5/25/2008
5/15/2008
5/05/2008
4/20/2008
Wild life in the city
With the summery weather of the week-end, we took advantage of the temperature to the fullest and went on walks by the river. Yesterday we saw ducks and a turtle, but today we saw a BEAVER!!! BTW, when Felix told me he had seen a beaver jump from the ice unto the water, I was sure he had seen another type of animal. How could a beaver be in the city!!! Yet we spotted it about 2 minutes later.
4/05/2008
Now it's Mountain Dew cupcakes...
Found on All Things Cupcakes
Mountain Dew Cupcakes
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
3/4 cup Mountain Dew
1/4 cup of lemon and lime juice (juice from 1 lemon and 1 lime)
zest from 1 lemon and 2 limes (separate into 2 piles, one for buttercream)
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon extract
2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1. Beat butter on medium for 30 seconds.
2. Add sugar and lemon, lime zest. Beat on medium-high until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs one at a time, Scrape sides of bowl in between additions
4. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Add to mixer bowl. Turn on low for 5 seconds.
5. Add the Mountain Dew, lemon/lime juice, and lemon extract . Mix to combine.
5. Scoop into cupcake papers about two-thirds full.
6. Bake for 18-20 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean.
Mountain Dew Buttercream
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
4-5 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons Mountain Dew
Juices from half of 1 lemon and half of 1 lime.
Lemon and lime zest (rest of zest from cupcake recipe. Or zest from half of 1 lemon and 1 whole lime)
1 teaspoon lemon extract
neon green food coloring (yellow and blue if you dont have green)
1. Sift powdered sugar into a bowl or onto parchment
2. Beat butter at medium-high speed until creamy
3. Add half of the sugar, turn mixer on low for 5 seconds.
4. Add the Mountain Dew, zest, and lemon extract . Beat until combined.
5. Add food coloring to the desired color.
6. Gradually add remaining sugar until you get to the consistency and sweetness you like.
From Clever Cupcake in Montreal - Kool-Aid buttercream
Grape Kool Aid Buttercream
2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
4 single serving grape kool aid packets
1/4 cup boiling water
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup trans fat free crisco
Place powdered sugar and kool aid in bowl of mixer and pour boiling water over top. Mix at high speed using whip attachment until mixture is cooled to room temperature. Add butter and crisco then whip at high speed for 10 minutes. Add optional blue food colouring.
2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
4 single serving grape kool aid packets
1/4 cup boiling water
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup trans fat free crisco
Place powdered sugar and kool aid in bowl of mixer and pour boiling water over top. Mix at high speed using whip attachment until mixture is cooled to room temperature. Add butter and crisco then whip at high speed for 10 minutes. Add optional blue food colouring.
Wow... Chocolate Cherry Dr Pepper cupcakes...
I admit I am NOT a fan of the chocolate cherry Dr Pepper but the cupcakes sound pretty interesting...
Cupcake jewelry
I'm used to Swatch watches, but the bracelets always end up cracking, splitting and breaking. This cupcake watch is too cute!!! sadly it is OUT OF STOCK!!!
What about a cupcake ring? I soooooo want it! But it is twice the price of the watch :s
What about a cupcake ring? I soooooo want it! But it is twice the price of the watch :s
Two colour cupcake icing...
Dulcedo shows us how to do a two-toned swirl icing. It's not that I haven't tried before, but maybe I was doing it wrong...
Must try... from Martha's cupcake week
The Meyer lemon cupcakes from Vanilla Bakeshop
Meyer Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes
Ingredients
Makes 2 dozen
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean, scraped
5 large eggs, separated
1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
1 cup plus scant 1/3 cup cake flour (not self-rising)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
Meyer Lemon Curd
Vanilla Bean Buttercream
Sanding sugar
24 raspberries
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 standard muffin tins with cupcake liners; set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add vanilla; beat to combine. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Sift together both flours, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. With the mixer on low, add flour mixture; mix until well combined. Add sour cream; mix until well combined.
In a clean bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into batter.
Fill each muffin cup half full with batter. Transfer muffin tins to oven and bake until a skewer inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean, 20 to 24 minutes. Let cupcakes cool completely.
Using an apple corer, make a hole in the top of each cupcake, taking care not to push the corer through the bottom; remove cake from hole. Fill a squirt bottle with lemon curd and squeeze curd into holes.
Fit a pastry bag with a 3/8-inch plain round tip and fill with buttercream. Pipe buttercream in a circular motion on top of each cupcake; sprinkle with sanding sugar. Pipe a dollop of buttercream in the center of each cupcake and top with a raspberry.
