Well, folks, Random Factoid #365 is my 666th post. How’s that for a bad omen?
But I’m not one to be superstitious. I am one to celebrate … umm, HOLY &*$%#!!! How did I get here? I can thank Julie Powell – and Julia Child as well. So today, I decided to thank the latter for a change.
You’ll hear more about it later, but for my anniversary, I decided to make Reine de Saba, a chocolate-almond cake from the massive cooking anthology that Child authored, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I did it mostly on my own, and I dug in. It was quite tasty.
Julia suggested decorating the cake with almonds. Check out my design … and careful not to drool on your keyboard.
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Seeing that my birthday is the sixth of June (I had the inevitable 06/06/06 birthday: devil child) I don’t think it’s a bad open.
(I think almonds are disgusting :P)
I will second that almonds are disgusting.
Well the cake was good, so there. It had a very unique taste – the icing was very sweet between the chocolate and the rum.