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RamanduDaughter wrote:I'm engaged to be married in one year (next March) and am planning my wedding. Neither of us are well off and neither are our families, so we are cutting costs any way we can without compromising the quality of the wedding. One of the ways we're reducing costs (plus giving me the chance to do something I've always dreamed of doing!) is that I will be designing my own wedding cake.

I envision a design with 4 layers, with garlands of frosting roses and petals swathing the top and side in a graceful, natural pattern, dropping to the base. I don't want to use all white, but I don't want intense colors, so I plan to use a pale pink and pale green for the flowers and white for everything else, including possibly white plastic pearls in a swirl along the edge. The base cake will have a gauzy bow in a silky, pale pink.

The only similar cake I've made was the three layer cake I made for my parents' 25th anniversary a few years ago, featured in the photo below. It was a hot evening, and the cake collapsed slightly, into the rather triangular shape you see. This time around I'll have a base to work with the will keep the weight of each layer from impacting the others.

Pattertwigs wrote:For some reason this quote made me think of this thread (and one poster to it in particular. )
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw

Congratulations, RamanduDaughter! What a pretty cake! Great job on the roses. I wish I could make roses. That sounds lovely.

Pattertwigs Pal wrote:SnowAngel, what kind of a cookie press do you have? We can't seem to find a good one. The disk that pushes the dough down keeps breaking off. I think we have other problems too but I'm not sure.

We have the Wilton Cookie Pro™ Ultra Cookie Press, but it's been discontinued. It's the only one we've had, so I don't know what to recommend. Sorry, wish I could help you more.

Shadowlander wrote:

Snow Angel wrote:And last week, I made Shadowlander's "Slumguillon" recipe. It was great. Everyone loved it with the exception of Scarlet (she doesn't eat any kind of sausage, except for my homemade beef sausage ).

Scarlet didn't like it?! Ah well, can't win em' all. I'm glad you liked it! I hadn't thought to add ground mustard, but then again I'm culinarily (is that a word?) challenged...would that make it taste kinda...mustardy? Like French's yellow?

Scarlet's kind of weird sometimes. No, it adds a kind of spicy favor. If it had a mustard favor like French's yellow, then I would be the one of the last people to use it.

I recently made Raspberry-Blueberry Sorbet. It was delicious. We have a juicer/homogenizer so it's really easy to make. I just ran frozen berries through the juicer. I made a pie crust, rolled it out, and broke it into pieces(it's a fast alternative to shortbread). I served the sorbet at my younger siblings' tea party in a bowl with a piece of pie crust and sprinkle of sugar. It just need some whipped cream.

Have a church dinner next week (again) and it's my turn to make dessert to take. And I'm trying to decide which kind of cupcakes to make - I think I'm going to make green buttercream frosting (a nod to St. Patrick). I was thinking about strawberry-flavored, but think that should have pink frosting. Maybe I should just make vanilla cupcakes and color them green. What I really should make is Irish cream, but I do not have a whiskey-flavored extract.

SnowAngel

SnowAngel wrote:We have the Wilton Cookie Pro™ Ultra Cookie Press, but it's been discontinued. It's the only one we've had, so I don't know what to recommend. Sorry, wish I could help you more.

Don't worry about. I think we might actually have the same one. My mom says we have one that works. I must have given up on our cookie presses too soon. We are always looking for one with all metal parts.

Djaq wrote:I think that flambeau and I are going to make Hamburger Helper for supper

GtG wrote:^I don't like Hamburger Helper

Djaq wrote:What kind of Hamburger Helper are you thinking of? Anyway, I'm sorry to hear you don't like it.

Djaq wrote:How does everyone else make Hamburger Helper?
I'm just curious because I don't really have a recipe for it and I know there are boxed versions you can get. The Hamburger Helper that I make is from scratch.

Djaq wrote:What is everyone having for supper? (do I sound nosy? Well, this is a cooking thread, so it fits, right? )

Ali wrote:I was thinking of the boxed kind. But I don't like the made-from-scratch kind either. It's like goulash right? With cooked tomatoes and hamburger meat and such? *shudders* I HATE cooked tomatoes

Ali wrote:Oh I need to make granola too. My mom's been bugging me about it for days

Pattertwigs Pal wrote:When I think of Hamburger Helper, I think of the boxed kind so that is what I made last night. I try to keep down the number of times I make things out of a box. I prefer making things from scratch when I have the time. I do make other recipes with hamburger that I don't use a box for. When we buy hamburger, we cook it all up at once and freeze it for use in recipes. (We make it into 12 oz packages and use that instead of a pound in recipes). That way we don't have to worry about the hamburger going bad before we use it and we can just grab a bag when we need it.

Pattertwigs Pal wrote:I don't think you sound nosy. I'm trying a new recipe for Pasta Primavera tonight.

Shadowlander wrote:Tonight the wife and I are eating chicken salad sammiches with a side of salt and vinegar potato chips.

Stargazer wrote:With the return of spring comes the return of one of my favorite modes of preparing food - cooking over an open wood fire. Yum! It's hard to beat that kind of flavor.

Djaq wrote:Ooh, I love chicken salad sammiches (or sandwiches )! Were they good (if I even need to ask)?

Djaq wrote:The kind I make is not like that at all! (I don't like tomatoes ) Mine is very plain. Ground beef, cheese sauce, corn, and pasta noodles (usually bow ties) is all that I use. Sound better?

Haha! I had never made it before and my family hasn't had it recently, but I found a recipe and really wanted to try it.