Meyer Lemon Curd
Makes enough for 2 dozen cupcakes
1 cup sugar
Zest of 3 lemons
3 large eggs
4 large egg yolks
1 cup Meyer lemon juice
5 ounces unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
Directions
Prepare and ice-water bath. Set a medium bowl in ice-water bath and set aside.
Place sugar and lemon zest in a mortar and grind with a pestle to combine and release the oils. Transfer sugar mixture to a medium heatproof bowl along with eggs and egg yolks; whisk to combine. Place over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk until sugar has dissolved. Add lemon juice and continue whisking until mixture is thick and reaches 160 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary. Add butter and whisk until well combined.
Strain lemon mixture through a fine mesh sieve set over prepared bowl. Cover lemon curd with plastic wrap, pressing plastic wrap directly onto surface. Transfer to refrigerator until completely chilled.
Meyer Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes
Ingredients
Makes 2 dozen
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean, scraped
5 large eggs, separated
1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
1 cup plus scant 1/3 cup cake flour (not self-rising)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
Meyer Lemon Curd
Vanilla Bean Buttercream
Sanding sugar
24 raspberries
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 standard muffin tins with cupcake liners; set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add vanilla; beat to combine. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Sift together both flours, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. With the mixer on low, add flour mixture; mix until well combined. Add sour cream; mix until well combined.
In a clean bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into batter.
Fill each muffin cup half full with batter. Transfer muffin tins to oven and bake until a skewer inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean, 20 to 24 minutes. Let cupcakes cool completely.
Using an apple corer, make a hole in the top of each cupcake, taking care not to push the corer through the bottom; remove cake from hole. Fill a squirt bottle with lemon curd and squeeze curd into holes.
Fit a pastry bag with a 3/8-inch plain round tip and fill with buttercream. Pipe buttercream in a circular motion on top of each cupcake; sprinkle with sanding sugar. Pipe a dollop of buttercream in the center of each cupcake and top with a raspberry.
Meyer Lemon Curd
Makes enough for 2 dozen cupcakes
1 cup sugar
Zest of 3 lemons
3 large eggs
4 large egg yolks
1 cup Meyer lemon juice
5 ounces unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
Directions
Prepare and ice-water bath. Set a medium bowl in ice-water bath and set aside.
Place sugar and lemon zest in a mortar and grind with a pestle to combine and release the oils. Transfer sugar mixture to a medium heatproof bowl along with eggs and egg yolks; whisk to combine. Place over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk until sugar has dissolved. Add lemon juice and continue whisking until mixture is thick and reaches 160 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary. Add butter and whisk until well combined.
Strain lemon mixture through a fine mesh sieve set over prepared bowl. Cover lemon curd with plastic wrap, pressing plastic wrap directly onto surface. Transfer to refrigerator until completely chilled.
3/28/2008
3/27/2008
Make your own water bottle tripod!!!
Super cool...
Or the homemade version of the Gorrilapop
DIY Water-bottle Tripod - Amazing videos are here at Lifehacker
3/24/2008
Hockey season is out... Now is baseball registration time...
But first, I need to find info on teams, boy it's tough. Their's the NDG team, Lasalle, nothing to be found other then a phone number...Ligue mineure de baseball LaSalle – 514 367-5477. Verdun has a team too. With the nice baseball park at the Gadbois center, I can't see how their wouldn't be a team in our neighborhood... Here are the teams I've found for Montreal... nothing around our home :( Little Burgandy has a Midget team only, no little ones, sigh. It appears we don't live in the right area of the city.
3/06/2008
Kitchen decoration...
Ok, I've found THE subway tile for our kitchen. I will have to morn the loss of our vintage textured wallpaper, but I thing this tile will do a good job.
Now to find the perfect cabinets...
Now to find the perfect cabinets...
3/03/2008
Tye-died cheesecake...
I must try this cheesecake
Site à explorer... http://marieaunet.hautetfort.com/qu_est_ce_qu_on_mange_/
Site à explorer... http://marieaunet.hautetfort.com/qu_est_ce_qu_on_mange_/
3/02/2008
Off to the sugar shack!
Demain est la journee d'anniversaire de mon pere. Depuis environ 5 ans nous allons a la cabane pour son anniversaire. Nous allons donc visiter la cabane Les 3 gourmands. Photos et commentaires a suivre....
2/26/2008
Petits gateaux pain doré et sirop d'érable...
