Las Vegas Lights

A while back, I visited Las Vegas. It was very hot. Actually, scratch that. It was very, very hot. It was quite an experience though. It was filled with walking (which I love) and hot weather (which I don't love).

To save you from a step-by-step recount of my travels (which would surely bore you to death), here's two little snippets of my trip:

1) The hotel housekeepers were always working. They were working in the morning when I went out for breakfast. I saw the housekeepers and their carts of linen when I went out for lunch. I saw them again when I went out for dinner. I saw them cleaning when I went to mail some postcards. And I am pretty sure that if I sleepwalked, I would have seen the housekeepers cleaning then as well.

2) The parking garage was far away. I will trouble myself to list out how to get to the garage from the hotel room for your entertainment. First, I had to get out of the hotel room, take the elevator down to the first floor, walk through the casino, walk through an atrium, walk through the front desk, take an escalator, go outside, go through a walkway to the parking garage, take the elevator to the level where the car was, and walk through the parking garage to get to the car. Oh yeah! I also had to pass through a humongous fish tank in the process. No wonder it was free to park there...

Here are some pictures from my trip. Enjoy!

Why Hello There!

Why hello! Are you looking for this?

Well, Soft and Stiff Peaks has gotten a face lift! Say goodbye to the gloomy, gray banner. 

Say hello to this:

Obviously, this isn't perfect yet. I'm still going to fidget with it a bit, but don't get scared from the changes and never come back again! :D

How To {not} Bake a Muffin Bread

Hello my dears! Have you guys missed me? Well, please pardon my absence. My baking magic has vanished for the past few weeks. I've burnt dozens of cupcakes and also ended up with a chewy angel food cake. Oh! And did I mention a disgusting chocolate cupcake? Well, now I did. So here's the latest mishap of mine - let me introduce you to the Cream Soda and Blueberry Muffin Bread. 


Don't be fooled by it's appearance! It's basically a vanilla and blueberry muffin. Only instead of it being in the usual muffin form, it's in a bread shape. Unfortunately for me, it turned out to be a olive oil muffin bread specked with blueberries. The olive flavor overpowered everything else, and it ended up tasting like olive oil. I was being healthy that day, and I thought that olive oil could healthy-ify this muffin bread. And yep - it did! In not one, but two ways too! You see, olive oil is totally better for you than butter, since one is unsaturated and the other is saturated. Annnnddd, since it didn't taste good, you are (hypothetically) eating less of the muffin. Therefore, you are saving room in your stomach to eat, presumably, carrot and celery sticks.

So the moral of the story: Don't go pouring in olive oil into everything you bake, because it might not turn out yummy. 

Truffle Box!

Isn't this truffle box pretty? It's even pink on the outside! And it's all edible!

*swoon

from here