Monday Morsel: Amy Sedaris

"When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies."

Amy Sedaris

Monday Morsel: Adventures First

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass 

 

 

Monday Morsel: Travel Quote

This photo taken by my Bakery Traveling Husband while in Greece.

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

- St. Augustine

Monday Morsel: Refreshing No-Bake

You know, over the summer, pretty much wherever you dwell, it's relatively hot.  If you have a sweet tooth, as I do, any treat that has "no-bake" in its title is on your radar.  Popsugar gets me sometimes. Take a glance through their suggestions, and I'm guessing you will be feeling the same way...they get you, don't they? It's not a bad way to be gotten.

Monday Morsel: Oh Canada

 

Where have I been that I have NEVER heard of these bars before today??????

I must be living under a hot, boiling hot, desert rock.  (No not "dessert" rock as I would prefer to have it.)

Yes, that's it.  I mean, it really might as well be.

For a cool, refreshing treat, Canada seemed like a place to investigate for a Monday Morsel.  And look what I found:

 

 

Nanaimo Bars!

Delish recipe right here.

History of these charmers right here 

(courtesy of City of Nanaimo):  

This creamy, chocolatey treat's origin is elusive, shrouded in mystery, and claimed by many as their own. Of course, we know that Nanaimo Bars originated in Nanaimo, or they would be called New York Bars, or New Brunswick Bars.

 

Monday Morsel: 3 Good Eggs

 

We are down to the final THREE. 

 

Francine, Darlene, and Brian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only time will tell...they are all winners, really.  

Did you watch last week's episode in which they had to bake French pastries?  

Monday Morsel: American Baking Gets Hot!

I am really at a toss-up because I actually like all of the finalists remaining on The American Baking Competition.  But these two are my faves as of this moment:

 

Francine:

 

  (Learn more about Francine here.)

 

Darlene:

(Learn more about Darlene here.)

If you are not watching this show, fellow Bakery Travelers, you are missing out on a good summer treat.  These women know how to bake and do so from their heart and southern savvy.  I mean, they are good.

Happy Monday!!!

Monday Morsel: Coca-Cola Cake

How retro is this?  Coca-cola cake.
There is something so very Mad Men about this.
And this recipe is va-va-voom good. 

Monday Morsel: Skillet Upside Down Cake

You know the Drapers enjoyed this Skillet Pineapple Upside Down Cake.

My Mad Men vintage dessert love continues.

Monday Morsel: Patriotic Dessert Squares

Perfect and perfectly easy, right? Check it out here.

If not for Memorial Day today, save this recipe for July 4th.

Monday Morsel Mad Men Desserts Continue

 

I'm just mad for Mad Men desserts, dahling. 

 

Here's a fun blogger who has pursued this Mad Men Desserts idea very well with the likes of cookies in honor of Peggy and Joan and an orange sherbet in honor of Megan Draper.  

 

Check it all out here.

 

 

Monday Morsel: Pioneer Woman

I just like Ree Drummond. 

This recipe is adorable. More May flowers.  

Happy Monday!

Monday Morsel: Irish Dairy Cake

This recipe for Irish Dairy Cake is authentic Irish all the way.

Different photos here of the same cake.

Have I told you I adore cake?  

I think it is one of the most amazing inventions ever.

Monday Morsel: e.e. cummings

 

 

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

By E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

                                                      i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart 

 

 i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

 

 

 

Monday Morsel

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

 – Robert Louis Stevenson

Monday Morsel

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I'm keeping with an adventure theme for my Monday Morsels this month.

 

Alice in Wonderland - isn't she the epitome of an adventurous spirit? I so love that she's tiny among the plate in the background in the photo above. Somehow, that seems very fitting for how it feels to tackle my bakery travels on occasion. I realize how big this world is, and then I try a new dish or two, and before I know it, the world seems a lot more...well...small in a very sweet, sweet way.

 

 

Monday Morsel

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle 

 

I call this photo the "Congress Cake" because I took it here. The cake may not seem like much to many, but I took the photo as I was just starting this blog, actually. While I am fully aware that my blogging skills still rest in the novice spectrum, my fellow bakery travelers, it remains one fine, worthwhile adventure. Besides, how delicious does this cake look?

 

Exactly my point.

Monday Morsel: Vanellope Von Schweetz

Love her.

 

Monday Morsel: Not My Gumdrop Buttons!

Q. How did gingerbread become so gender-specific? 

A. Gingerly of course.

Ha.

"Of course, when gingerbread cookies are shaped like everything from popular politicians to baby animals, polite consumption can be tricky. Is it barbaric to bite off the head first? Or worse to start by amputating an extremity? If you nibble on decorations first, does the plaintive voice of that character from Shrek echo in your imagination ('Not my gumdrop buttons!')?"

~ Amanda Benson at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2008/12/a-brief-history-of-gingerbread/ 

 

Monday Morsel: Saveur's Smart Cookies

If you don't know about Saveur, then you'd probably like to.  This link, from Saveur, is perfect for this time of year: http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Smart-Cookies-International-Holiday-Cookies!  I really like Saveur.  I like pretending I can pronounce it properly.  I like putting Saveur in italics.  The whole thing just makes me feel far more sophisticated than I really am.

 

Tomorrow is National Cookie Day. "Well, of course it is," I thought when I discovered that. Did you know English word "cookie" is derived from the Dutch word "koekje?" Now you do. 

 

(I learned about that here: http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-cookie-day.)