I was happy to oblige and prepare a red velvet cake – everyone seemed in awe of my nonchalant acceptance of the task. I googled it and found this recipe from food network.

Upon rounding up the ingredients, I discovered I would need to buy 4 (FOUR) packages of food coloring, just to get the amount of liquid red food coloring I’d need. (and it probably wouldn’t be that red)

Crazy enough, I was at an Indian market the day before, just perusing and noticed they had dry food coloring.

I high tailed it back over to the market and picked up a jar of the red food coloring and returned home to proceed.

With just a quarter of a teaspoon, my batter was already looking good:

Red Velvet Batter

and it turned out pretty good at the pot-luck, at least no one complained..

Although, Andy commented that it wasn’t the best he’s had… perhaps I need a more intimidating recipe?

Anyways, I’ve been surfing today and I found a couple of cool sites that I thought I’d share:

http://www.bookcrossing.com
From the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: BookCrossing – n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
I fell in love with the concept and will be setting some of my books free this week. I wondered what was to become of my growing collection of short reads. Now someone else can read some Augusten Burroughs.

http://www.geocaching.com
Basically a directory of ‘caches’ throughout the world listed by exact Lat/Long coordinates. Combine a GPS receiver and you’ve got a 21st century treasure hunt.

http://www.wufoo.com
Anyone that’s ever done form editing knows it’s a pain… especially if you have to make small changes, copy a form, etc. Wufoo makes it simple, period. I used it to create my Recipe Submission Form (more on that later).