It’s recipe time! I’ve got a super simple idea for your next veggie side: curried butternut squash kabobs. Four ingredients, super simple, and absolutely yummy—I swear you’ll love it. And you can even skip the kabob threading part, and just eat the roasted butternut squash with a plain old fork and knife—after all, it’s the curry butter that makes this so special. That’s right. I said curry butter.
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I received possibly the sweetest email of all time this weekend.
Jackie, an 11 year old, is making a four-layer red velvet cake for her mother’s birthday, and reached out to see if I could provide her with a video for how to make cream cheese frosting, because “as you know,” she writes “cream cheese frosting it the ultimate topping for red velvet cake.” She goes on to request that it be a true frosting and not an icing: “I saw the video where you explained the difference between frosting and icing and I would like to know the recipe for frosting.”
How cute is that? I was not only honored to be asked, but impressed—11 years old and making a four-layer cake! With homemade frosting! Jackie, I tip my whisk to you in admiration.
Here is the video I sent along to her; although this is a recipe for reduced-fat cream cheese frosting, traditional cream cheese can be used in lieu of a low-fat version (as called for in the recipe), providing you with a perfect, yummy cream cheese frosting.
Happy Baking, Jackie!
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This week’s wish list is going to take an actual list form, as there is just too much goodness to fit in a pretty little box. The items and ideas that have me obsessed this week run the gamut from a Lime & Blackberry Italian Meringue Pie (I know, right?) to dream-level sparkly shoes. The common thread? They’re all utterly, utterly delicious.
1. Bon Appétit‘s Lime & Blackberry Italian Meringue Pie: Bon Appétit‘s August cover stopped me in my tracks. Literally. I was pushing my cart through Whole Foods when I spotted this frothy, gorgeous pie, and started something of a traffic jam. Forgive me, fellow Manhattan Beach Whole Foods patrons; I was transfixed.
The recipe can be found here. Please, I beg of you: go forth, bake, and then immediately send me a piece. Or better yet, I’ll come to you.
2. Ryan Gosling’s Wardrobe, Crazy, Stupid, Love: Yes, yes, I know: initially the world was atwitter about Ryan Gosling’s shirt coming off in this summer comedy, as rightly summed up by Emma Stone’s declaration: ‘Seriously? It’s like you’re photoshopped!’. But I swear: the costume design was so perfect, you’ll want his clothes to stay on, on, on. He is by far the best-dressed male character I’ve ever seen; costume designer Dayna Pink created MAJOR modern dreamboat looks, nailing every single scene. She chats about how she did it in this interview with GQ. Do you think we can start a petition to have her dress the men of the world? Like, all of them? Ah, well…a girl can dream.
3. Kate Moss’ Wedding Photos: Oh, my. This fairytale event was chock-full of playful touches, old world glamour, and a bit of rock ‘n’ roll, all teased into a beautifully photographed frenzy. I particularly love the couple’s recreation of the famed Mick and Bianca Jagger backseat wedding portrait. But no more than I love the sweet and wistful photo that follows it. See them all in Vogue‘s slideshow, here.
4. Christian Louboutin’s Croc-Sequined Platform Pumps: Yes, I realize that these cost more than a studio apartment in LA (or not, come to think of it), but aren’t they just gob-stoppingly gorgeous? In order to take possession of them, I really would have to be the woman who lived in her shoes. But what a pretty domicile it’d be.
Images via Bon Appétit, GQ, Vogue, and Bergdorf Goodman.
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