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Hand painted Yoda cookies for GPTMC. The cookie cutter is hand-made, so I have the only one! These were made to help promote the Franklin Institute's Star Wars exhibit.
Philadelphia, PA
February 2008
Order at www.whippedbakeshop.com
Photo: Jason Smith
Chocolate cupcakes filled with marshmallow fluff, topped with rich bittersweet ganache, graham cracker crumbs, toasted marshmallows and mini Hershey bars. YUM! A great way to celebrate the 4th!
Order at www.whippedbakeshop.com
Vanilla sugar cookie with almond royal icing. Crafted with a handmade custom cutter--a Whipped Bakeshop original!
Sonya's Garden
Barangay Buck Estate, Alfonso, Cavite, Philippines (near the vicinity of Tagaytay City, Philippines)
May 1-2, 2010
Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM + Canon Speedlite 430EXII
This is my second time to be here at this place. First were 3 or 4 years ago with my girlfriend, and now with my girlfriend-become-wife. We have spent the night here to celebrate our 1year wedding anniversary, and also to spend some time for each other after battling the month with our gruesome work schedule.
It's been years since I came to this place, and surprisingly, a lot has been changed. Renovated large dining halls for weddings and events, a bakeshop, a spa, newly built guesthouses, greenhouses and gardens. But one thing I noticed that hasn't changed, which is the food that they serves. Fresh from the gardens of Sonya is as variety of edible plants that are served for their customer’s organic appetite.
We came in at about past 6pm, which is a usually late for Sonya’s dinner which closes down after 7pm. For those who are planning to dine there for supper, you to be there early because sometimes the traffic along Tagaytay highway are horrendous. At least if you are early, you can still rest and freshen up for your dinner. Or you can visit the bakeshop and buy there bestselling Spanish bread and cheese Hopia. And I can say is... it is SUPERB. But of course, nothing beats the feast we had that night. We enjoyed the patented freshly harvested green salad of Sonya's. We both loved the dressing, and unfortunately a top secret recipe. Just as the sweet as the appetizer, the main course is as much as good. Having pasta with as much as two flavorful sauces to dig in to be somehow a confusing choice. But whatever you try, each one of them is uniquely tasty.
Breakfast is as delectably good as the dinner. Man you have to everything. We even had the original Sonya’s massage, and man did my back ached for a week. I didn’t say it wasn’t that good, but because probably I didn’t asked the masseuse to tone done the beating. And after the rub, you got to drink that dalandan tea they serve. It washes the pain in you toes for second. YEAOWCH!
Well, everything went fine in our come back to Sonya’s. It was great. We love the place. It was a paradise. Good for tired souls who want to escape the harsh realities of the busy city. Refreshing. We love the food. The ambiance. Everything. Everything that you need to do nothin’.
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Time was when rumors of a secret garden tucked in the gentle rolling hills of Tagaytay inevitably sneaked into conversations of Manila’s inner circle on what is new and exotic. Stories were told in awe and delight about a flower garden planted in “organized chaos” yet soothingly pleasing to the eye, as if choreographed with artistic perfection. And then there is the simple yet incredibly filling country cuisine with fresh and organically grown ingredients from the garden, served in fine tableware that complements the idyllic setting. Then there is Sonya herself with her memories of growing up in her grandmother’s country garden in the Philippines, her life as an expat in Europe and the US, and her dreams of carving out a place in the country where she can live her philosophy on “the art of doing nothing”.
Read more HERE
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My mom came for a visit last month, no visit of hers is complete without some serious sight seeing, and pastries. So many pastries. Hope you're all having a nice Sunday!
Bright flower prints adorn these pretty cookies. Reminiscent of pretty vintage fabric or a lush blooming garden, these cookies are sure to delight. Scalloped vanilla sugar cookie rounds with almond royal icing.
Chocolate fudge cake iced with pink-hued Italian meringue bttercream, drizzled with bittersweet ganache and sprinkled with non pareils. YUM!
These were the cupcakes that the Oprah Winfrey Show called and ordered as holiday gifts! Flavors included pumpkin-caramel, triple chocolate, red velvet, lemon buttermilk filled with lemon curd, and vanilla-buttermilk cupcakes!
Made with the Care Circle of do.Good Stitches for January
Pattern is Charming Stars from Moda Bakeshop
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Buttercream-iced cake adorned with golden sugar pearls and intricate piping in a circle motif. A golden monogram finishes the top of the cake! Jenn and Casey did a knockout job with the piping on this one, and I am beyond happy with their work. And of course, Rebecca baked the deliciousness inside (lemon-buttermilk cake layered with fresh lemon curd and lemon meringue buttercream + fresh raspberries) and whipped up the delicious Italian meringue buttercream for the outside. I wish I had had this at my own wedding!
A mural by Delphinoto depicting Pope Francis adorns the outside.
Back from a few great days in NY/NJ. Lots of photos! I'll be catching up with everyone over the next couple of days.
Taken with my Fujifilm X-T30 II camera and a XF18-55mm lens.
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Small (6" and 4" tiers) fondant-covered cake with custom piped name plaque, sugar flowers and aqua band. Custom sugar butterfly brooch to match client's sample. Casey put this cake together, details, flowers, and butterfly by Zoë
I've finally finished my Random Reflections quilt top. Pattern by Moda Bakeshop. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I think it's going to be the perfect size for our bed. I've booked it in with Quilts on Bastings for long arm quilting.
All pieced and the border is on. Just waiting for my backing fabric. Once again, this was made using a "recipe" from the Moda Bakeshop. It's called Boho Vintage Patchwork Star.
Looking through the window of the Moon Bakeshop in Huntsville, Alabama. The restaurant was closed for the Memorial Day Holiday.
Woops! The Mall at Short Hills
Bakeshop
1200 Morris Turnpike
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Phone: 973-376-0017
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This was taken on Prince, between Elizabeth & Bowery, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Giant gingerbread, chocolate shortbread, and vanilla sugar cookies all dressed up for Valentine's Day. These big hearts were made as giveaways for today's audience on NBC 10's "The 10" show.
This was taken on Mott Street, between Prince & Spring, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
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Sage green-tinted Italian meringue buttercream covers this autumnal wedding cake. Lacy-textured leaves, fondant vines and sprigs and pretty pearly berries adorn the front sides of the cake.
Handmade chocolate scribbles atop decadent chocolate cupcakes with tinted vanilla buttercream.
Order at www.whippedbakeshop.com
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12" sushi cake. 5" high red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream topped with handmade cake maki ( red velvet w/ buttercream and coconut "rice"). Flowers, chopsticks, ginger, etc., all handmade with sugar paste.
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Ivory fondant covers the tiers of this elegant cherry blossom cake. An elegant pattern of blossoms bloom around the cake, and the top has a sculpted blooming branch.
Made from this tutorial on Moda's Bakeshop-
www.modabakeshop.com/2011/04/charming-window-pillows.html...
I used my current favorite fabric collection- Prince Charming by the fabulous Tula Pink.