Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

7/7/11

The birthday cake

For my birthday, we made this orange cake with chocolate cardamon glaze.*

It was very good, although Jason thought a bit too cardamon-y. The smell alone was worth making it for -- honestly one of the best things I've ever smelled, and I wish a photo could capture that.


But we aren't really crazy make-it-from-scratch cooks all the time. For dinner that night we ordered gyros and waffle fries from a place by our apartment that delivers.



* Okay, so really 95% of people say cardamom and I should, too, but it just doesn't sound right. And according to the etymology at thefreedictionary.com (of course a prestigious source by the sound of it), maybe I can get away with it: [Middle English cardamome, from Old French cardemome, from Latin cardammum, from Greek kardammon : kardamon, cress+ ammon, an Indian spice.]
Sorry. I am a dork.