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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 01:47pm on 12/08/2007 under , ,
Ugh, I've felt rotten ever since I went to bed last night, it seems like that cold I've been avoiding all summer long is finally catching up to me. ;__;

Anyway, have some pictures of the cupcakes I made last night )

The filling's not that visible now that they're cold... And that's a big strawberry, but still, see what I mean when I say they're really really small? The chocolate glaze wasn't as smooth as I wanted because I was out of corn syrup, but oh well, it's still oh so tasty like that.

I originally made this batch to take to the weekly family reunion, but now that I've tasted them with icing... oh man, they're so so good, and I really want them all for myself. *g*

In other news, I'm green with envy because [livejournal.com profile] dixie_pinky got to meet Zoé, omg!

ETA: Btw, I'm here in the Epilogue Meme. :)
Music:: Sussie 4 feat. León Laguerri - Remote Control
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 10:30pm on 11/08/2007 under
Remember the raspberry and chocolate cupcakes I wanted to make? Well, I couldn't find raspberries ANYWHERE. Really, it's so strange, I went looking in like, five big supermarkets, and there was not a raspberry on sight. o_O

So, instead, I made strawberry and chocolate cupcakes. OMG THEY'RE SOOOO GOOD. The strawberry puree in the actual batter makes the cake super spongy and soft, and that and the cinnamon just give it a completely different flavor than regular chocolate cupcakes. They didn't rise much, though, so filling them wasn't as dramatic as I thought it'd be (I'd been especially excited about the strawberry and cream cheese filling). I was halfway done baking when my aunt, uncle and cousin came for a visit, though, so I wasn't able to make the icing, and we all had to eat them like that. I'll finish them up tomorrow, though, before I leave to the family reunion, and I'll probably take pictures then, once they're all pretty and stuff XD

I'm gonna miss my baking spree once I get back to school and don't have time for anything at all, woe. ;___;

Anyway, teh family came here because they just came back from a trip to Europe on Friday, and, of course, they've been going all over the city visiting family to talk about the trip. It was cool, until my cousin asked what we had done while they were gone and saying '...we went to the beach.' in a low voice is kinda embarassing, lol. Man, I want some cool vacation, another cousin has just came back from Japan and a couple of others went shopping in San Antonio. *sigh* In any case, all her rambling brought back a lot of memories, and damn, but I wanna go back to Europe some day. Especially Paris. And Venice. I could so live in either of those cities.

Michelle, my cousin, is halfway through Deathly Hallows (that with being too busy visiting pretty pretty places to read, that is), and aaaaargh, I want her to finish it already so I can talk about it out loud. We did discuss a lot of what she's read though, and haha, she's totally a fangirl in training, she can sometimes be even scarier than I am XDD (She bought all of British versions in Rome, and according to my aunt, she won't even open them that much so they won't get wrinkles, lol. Me, I prefer the US version because Mary Grandpre is one hell of an illustrator.)
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 09:12pm on 07/08/2007 under , , ,
It's actually kinda sad how the highlight of my day was going out for a facial. Urgh. I really have to get out of this house, but I know that my friends would probably invite my ex if we go out (that with the nasty thing about us hanging out with the same group of people, you see), and I really don't want to see him right now so I'm kinda ignoring the ENTIRE group. Er. And my high school friends (i.e. the ones that don't know him) are nowhere to be seen. My excuse is that in three weeks time school starts again and my schedule's so tight I'll barely have time to breathe, so. I kinda do miss school a bit. I don't miss waking up early in the morning, though.

I made (yet more) cupcakes today! )

In other news, I finally picked up the book I'd abandoned when Deathly Hallows came out, El Amor En Tiempos de Cólera (Love in the times of cholera) by Gabriel García Márquez, and after hours of reading about corny, cheesy vampires, it just made it painfully obvious how badly written Twilight is, lol. (I told my mom how I was reading this really BAD but really FUNNY book and she laughed lots and lots when I told her the highlights of the book XD I'm reading the trilogy anyway, because I could seriously use the laughs.)
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 09:51pm on 31/07/2007 under
So the boy's 27 today, isn't he? Aw, so cute. :) I love that kid and his sometimes incredibly stupid plans so much. And happy birthday to JK Rowling too, without whom I'd never have discovered fandom and/or started to write fic. ♥ 

I baked chocolate chip cookies today, it was lots of fun. I left them in the oven longer than necessary, though, and they're real crunchy, while I was looking forward for chewy cookies. *sigh* Oh well, they're still tasty, and my dad, the ever loving crunchy-obsessed, said he likes them better like that anyway. It was a huge batch though, and they're pretty big cookies, so it looks like, an immense pile. o_O I guess I'll take some to flamenco class tomorrow and give them away, if only so I won't have to eat so many XD 

Huh, I saw the trailer for Alvin and the Chipmunks and while it still looks incredibly stupid (my chilhood, it's been raped!), at least they look a bit more like themselves and not like wannabe gansters. The idea of them in actual chipmunk size is horribly weird, though. o_O I used to frikkin love this show. The movie with them and the Chipettes traveling around the world was my absolute favorite when I was about, uh, five or six, don't quite remember. But I've seen it so. many. times. Even now, if I stumble across it in the tv, I see it and LOVE it. XDDD
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 09:58pm on 26/07/2007 under
My family's been made of immense LULZ as of lately. )

