Monday, July 5, 2010

Popovers with Raspberry butter and the Beach

Ever had one of those days when you wake up and you’re sitting down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee and then you get this great idea from heaven itself to bake something. But half way through your baking process you realize that there isn’t actually time to finish, so you rush around only to realize that you can't actually do anything except turn the oven up and hope that it will finish in time! Until finally you can’t wait any longer and you just pull out whatever is in the oven and throw it a bag then run out! – Well in case you hadn’t figured out from the immense details of the last couple lines this is the exact scenario that happened to me this morning while I was trying to make popovers and raspberry butter!
After the excitements of my morning we went to spend the day with Amory and Kate at the beach. We went snorkeling around then went and had a wonderful lunch while looking out at the sea!

 Popovers + Raspberry Butter!
I got the recipe from cupcakes and cashmere and Orangette - I had to change the strawberry butter to Raspberry (because of course strawberries are out of season!!) and add powder sugar for some sweetness!




Sunday, July 4, 2010

Travel books and Smoothies and long hot days!

Yesterday spent the majority of the day finalizing plans for our trip! We could finally sit back with a smoothie in hand and actually read about the places that we'll be visiting and figure out what we want to see and do there ... hence the many Rick Steve and other travel books lying around in the pictures below! There are so many things to see my brain is spinning with all the sites to see and things to remember! thank god for rick steves!!!