My Dear Mr. James,

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

blue potato and chinese sausage getting sauteed in olive oil and thyme before joining chickpeas and leek soup

we thought the blue potatoes were really pretty (we bought it at the jesus market), and we've had these chinese sausages in the fridge for a long time already, so i thought i'd spruce up left-over chickpeas and leek soup with these. no idea how it comes out, still on the stove, sure is pretty tho against the pale green and yellow of soup.

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portioned, marzipanned, decorated, and wrapped the christmas cake.

so we decided to share one of our home-made fruitcakes with our neighbors (we still have one soaking in brandy). charles made marzipan from scratch (very good).

we went to the east village to get a present for one of our neighbors' new baby, then to broadway panhandler and got those green and red bits for cake decoration (above photo). we weren't gonna get anything from there - one of those things where "oh it's just there, let's see what they have" and of course we walked out with the cake decorations, a spatula, and an all-clad roasting pan.

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

early christmas present from the sims

we were just about to have our coq-au-vin (photo above, burning in brandy flames before going in the oven), after a recipe from the two fat ladies, when the sim family (our neighbors from upstairs) came over and gave us early christmas gifts - japanese desserts. shown on top is white chocolate mochi covered in green tea powder

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Friday, December 13, 2013

eating mini christmas cake at 2:30am

© Joselito Briones
whoever said that patience is a virtue obviously doesn't know the smell of baking christmas cake. this is fresh from the oven, and is supposed to be drip-drowned in brandy for days before consumption, but i'm eating it now. the large, proper-sized version is still in the oven (charles and i started baking late at 10pm), hopefully that one will last until christmas.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

late for the party

Man running on roof top with balloons in New York's Lower East Side via Stocksy United

this one's from a recent shoot for stocksy united. we have this thing going on where someone in the creative team (brianna?) suggests a trendy topic to shoot, and one of them was balloons. was a few weeks back but am only starting to get back my momentum in doing shoots, so - ah well, as they say, better late than fat.

in the photo is alek sandar

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