Life Itself is the Proper Binge

- Julia Child

I'm going to watch Julie and Julia Child today! So in that honor I made a cup pie! I got it from the movie Waitress. And in that movie there's this amazing sounding pie where it's bitter, BITTER chocolate melted in hot, MOLTEN caramel. The waitress in the film creates pies based on the life and what she's feeling at the moment. And I think the bitterness of the chocolate is really good representation when you're just utterly depressed but the caramel gives you some hope because after the chocolate you have a pleasant sweetness that's just wonderful~

So follow over to see what happens when this:



and this:



Comes together with lots of pictures and instructions:
http://joyciel.livejournal.com/99318.html

I Like Bananas, Bananas are Good

Ah! Look at that, look at that. Best banana muffins ever and courtesy of Alton Brown. His recipes are seriously, THE BEST! The muffins had a lot of banana flavor, they were moist, and soft, and ADDICTING.

But of course, you can't get great results without great effort and this had a whole lot of effort!

I took pictures of the step to step process here: http://joyciel.livejournal.com/83504.htm

And remember:

Bananas: Great for fighting EVIL!!