back to weekly sketches

it's been a long sleep, but i'm back

the sketch-a-day project i did for a year ended quite a while ago. actually almost a year to this date, which i'll admit makes the fact i haven't posted much since then pretty sad.

coming up with ideas to sketch everyday and getting them online was a bit of a challenging, but i'd like to try and get back to doing some regular sketching and upload a couple a week. 

at this point no one, except maybe a handful of people from china from what the view statistics claim, is actually looking at my blog, so instead of humoring myself with these blurry words on this white screen (its late...) i'm going to just go ahead and throw down a drawing.

enjoy!

a tart tart tatin

tonight while casually keeping watch on the san francisco giants third victory over the texas rangers (kacie's boyfriend alan is a huge baseball fan) i lovingly attended to some tart tatin. tart tatin is a french apple pie of sorts. making this dessert involves cooking apples in butter and sugar on the stove top till the juices have begun to thicken. then its covered with blitz puff dough and baked off in the oven where the crust achieves a flaky golden brown. once out of the oven the whole thing is inverted onto a serving dish.

the initial cook on the stove top allows the apples to caramelize giving the tart its unique flavor. i threw a few dried sour cherries in this time for kicks, but in hindsight would have liked to soak them in brandy beforehand for they ended up a little chewy. they also covered up the decorative apple arrangement that i constructed while filling the pan, but overall it was a success.

boule, hooray!

my currant host friends kitchen (thank you miss vitucci) has an equisitly hot oven, perfect for bread baking. so, with my new bit of starter eager to feed and my relentless desire for carbs i went to work. after two and a half days this was my reward.

cookie experiment

so... i wanted to try something using praline candy as a filling in some sort of thumbprint style cookie. nothing real revolutionary, but just thought the maple flavor of the praline would go well with a shortbread.

i tried a bunch of different variations and thought this the most successful application, but the holes could have been cut a bit cleaner and i think next time i'd keep the shape a consistent circle and leave the oats out of the shortbread. maybe pecans instead of oats, i do love pecans.