Petits gateaux pain doré
Ingredients:
1 1/2 tasse de farine tout usage
1 1/2 c. the de poudre à pate
1/2 c. the cannelle
1/4 c. the sel
1 tasse de sucre (ou sucre d'erable si utilisation de sirop, reduire le babeurre)
1/2 tasse de beurre fondu et refroidi
2 oeufs
1 c. the extrait de siro d'érable
1/2 tasse de babeurre
1. Chauffer le four a 350F, preparer les moules a gateaux
2. Dans un grand bol, battre ensemble le beurre, le sucre et les oeufs. Ajouter ensuite l'extrait d'erable.
3. Dans un bol moyen, melanger les ingredients secs.
4. Incorporer les ingredients secs en alternant avec le liquide.
5. Deposer le melange dans les moules et cuire de 20-25 minutes ou jusqu'a ce que le dessus des gateaux soit doré et rebondisse au touché.
6. Faire refroidir complètement les gateaux sur une grille avant de les décorer.
Crème au beurre à l'érable
Préparer sa recette favorite en ajoutant 2 c. table de sucre brun et 2 c. table de sirop d'erable (par contre, l'extrait donne un gout plus prononcer...)
Garniture 1/4 tasse de noix hachées
Ingredients:
1 1/2 tasse de farine tout usage
1 1/2 c. the de poudre à pate
1/2 c. the cannelle
1/4 c. the sel
1 tasse de sucre (ou sucre d'erable si utilisation de sirop, reduire le babeurre)
1/2 tasse de beurre fondu et refroidi
2 oeufs
1 c. the extrait de siro d'érable
1/2 tasse de babeurre
1. Chauffer le four a 350F, preparer les moules a gateaux
2. Dans un grand bol, battre ensemble le beurre, le sucre et les oeufs. Ajouter ensuite l'extrait d'erable.
3. Dans un bol moyen, melanger les ingredients secs.
4. Incorporer les ingredients secs en alternant avec le liquide.
5. Deposer le melange dans les moules et cuire de 20-25 minutes ou jusqu'a ce que le dessus des gateaux soit doré et rebondisse au touché.
6. Faire refroidir complètement les gateaux sur une grille avant de les décorer.
Crème au beurre à l'érable
Préparer sa recette favorite en ajoutant 2 c. table de sucre brun et 2 c. table de sirop d'erable (par contre, l'extrait donne un gout plus prononcer...)
Garniture 1/4 tasse de noix hachées
testing video AGAIN - Let's see if it works...
I finally figured out how to post clips! how smart... took me too long. Not impressed with myself. Anywhoo, this was trying out the new camcorder. cr@p, didn't upload again...
How about some more old school...
Groove Family Cyco that is! Some guys from Suicidal Tendencies, way cool.
Old school... on my iPod...
I just got some CDs to put some "new" music on my iPod. I just found my Furnaceface CD. Soooooo cool. Here's a video I found on YouTube. The sound is really crap, but it's them. Sooooo cool! BTW they are from Ottawa!
2/18/2008
Reminder to myself...
Some blogs I need to visit some more
http://www.eatmedelicious.com/2007/08/amazing-whole-wheat-pizza-crust.html
http://www.eatmedelicious.com/2007/08/amazing-whole-wheat-pizza-crust.html
2/17/2008
2/15/2008
New blog discovery...
I'm inspired! Gotta get more butter and get baking... actually, maybe I should scrapbook... argh. Either way, I won't be getting any exercise done. Sigh.
2/10/2008
Scrapbook products new or old?
I am just loving these
chipboard by Scenic Route, they also have the acrylic stamps...
can't wait to get my hands on these!What about the crowns?
And the birds? 
The also have butterflies and hearts!
Regarder mon clown jr... /Look at my clown in training...
En passant, j'adore ce t-shirt à tête de mort que j'ai déniché chez H&M, ils ont tellemet des vêtements "cool" pour les enfants!!
I simply adore the skully t-shirt I recently got for Miss C at H&M, they have such cool kiddy clothing!
I simply adore the skully t-shirt I recently got for Miss C at H&M, they have such cool kiddy clothing!
2/01/2008
Photos de piscine!
Les photos ont ete prises a la piscine ou habite l'amie de Charlotte, c'etait une fete d'anniversaire. 
Ces photos ont quant a elles été prises à l'hôtel lors d'une visite expresse à Ottawa! Nous n'avons même pas été assez longtemps pour vister les boutiques ou ma copine :(
Ces photos ont quant a elles été prises à l'hôtel lors d'une visite expresse à Ottawa! Nous n'avons même pas été assez longtemps pour vister les boutiques ou ma copine :(
Coupe de cheveux de la semaine derniere! Last week's haircut
Il semble que dans la confusion du rendez-vous raté (encore une fois...) nous ayons oublié de prendre une photo "apres" de Felix, donc voici les photos de Miss C.!
1/01/2008
Third Snow Storm of the Season
Here are some pictures of the third freakin snow storm of the season. We had plans to go to Ottawa tomorrow, but the snow is still falling. I don't know what the roads will be like tomorrow, sigh.
See the horned snow angel
See the horned snow angel
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