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Remy's been possessed.

Oh no!

Hopefully not by the spirit if a volatile cat.

leaving for HSTNGS bump

NEVER A GOOD DECISION

It's good for me. (Because then I am entertained by you all.)

ugh there's only so much Baldur's Gate you can play before you want to just start drinking heavily

Well get to it then.

Still in HSTNGS. I'm not sure where John *thinks* I should have gone today, but since I got a turkey dinner out of it, I'm not going to complain. Also, my 88 year old grandma is awesome.

Yay for grannies!

DID YOU DO A WEE IN HER FLANGE

-- GARU G (GARU...), October 17th, 2004 8:21 AM. (later)

remy... ????

xpost Yes, grandmothers >>>>> mothers. (I say this fully aware that I am one and not the other, mind).

Now we're at home and going to put the kids to bed and then sit around and watch movies or something. Totally anticlimactic! This kind of holiday always leaves me feeling kind of at a loss at the end of it.

sorry, i had to spend an entire day keeping myself in check around family. i will aim to be better behaved

itr appreciates bad behaviour.

Remy merely puts in a wonderful link to a glorious past. Kinda.

it puts the lotion on the skin

I am happy to be befuddled by you all.

One hour bored bump

just got off the phone with my sister after an hour planning her nuptial ceremony ... and good lordy do the catering/reception places hose you down for $$$ -- $100/head, for a three-course meal of chicken breast/ribeye/scallops?

hah when my sis got married they gave two choices only to keep things cheaper: chicken or vegetarian (a polenta dish). both were fantastic. simple is good :)

i think she is looking at a reception here, but with my dad officiating the ceremony here, and with yours truly taking care of the cake.

Are you baking a wedding cake for your sister, remy? That is so cool!

(A. made wedding cheesecakes for his sisters' wedding, which was cool but also not remotely decorative in that way that wedding cakes usually are)

this is the practice cake

pretty!!!!!

And what did you do with the practice cake?

beautiful, remy!

remy, do you think you could make a cake like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/424297459_4f1e8a80fc.jpg

omg your practice cake was gorgeous, remy!

Rubyredd - that is SUPER cute.

i could make a cake like that, rubyredd, woodringy and all, but i really abhor fondant. i am currently experimenting with moldable white chocolate for draping, but it is difficult stuff and v. temperature sensitive.

mas aqui sobre torta

I love the way fondant looks, but have never tried it - BUT everyone always says it is not enjoyable. But I just want the chance to TRY IT.

My cousin had a tiny fondant-covered cake for her wedding last summer, but the cake they served was sheet cake with a totally different icing. I don't know if it was a cost thing or what, but I was a bit disappointed.

btw, my wedding cake was frosted with white frosting but it was a chocolate cake. Worked fine.

white chocolate always seems too sweet to me.

fondant is nasty foul stuff with an alarming kinship to fetal drywall.

Whoa... ugh. Maybe I don't want to try it.

no, you really don't

is fondant like marzipan?

I really did enjoy reading through that, though. LOL about the cake stand that was a lazy susan and two copies of The Canterbury Tales...

marzipan is unbelievably awesome.

(So I assume not!) xpost

marzipan is mostly sugar, about 5% almond, quite flavored and crumbly-moldable.

fondant is supersaturated sugar with corn syrup/some other glucose interfering with the crystal formation, it is mostly flavorless and smooth-moldable

i really want that woodring cake for my wedding.

wood cake

xpost That would be unique and fun (regardless of the taste of the fondant)!

When I got married, I had no concept about what kind of cake we might want. It was fun to go around tasting them at bakeries, though.

i want a chocolate wedding cake, none of this traditional fucking fruitcake bullshit we have here in nz.

Okay, why would people have fruitcake? That is just mental.

In the U.S. "traditional wedding cake" = dry white cake with white frosting of some kind. But I like the chocolate under white frostings (especially if it has some other element like, say, raspberry filling...). Also, I've seen photos of GORGEOUS chocolate wedding cakes with chocolate frosting. If I were getting married now I would totally look at that option and forget the traditional bullshit.

sara chocolate under white frosting is genius and, if i ever get married and actually have the whole reception to-do, i will most definitely have a chocolate cake! though maybe not white frosting. my sister actually had green frosting, which sounds kind of gross but it looked beautiful.

fondant is an abomination, though it looks really nice.

tehresa, I wish I could see a picture of the cake with the green frosting!

I love you to death for calling chocolate under white frosting "genius" - at the time it just seemed like a good compromise between tradition and something people might like to eat. I wish I had a scanner; I would post a photo. I highly recommend the combination for your potential future wedding reception!

So fondant must be popular on looks alone. I've never heard anyone say they liked it.

http://xs225.xs.to/xs225/08131/5197-01415.jpg
hueg picture

close up
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5392/519703qa1.jpg

bedtime bump

All this cakes are awesome.

I go off to eat fucking chocolate now bump.

Up strangely early but not scarily so. I think it's the warm weather. Of which I am most fond.

We had three layers of wedding cake:

Lemon raspberry
Chocolate Grand Marnier
White chocolate strawberry

all was very very yum but the place that made our cake went ouf of business ;_;