!!’ at me way too often.
Seriously, you have no idea.

So far I have been able to silent this, but today I started looking at that chocolate chip muffin recipe I took off a blog (I really wish I knew whose), printed out and stuck on the refrigerator to make for the kids (yeah, the kids. The same kids that made me fat). I then started to hit the pantry and hidden places for ingredients for, first the muffins, but then I found the white cake mix box (!!!!), but no frosting.

However, I married into, not only a cooking family, but a baking family as well.
JACKPOT!
Peter’s grandmother has made everyone’s wedding cakes from scratch for years, she even made ours.
The frosting is to DIE for. Seriously. I never knew that frosting was so simple, or consisted of so. much. fat.

So I pulled out the family cookbook and looked up her frosting recipe and then asked Peter to make it for me if I make the cake (cause it is really easy, but I do not have patience to read the whole damn recipe, so I glanced it over and begged Peter, I’m like that.)

This is what I ended up with:

Sweet sweet heaven, I tell ya.
The cake, even though white and I was really looking forward to chocolate, but I am not that close with the pantry gods, so this is all they provided me (and I am very grateful, i promise), was soo good and fluffy. The frosting was SUPER fluffy and mocha chocolately (we followed the chocolate frosting part).

I am now very very stuffed and I think I have had my cake fix for the next two years. Except there is an entire cake still sitting here to eat. So I guess I have to finish it up for dinner and breakfast and lunch tomorrow. There is no reason for that kind of waste.

cakey goodness recipe

Camping food!

Filed Under (Photography, food, tabletop) by Christey on 12-05-2008

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We went camping this weekend at Oscar Scherer State Park in Sarasota, Florida with some family and friends. Though Peter didn’t cook anything, I did shoot some shots that were more like snapshots than anything but it was so good that I wanted to share it here.

We missed the hobo pies that were made on Friday night, as we didn’t even get there till 11PM, so I will start with Saturday morning where we had sausage and scrambled eggs:

In here, much more food including amazing ribs!

Spices and garlic

Filed Under (Photography, food, studio, tabletop) by Christey on 29-02-2008

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Lobster Roll

Filed Under (Photography, food, tabletop) by Christey on 17-01-2008

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and lobster bisque

Papaya

Filed Under (Photography, food, studio, tabletop) by Christey on 09-01-2008

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Pineapple

Filed Under (Photography, food, studio, tabletop) by Christey on 02-01-2008

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