no black or white
its been quite some time since i baked something, therefore i was looking for something simple and easy without complicated or expensive ingredients. knowing that i have some carrots left in the kitchen, i remembered that somewhere in all my bookmarked recipes lies a really exciting carrot cake recipe that comes with a pecan cream cheese frosting.
when i say simple and easy, mark my words. its like baking a traditional butter cake but the only difference is mixing in a whole bunch of shredded carrots into the batter. the shreds of bright orange colour against the cream white batter is beautiful. after baking in the oven for around half and hour the kitchen is filled with a light aroma of baking butter, sugar eggs and flour.
one thing i am not really satisfied about is that the carroty taste and fragrance is damn light. well i know that carrots are light tasting vegetables, just like making apple and cinnamon muffins where you can hardly taste the apple. well i guess one way is to add in some carrot juice and increase the amount of flour needed.
baking aside i found myself buried in a new novel. it story tells about the babylonians seige in 586 bc that crush the judah empire and how a prophet managed to salvage the ark of the covenent and stash it in some tomb near mount sinai. and how in 1998, well although the novel is on the new arrivals shelve the original novel which was written in italian was published back then.
as i was saying the book tells of an excavation in 1998 and how it concerns the people and faith of jerusalem. i knew where that city was and besides that nothing more, curious i did a searh on flickr and gosh, such a beautiful city. seriously i wanna visit this place man, but with the region being kinda in a unstable condition i guess hopefully by the time i end my ns it would be more ideal to visit. japan can step aside for the time being.
when i say simple and easy, mark my words. its like baking a traditional butter cake but the only difference is mixing in a whole bunch of shredded carrots into the batter. the shreds of bright orange colour against the cream white batter is beautiful. after baking in the oven for around half and hour the kitchen is filled with a light aroma of baking butter, sugar eggs and flour.
one thing i am not really satisfied about is that the carroty taste and fragrance is damn light. well i know that carrots are light tasting vegetables, just like making apple and cinnamon muffins where you can hardly taste the apple. well i guess one way is to add in some carrot juice and increase the amount of flour needed.
baking aside i found myself buried in a new novel. it story tells about the babylonians seige in 586 bc that crush the judah empire and how a prophet managed to salvage the ark of the covenent and stash it in some tomb near mount sinai. and how in 1998, well although the novel is on the new arrivals shelve the original novel which was written in italian was published back then.
as i was saying the book tells of an excavation in 1998 and how it concerns the people and faith of jerusalem. i knew where that city was and besides that nothing more, curious i did a searh on flickr and gosh, such a beautiful city. seriously i wanna visit this place man, but with the region being kinda in a unstable condition i guess hopefully by the time i end my ns it would be more ideal to visit. japan can step aside for the time being.
posted by Ian at 9:20 PM
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