Aren't these beautiful? They were in my room when I arrived. It's truly a vacation, a nice big room all to myself with my own bathroom. Nice shampoo and conditioner, facewash, all the good stuff:)
Camille and I have been watching The Great British Baking Show, and learning new words, like biscuit, sponge, fiddly, and stodgy. She was inspired to bake something, she chose chocolate orange cupcakes with a chocolate orange buttercream. There's orange zest in the batter, then the frosting is one of those Terry's chocolate oranges, melted and whipped with heavy cream and orange juice and cocoa powder, made into a buttercream. They didn't have cupcake wrappers, so we made our own with parchment paper.
A random pic from the past, Miss Camille with her big brother Aaron...:)
Our dinner: leftover steak, chopped up, thrown in the frying pan with some oil an onions, carefully so as not to set off the smoke alarms, served with chopped onions and cilantro on warm corn tortillas. (Can you tell that Miss Cam just got back from Mexico?)
We're enjoying this lovely kitchen. There's nothing like watching that baking show with the aroma of orange chocolate wafting through the air.
We went to Target yesterday, to get the baking ingredients and to visit their Starbucks. I got a decaf iced Americano, so I could sleep better. I still woke up at dawn, despite going to bed at midnight. blah. Not that I mind being up and seeing the gorgeous desert behind the house, and feeling the night chill still in the air as the pups bark and run and boss me to throw the ball again. They're all fed and watered and supplemented and played with, we're all being lazy now. Camille and I have big plans for today, involving sunshine and swimming, and perhaps baking some bread.
Ah well. You all have a really good day!
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