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rebeccmeisterOn Saturday, I baked a double layer chocolate cake for a friend's birthday party, thereby using up all of the canola oil and almost all of the cocoa powder:
I believe this recipe came from my Cafe Farmer roommate, RH. The next challenge was, how to transport it by bicycle to the birthday party? I strapped a picnic basket onto the back of Froinlavin (the Jolly Roger is STILL awaiting the arrival of new tires), and stuck the cake inside, with a bowl over the top to protect it.
It survived well enough to still have a cake shape upon my arrival:
Not the most cosmetic cake, but it made up for that in its utter deliciousness. Richly chocolatey. I'm still liking the cooked-flour frosting recipe I found, after hearing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sytharin talk about it.
Here's the freshly repotted satsuma tree, plus its (droopy) poblano pepper companion:
You can probably tell why I was eager to transplant it out of the plastic pot. The whiskey barrel is sitting on a plant stand I constructed from a piece of plywood and some caster wheels capable of supporting 500 pounds. Seemed like a wise idea.
And, the compost project:
I filled all three of the pictured containers with excellent compost. I hope the sight of the heap pleases my mom, who helped me put it together in the first place. Stuff has been decomposing nicely, although I wasn't able to get in and turn it as much as I would have liked, due to the (now gone) fencing put up to keep out Luna, who also really liked compost, as it turned out.
I believe this recipe came from my Cafe Farmer roommate, RH. The next challenge was, how to transport it by bicycle to the birthday party? I strapped a picnic basket onto the back of Froinlavin (the Jolly Roger is STILL awaiting the arrival of new tires), and stuck the cake inside, with a bowl over the top to protect it.
It survived well enough to still have a cake shape upon my arrival:
Not the most cosmetic cake, but it made up for that in its utter deliciousness. Richly chocolatey. I'm still liking the cooked-flour frosting recipe I found, after hearing
sytharin talk about it.Here's the freshly repotted satsuma tree, plus its (droopy) poblano pepper companion:
You can probably tell why I was eager to transplant it out of the plastic pot. The whiskey barrel is sitting on a plant stand I constructed from a piece of plywood and some caster wheels capable of supporting 500 pounds. Seemed like a wise idea.
And, the compost project:
I filled all three of the pictured containers with excellent compost. I hope the sight of the heap pleases my mom, who helped me put it together in the first place. Stuff has been decomposing nicely, although I wasn't able to get in and turn it as much as I would have liked, due to the (now gone) fencing put up to keep out Luna, who also really liked compost, as it turned out.
