Last night, four of us were asked to construct a short story in which a key, a rabbit, and a bridge all played major roles. These were ours:

1. I was walking across a bridge with a rabbit, when I realised that I left my key at home.

2. I walked across the bridge with the rabbit, then the rabbit swallowed my key.

3. I opened the door with my key to let in the rabbit that I found while crossing the bridge.

4. I stabbed the rabbit with my key, then flung it off the bridge.

Guess which story was mine, and which was bunny’s, and tell me what yours is! I will post the significance here tomorrow.

Edit: You people are awful. Bunny and I both did NOT say #4!!

I made Pecan Cupcakes today, and intended to take pictures and post a mini recipe thingamajiggy complete with photographs documenting some of the steps, but ended up getting very angry with the packet of sugar (for some reason there were a whole bunch of large, wet clumps inside that I then had to sieve out and ended up spilling EVERYWHERE), so right now I’ve got a picture of butter - cut into cubes - and about 27 pecan cupcakes sitting on a wire rack in my kitchen. I will think about taking a picture of the cupcakes later on. (Edit: Picture of cupcake duly taken and you can now see it at the start of the post. Other pictures mentioned have been linked up.) They’re rather yummy, though some kind of umm blossomed a little too much. And I must make a mental note that all the cupcake recipes I try from this book are going to give me twice the estimated yield.

Sidenote: For some reason, one (quite lucky - if I may say so myself) friend of mine upon whom I regularly bestow the fruits of my oven says we can’t keep giving [her] cupcakes!! I don’t really understand that, since I did make about 31 when I intended to make 15, and of those 2 have been consumed, 2 were dished out to Steph (whom I’m going to miss terribly), and I think 12 will surreptitiously arrive in the bunny’s office and attempt to remain uneaten till the end of the day. (They usually fail and disappear by 10am.) If my math hasn’t failed me, this leaves us with 15. Strange friend, if you take 4, and pass 2 onto ITSJUSTAMICE cafe, I will still have 9 left to tide me through the week. And possibly dish out to some other friends.

Anyhoo, I’m heading back to Shermay’s to get a few more bottles of their orange and lemon and almond and coffee extract - oh! And that reminds me: I also did take a picture of the vanilla bean paste I bought yesterday, only it doesn’t really apply to this recipe since I used vanilla extract instead. Ho-hum.

The latest addition to the kitchen is going to be an ICE CREAM MAKER. I know, everyone, sing with joy! This officially means that everyone can please stop buying me ice cream whenever you guys come over to visit - we really appreciate it but now have about a week to finish all the stuff in the freezer (I’ve got 8 tubs at last count, only 2 bought by bunny or i) before the new toy comes in! Watch this space for more ways to get fat, and umm.. if anyone wants to help me clear out the freezer, buzz me! If I’m not wrong, these are the flavours we’ve got:

• Haagen Dazs - Vanilla
• Haagen Dazs - Green Tea
• Haagen Dazs - Coffee
• Haagen Dazs - Strawberry
• The Daily Scoop - Lychee Martini
• The Daily Scoop - Earl Grey Tea
• Ben & Jerry’s - Chocolate Fudge something
• Ben & Jerry’s - Chubby Hubby

I’m pretty free next week, so going to devote my time to finishing it all off (I really only like Vanilla, Coffee and Strawberry, ‘cos I’m very boring that way), and then I’ll be researching ice-cream recipes. I think I owe it to myself (and bunny) to find THE perfect Vanilla ice cream recipe (I’ll probably start in the vicinity of my favourite, tried-and-tested custard recipe), then the next one I’m really looking forward to will be a Masala Chai variation. After that - in the spirit of tea - I plan to crack the secret behind delicious matcha ice cream (and probably will bribe eyes with some of it in exchange for some of her delicious redbean paste thingiebob, then I would really, really love to a spicy chocolate one, much like those Mayan blends with cayenne pepper and what not, which is where hot chocolate really came from anyway. Maybe this way I’ll finally be able to create something chocolate that my dear anti-chocolate girlfriend will like. :)

I CANNOT WAIT.

Edit: w00t!! I don’t care if I’m just a lowly sheep following what seems to be a trend (I’ve wanted my own ice cream maker for at least 7 years now, so shall use poverty and age as my excuses for being so late to the game), I’m pretty pleased at this article about home made ice cream in SFGate.com today! -beam

iPhone’s out (for those of you living in a box with no tv, no internet, no newspapers, no magazines, no EARS) and I’m so jealous. Already people are posting pictures of their phones and their initial thoughts and their first reviews and GARGGGHHH.

PS: vick, I’m still speaking in the weird vicki-w accent. hiaop. i’m beginning to think in it!