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Angry Birds Cake!

I've been busy out tasting, more like simply eating, various foods and frostings and haven't quite updated you all on my adventures. This is what I've been up to: Since presentation is half the part (right?), so I'm working on improving that department! I have been in the artsy-fartsy mode. A few cupcakes, two cakes, lots of time!, and lots of frosting-covered fingers later, tada!, an Angry Birds designed raspberry-filled vanilla cake with buttercream icing! I guess all that 384-well plate pipetting in the science lab paid off!
Science note: Pipetting is a method to measure and transfer a volume of liquid.  Molecular biology techniques require pipetting micro(small)volumes of 0.1-1000uL which is equivalent to 1/1,000,000 of a liter or less into 384 holes of a 128 x 88mm plate.  In layman terms, lots of pipetting tiny amounts into tiny little holes!

Well, the cake was such a hit-in terms of looks-that no one wanted to cut it. :( I joked that I should make an ugly cake so everyone wouldn't mind destroying the masterpiece to dive in and devour the dish! Anyway, we got creative and so far just ate wedges around the bird, keeping the center for later maybe?  Angry Birds is quite popular and addicting to some people!

Savoring the bird....

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The Basics...

Happy Birthday!

Although the heart of my blog may be to share the the Ah-ha!-you-gotta-try-this finds, my own petridish aka platter of good eats or Erleynmeyer flask aka glass of tasty drinks,  discoveries of great protocols aka recipes, and my own experiments with them, you may find other topics of interest to me (It is MY blog of rants and ramblings, you know--neener neener neener!)

Firstly, in the Food Lab department and since we do need to eat in order to live (while some live to eat), I believe that we should not only eat well but also healthily.  Thus, I take aim in searching for healthy, wholesome dishes so I will do my best to note it (ie, Gluten-free, Organic, etc).  As they say, "You are what you eat!"  Do NOT expect workout routines or avoidance of certain ingredients due to allergies or for strict dieticians because I EAT EVERYTHING, well almost ;-D, and I do not have adipose enlargement in my stomach, abdomen, hips, gluteus or any other body part you can name.  Wish you have my genes, don't ya?

As for the Other Interesting topics department, I am a Noobie to the blogging and Twitter world, so I also want to maintain the right understanding and proper uses of these critical functions in social media.  (HTML design for blogs is for the fancy pants, and not only am I not there yet, so far it doesn't seem like a necessity.) If you are a Social Media guru yourself, please bear with me and don't hesitate to share your thoughts.  Otherwise, the rest of us can attempt to figure out this "social media" thing, together :)

So, this leads to the first social media lesson for me:
Nathan Bransford gave me the lowdown on how to use the Twitter "@Reply" and he's got some publishing essentials where I may take away with a thing or two for my blog writing.  Since I am also an avid reader, thanks to e-books and my let's-read-a-book-so-we-can-get-together-to-eat-and-watch-the-movie book club (we had a shorten version of the name somewhere) with 3 of my girlfriends, I find interest in some of Nathan's posts about e-books.

And for you:

<3 Thyself Chocolat Truffles (homemade): who doesn't like chocolate?  Go love yourself and love some chocolate because these are GF (Gluten-Free) AND can be high in anti-oxidiants, you know, flavenoids and polyphenols!  Hayy-ya!  Take that, free radicals!

Organic and sustainable chocolate can be found at NEWTREE Chocolate & Café.  They have a cafe located in San Francisco.  And with this Bloomspot deal you can get $12 for $24 of lunch and chocolate at the cafe and $20 for $40 of gourmet chocolate!

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

First post ever and what better way than to celebrate with a gluten-filled birthday cake?? Luckily, the birth of this blog coincides with celebrating not just the 3rd birth year for my niece, SL, but also her baby brother's one month! I must add that it was also the very first birthday of my other niece, EV, 2 days ago! Lots of births and celebrations!

Well, don't birthday cakes always make you happy? They do for many people as there's even a b-day cake flavored ice cream!

Here, my nieces were having at it with the cake frosting, after their favorite auntie, yours truly, showed them how good frosting is when it's on your face! SL decided licking it from her nose was better than eating cake-half strawberry & half pineapple filling- from her plate. Her cousin, LL then decided that the bday girl can't have her cake and eat it alone, so she joined in. Within a few minutes, the girls had frosting on their faces, fingers, hands, and mouths, of course! In the end, it was a birthday party that was way too much fun! Happy thirdday, SL!

Hope you'll wish the Chef's Lab a happy birthday too!

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