Making bread as taught by David de Gruyl

My friend David always has amazingly delicious homemade bread at his house. Leaven bread is something I've never had success at. There's something about the blooming of the yeast and rising that I can't get right. David assured me that I was capable. And he makes it looks so easy! I learned some good tips and tricks from him that I will now pass on to you lovely folks.

Vegetarian Stuffed Eggplant

I was browsing recipes looking to use a bag of Morningstar Farms sausage-style crumbles and found a bunch of good stuffed squash recipes. This is what I came up with after reading through them. 

Stop SOPA!

A lot of sites have gone dark today in protest of SOPA, "Stop Online Piracy Act" (H.R. 3261) and PIPA, "ProtectIP Act" (S.968) and I thought I'd say something about it. Like many people are saying, this isn't the way to go about curbing piracy. It's so far reaching that people like myself could be shut down as would many of my favorite websites like Google, Reddit and Craft. If we want to get technical, I share copyrighted recipes with you guys and I could be prosecuted for it. I'm not a lawyer yet people, so let's do what we can to avoid that. Here's what you can do to help stop it:

1. Google's site had lots of good information. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
2. Find out if your U.S. Representative or Senator supports SOPA or PIPA at  SOPAOpera.org.
3. Use the tools at AmericanCensorship.org, Engine Advocacy and POPVOX to tell Congress where you stand.

Have your voice heard! See that linking I did? Ya, that would be breaking the rules.

Layer cake!

Saturday I had an awesome time helping a friend make her first layer cake. It was my personal favorite-yellow cake with chocolate frosting. She made the cake layers from scratch and the were delicious! Now I want to make so many tall layer cakes. Who needs one?