ANYWAY, I baked cookies today! Viennese pastries, actually, so the chocolate chip ones will have to wait a bit. As always with me, they didn't look all that great, but they're actually pretty tasty. *sigh* I really do have to work on my presentation. I think I overdid the lemon zest a bit, but otherwise they were fine. I was in a foul mood before starting (I haven't been sleeping all that well because I came back with the beach with an ear infection, thanks to a wave that knocked me down and left me with sand in places I didn't know existed. It just hurts to lay on the ear, so I have to sleep on my other side and every time I roll over (which I invariably do), it hurts a bit), so I went WHATEVER THE FUCK about the repostery chocolate I was supposed to dip the cookies in and settled for cheap Hersheys milk chocolate. I'd already done a fruitless trip to the supermarket and it was too hot to get in the car again.

Baking really is soothing for me, though, the minute I started mixing stuff I was all cheery again. *g* I want to make Spaghetti alarrabiata tomorrow, let's see how that goes.

Oh, and I saw OotP again yesterday, and thought it was win. Knowing the end of Deathly Hallows was a bit sad, though, because I kept on tearing up every time someone with a death sentence walked along on the screen. ;___; Then again, I seem to be crying over those casualties all the time as of lately, so it's not that weird. >___>
Music:: Mecano - el 7 de septiembre
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 10:27pm on 03/07/2007 under , , ,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO [livejournal.com profile] onadancefloor!!

You're just awesome, dear, and I rather miss you seeing you around on LJ on a daily-basis instead of every few weeks. Ah, well, I do hope you had a great time. :) *blows kisses*


Haha, I was searching cupcake recipes to try out tomorrow and I found a pretty yummy-sounding one of key lime - oh man, I was mesmerized by that term, I thought it was a rather special and exotic brand of lime, and then I researched and found out it's our ordinary, I-have-half-a-dozen-in-my-fridge brand of lemon. *headdesk* It did brought back memories of my junior high English teacher trying to make us get why those weird Americans (being American himself, he got used to a lot of our jokes, poor fellow) called lemon lime instead of its God-given name. Ah, the good times.

And now, thoughts about Doctor Who's new companion, i.e. big fat spoilers for series 4 )

My comfort show right now is Life on Mars, because I know that it'll always be good, and it'll make me laugh or cry or tear up or want to hug Sam real hard whatever what, so I'm serene. It's ridiculous how happy this show makes me (seriously, it's sooo so good), and that's why I've been watching it so slowly -- I just don't want it to be over. I saw 2x02 yesterday, and while it was good, it still wasn't as mind-blowing awesome as 1x08 and 2x01 were. *happy sigh*
Music:: Carl Barat & Pete Doherty - A Day In The Life
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I baked more cupcakes today! Chocolate-flavored this time, with mocha-flavored icing. They look so cute! I didn't fuck anything up this time, so they look oh so tasty and I just tried one and they are delicious! I'm so proud of myself. *sniffle* I bought chocolate chips today, so cookies are probably next in line, and then brownies. REALLY THOUGH, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? I'm no stranger to PMS, but it'd never made me want to go into a baking frenzy before. o_O

Was tempted to bash my head against a wall today when I saw vanilla extract at 15 pesos (1.5 dlls) when I bought fancy imported shit yesterday at 60 because I thought I wouldn't find it that easily in other places. *HEADDESK*

Other than that... I pretty much didn't do anything at all today. Not surprising, considering that I woke up at noon and didn't got out of bed until 1:30. *shifty eyes*

I can't stop listening to Remote Control by Sussie 4 and León Larregui - it's the next best thing to a new Zoé song, 'cause I'd bet anything that León wrote it, and I'm honestly in love with the lyrics and melody. *happy sigh* *listens to it in repeat*
Music:: Sussie 4 + León Larregui - Remote Control
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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 09:56pm on 27/06/2007 under
I made cupcakes today! It's so weird, though - I usually can't stand cooking, and I hadn't touched an oven pretty much at all since high school, when I used to sell cookies with the argument that they buyers would be helping a poor child to feed herself, which was then followed by sad puppy eyes and batting eyelashes, but even then, my dad used to help me everytime, so it was my first time baking completely by myself.

The actual cupcake was delicious, all fluffy and pretty looking - I got the recipe from this blog, but the icing was a complete disaster. I forgot to mix the butter and the shortening until it fot fluffy before adding the powdered sugar, and it, ugh, what's the term in English... 'se cortó', whatever, and it was pretty yucky lucking. Still, my dad had two in a row and my brother, who had been mocking them steadily for half an hour, had to admit grudgingly that he liked it. In all, it was a lot of fun, and I plan on baking a lot now that I'm on vacation and have nothing better to do.

Will get more icing recipes and try again, because I'm nothing if not determined.

Other than that, I spent my evening laughing my ass off reading this blog about passive-agressive notes. Being a bit of a passive-agressive myself, I found it just hilarious.
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