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Had a treat from hubby today. He brought me a BBQ pork Vietnamese sandwich and a three color drink.
I like Lee’s Sandwiches baguette they use for the sandwich instead of a big bread roll. They also always have the right amount of pickled veggies and fresh jalapenos. The three color drink was yummy too.
Not sure what’s going on with the kitties but Maxwell and Misu usually do not get along but recently we’ve found them sleeping together.
I wonder if Maxwell is just really cold or Misu has finally calmed down so that Maxwell tolerates him.
So silly Misu got himself tangled up with a paper bag. I was already in bed and Ron had fallen asleep on the couch until he heard some rustling. He awoke to find Misu had somehow gotten the handle of a small brown paper bag around his body. He had probably been sniffing in the bag then perhaps got startled and jerked his head up and ripped off the handle… but we couldn’t figure out how he ended up getting it around his body and not just around his neck…
Then Ron helped him get move it back to his neck so he could shake it off.
I woke up to find the ripped paper bag on my desk and the camera with these photos.
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Spent a nice afternoon at Ghirardelli Square at Crown & Crumpet for a bridal shower. Sorry no pictures of the tea party of my own since one of the bridesmaids took all the pictures.
Crown & Crumpet is a very cute tea house, the third I’ve been to in SF. First was Secret Garden and second time at Samovar Tea Lounge. Their scones were delicious and they had this really nice strawberry fields green tea, light with a hint of strawberry flavor.
It was a beautiful day in SF so I walked down to the water while I waited for Ron to pick me up.
I didn’t get up early enough to walk the Bay to Breakers but I heard it was quite the event.
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I still have not been to Tartine Bakery but have been wanting to try out this recipe for their Devil’s Food Layer Cake. My friend PK asked us over for a dinner party/birthday party for her husband, so the perfect occasion for baking a decadent cake!
The original recipe is here.
Altered a bit in that I didn’t have two cake pans so used two different sized springform pans. Plus I messed up on the chocolate ganache. I didn’t use bittersweet chocolate but instead used unsweetened chocolate+sugar. It didn’t set up right in the cream so I ended up making a chocolate whipped cream to use instead.
Here is the first three layers with the caramel sauce on this layer. I even made my own fresh caramel sauce! On top of the caramel sauce will be the chocolate whipped cream then the last layer of cake.
Then the entire cake is frosted with the remaining chocolate whipped cream, decorated with fresh raspberries and a message. Finished product:
The lopsided look is from the two difference sized springform cake pans I used, a 10″ and 9″. Next time if I want the tiered look, I think I’ll need to use the 10″ and the 8″ so there is more of a size difference.
PK made some fresh strawberry ice cream that went perfectly with this dense cake, without it, eating an entire slice would have been very difficult.