Category: food
01/25/14 11:10 - ID#58609
Chocolate Truffle Cake
1 bag semisweet chocolate chips
7 squares unsweetened 100% cacao
3 eggs, 3 whites
2 sticks butter
3/4 cup sugar
We followed these directions minus the water bath and it worked out fine. We served it with a seedless raspberry sauce and Sweet Jenny's sweet cream ice cream.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.
In a small saucepan over medium heat combine the water, salt and sugar. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside.
Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
Cut the butter into pieces and beat the butter into the chocolate, 1 piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready, put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
Bake cake in the water bath at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.
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Category: birthdays
01/23/14 09:51 - ID#58602
Happy birthday Paul!
I love you and hope that your birthday was amazing, and your party this weekend is even better. Here's to many more years!
I'll leave the write up about the bougie bday to you.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: health
01/21/14 10:30 - ID#58598
More blood pressure
Some of it is mentally stressing about it, but I can't figure out what else would be contributing to it. I exercise, eat alright, am not too stressed and am generally pretty healthy.
Google tells me poor sleep quality (and I assume length) leads to persistent hypertension. If anything I think that may be it. I usually average 6 hours or less except weekends.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/22/14 12:29
Category: work
01/21/14 08:59 - ID#58593
We'll be counting cars
Definitely not as nice as it was in the summer but at least I have a data plan now, lol.
The cops just came up to me because I guess I look shady sitting in a parking lot.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/21/14 09:02
Category: music
01/21/14 08:48 - ID#58592
Erica's open mic at Nietzsche's
Yesterday (e:czarkasm) undid her belt at Nietzsche's and sang at the open mic night. I'm not super muscial but I definitely thought she was one of the best (throat lady notwithstanding). She did four songs, I recorded her cover of Titanium.
Hopefully you're all regular now, Erica.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: movies
01/21/14 08:16 - ID#58591
Wolf of Wall Street
The movie itself was well made. Leo was an amazing actor and the plot itself was ridic. I don't think the movie ended well because it glamorized them a bunch, but I guess they got off pretty easy in real life too, right? They even freaking put Jordan Belfort in the movie. It's so messed up that you can fraud and cheat, and then sell the story and have a movie made about it. They even advertise his motivational speaking company at the end, as if he is somehow redeemed.
Afterwards and the whole next day, I felt so repulsed by the movie. Not just by how disgusting and corrupt the characters in the movie were, but how much I worry about money. Obviously our motivations are different (doing coke in a Ferrari vs paying student loans) but I still feel so disgusted by any sort of greed. I have everything I could ever want or need, so money should be the last thing on my mind. It feels so selfish and I hate our cultural obsession with it.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/21/14 11:33
Category: dancing
01/21/14 07:57 - ID#58590
Lindsay and Carrie's birthday
After we headed out to Toro for dancing since it was across the street. I had fun dancing, but the music was only okay and I definitely agree with (e:paul) about the crowd being way too bro/Long Island. I stepped on a guy's shoe by accident and he wanted to fight. Never going there again. Some of my friends started getting sloppy so we finished the night there. Paul got us Casa pizza which seemed to be so amazing at the time.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/21/14 08:50
Category: dancing
01/19/14 06:35 - ID#58587
Boom at the Block Club
Friday night, Emily and I headed out for the Blcok Club launch party. We met up with Mickey, and some of Emilys coworkers there. Eventually (e:terry), (e:xandra), Tanya and (e:Robert) came too.
Dancing was super fun. I ran into a couple of people from high school and caught up with tons of other people too. Free beer from Community Beer Works was real good.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food
01/18/14 07:42 - ID#58584
Paul the butcher
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/18/14 07:42
Category: food
01/16/14 07:33 - ID#58580
Dinner with Emily
She wanted to get ice cream so we went to Wegmans. I actually shopped there, and ended up paying only a few more dollars than I would have at Trader Joe's. So bougie, (e:paul) and (e:terry) should be proud. They started doing construction in the freezer section, it made the whole store smell like mildew, so sick.
Tina Fey has her own ice cream
Valentine's candy is out... has to be my second favorite candy related holiday after Easter.
Even Basra gets organic at Wegman's.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/17/14 09:46
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