… The scariest wagers are the ones you make on yourself and on your own future success. It’s so much easier to just take what you’ve got and make the best of it, but what it came down to for us was this: The best of it had sunk us deep into a pit of stagnant muck and we had to risk something crazy to dig ourselves out. …

This dish was served on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 9:18 pm and is filed under food blogging events, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Submitted for your approval: The tale of a chef and his doppelganger, separated by a continent, each devoted to his own unique culinary path, yet driven together, inexplicably, time and again, by a mysterious force. Some might call it fate, some might dismiss it as the natural result of expert training and the synchronicities of our modern age. …

This dish was served on Monday, October 24th, 2005 at 11:59 am and is filed under food blogging events, imbb, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… In my own personal actor’s nightmare, it goes more like this:

Thomas’ mother enters: “I’ve brought you a custard,” she says and stumbles slightly causing the custard to fly up into the air and land, face down on the stage in front of the gathered cast. …

This dish was served on Friday, September 16th, 2005 at 10:38 pm and is filed under food blogging events, recipes, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… So, here I am, flying solo. Granted, Chopper came home for a brief respite between lunch and dinner shifts and spun me some sugar, but the rest of it is mine, all mine, baby.

And, as usual, I got a little carried away. …

This dish was served on Friday, August 12th, 2005 at 11:35 pm and is filed under food blogging events, island local, recipes, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… Our choice for fruit: blueberries. I had this brilliantly silly notion that we’d make the whole thing blue. Blue-tinted meringue, blueberries… (Okay, they’re purple, but hey, work with me here.) The idea: A cloud of blue meringue, and on top of the berries, another cloud, this one silver and puffy and all of spun sugar. …

This dish was served on Thursday, June 16th, 2005 at 10:48 pm and is filed under food blogging events, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… But since we are, as we said, weird, we believe that instead of ignoring food blogging events when we’re pressed for time, we should embrace them. Both at once. With zeal.

And with (yes, you’ve guessed it by now) weirdness.

And so, with a cupful of grapefruit juice and a sea of aspic (ocean blue, of course), we christen the Sweet Fleet …

This dish was served on Thursday, May 19th, 2005 at 10:58 pm and is filed under culinary insanity, food blogging events, imbb, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Molasses. Color me strange, but I really like the stuff. Maybe it’s those fond memories of home baked gingerbread cookies at Christmas time and me sneaking a spoonful straight from the bottle, or maybe it’s just the label with that grand old rabbit …

This dish was served on Friday, April 22nd, 2005 at 10:02 pm and is filed under food blogging events, recipes, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.