Dessert Time!!

So as any of you who know me know that the annual birthday bash was held this past Saturday. One of the highlites of the evening was the vegan PBR saped cake that my onion Liz made. Now I'm all for a good cake but this was pretty monumental. Like seriously, how many of you have had a birthday cake that was not only tasty while being vegan but also shaped like a beer can?

I knew as soon as I saw this masterpiece that it was going to be super tasty and hey, I was right. I'm really starting to wonder why I'm the one in culinary school, I need to get my ass in gear and start coming up with stuff like this!  Now I'm sure you're wondering how a vegan cake can be called a cake at all but it is surprisingly good. Yes it does taste different than your run of the mill of of the box cake but since when does change have to be a bad thing?  I encourage you all to try a vegan cake/ cupcake/ other tasty dessert if you haven't yet. I'm fairly certain you wont be disappointed.

Baconation

So anybody who knows me knows that I am a big fan of bacon, soft or crispy it's hard for me to pass up a good plate of bacon. The love story of bacon and myself has been a long one involving everything from regular bacon, bacon flavoured vodka, bacon soap, bacon dental floss and just about everything else you can think of. When I came across the idea of weaved bacon I seemed to be in heaven. How can one not want to have a couple pounds of delicious bacon intertwined like tasty little fingers?

It's a pretty simple concept weaving bacon, you just weave the strips as you would weave anything else. Over, under, over, under until you have a baking sheet covered in tasty bacon. Sure there is shrinkage when you cook but at the end of the cook the weave is still about half the size of when it was started. I've used bacon weaves for giant bacon sandwiches, liners on plates, to eat as is and as a topper for the meatzurgler.

All this talk of bacon is givin me the itch. I think there is some bacon in my near future...