This is a crepe cake we made for a dinner at a friends house. It took three nights to make, and three rounds of dishes. There are caramelized hazelnuts (or filberts, if you wish) on top and a hazelnut custard in between each crepe.
We got a new paddle for the KitchenAid. It's awesome.
Rhubarb season is here. We've eaten a rhubarb coffee cake (of some sort) each week for the past three (or four?) weeks now. We had one in a glass baking dish that was sitting on the stove. We accidentally turned on the wrong burner so I moved it over to a different burner. A second or two later there was a loud pop and there was glass all over the kitchen. Of course, some shards were hot so the melted into our linoleum a little bit. So, when those dishes say not safe for stovetop use, they really mean it. Next week we'll have more counter space so this shouldn't be a repeat issue...
Steak. We made teriyaki sauce and marinated the steak in it for a few hours.
We got some potatoes from the CSA and cooked them with some bok choy (also from the CSA).
On Saturday a friend and I hiked up to a B-18 crash site in the White Mountains. This was one of the engines.
This is a connecting rod. The plane crashed in January, 1942.
This is the head of a piston.
While driving back we stopped by to check out some interesting cars. This is a 1947 Crosley, which was made in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1939-1952. It's a 4 cylinder, three speed (the shift knob looked like a hand-turned piece of maple) and was available through dealers and Macy's department stores.
This is a three wheeled (one in front) 1974 Reliant Robin. It's 45 hp and 60+ mpg. They were produced in England and not available in the US due to safety regulations (yet somehow this one was registered in NH?). The body is fiberglass (a la Corvette) and it claims to have a low center of gravity and is fun to drive. It has 13" tires.
