.: The Great Missoni Race :.

I've never owned a Missoni before; aside from their products are ridiculously expensive I also don't think I can pull off wearing colorful chevron pattern all over my shapeless body. There's a possibility that some lines may look über-stretched in several areas and I don't want to risk it. Then Target announced a collaboration project with Missoni. Suddenly I'm crazy about zigzags. Since my sister-in-law and her mother are big fans we decided to go on Missoni hunts, or shall I say Missoni race. It did feel like a crazy race. I woke up at 4AM on Sept 13, went on target.com only to find that the site was down. We went to the store at 8AM and the Pasadena location was practically raid. In another location, women ran from parking lot to the store, knock each other over a pair of shoes. Hoarding of zigzag stuff everywhere. There were some women who form a coalition and only trade stuff between themselves. A woman left her son with a complete stranger while she was trying a cart of clothes, and ended up buying clothes that are 3 sizes too big. We haunt fitting rooms and customer service, digging on stuff that people returned. I went to Target in cities I've never heard before. It was madness. I wasn't planning to get a lot of stuff but in the spirit of the day ended up with tons of Missoni goods. My Missoni fever went on for a couple of days, but thankfully I'm quite recovered now. I'm returning most of the clothes (or eBay...) and will only keep the home goods.

.: the bakezilla returns :.

I was feeling rather under the weather after we went to Disneyland last week. Can you believe it? I need a week to recover from a one day trip to Disneyland!! What a total grandma. (I think even my grandma was a lot stronger than me) My back ache, my feet sore, and I couldn't get up because all my bones hurt. As I was lying down on the couch while waiting for the pain killer to kick in, I turned the TV on to Giada's Sweet Treat episode. She was making scones for her husband and the inner bakezilla in me thought 'I can totally do that!'. So I did. And they turned out so yummy I can't stop eating them. 

Testing my new measuring spoon

I got it right this time! Super cold butter and heavy cream are the keys!

et voila: strawberry & rosemary scones. yum!

.: Wedding Shtuff! :.

Our wedding video highlight & photos are ready! So happy to be able to see the day from a different perspective. Nick & Wilson from LT3 Productions are amazingly talented, we're so glad we chose them.

.: button cookies :.

I found this posting through my endless blogventure, fell in love with the illustrated recipe and declared that one day I will make them.
An opportunity presented itself: after a super failed attempt to bake strawberry macarons.

{macaron-wannabe turned into almond-flavored cookies} 

I have too much egg yolks waiting to be turned into something edible. And I refuse to make another egg foo young.

Somehow an image of the gorgeous button cookies appeared in my head. I switched the shortbread recipe into Emeril's butter cookies. I don't have food coloring so the cookies stay natural-looking. They tasted pretty good and they're just as cute as buttons (ahaha... sorry, can't help it) Wish I have food coloring so they look prettier.

.: vegas gluttony trip :.

I'm not a gambler at all, so when I go to Vegas I spend my money on the real deals: food, lots of them. On this trip we went home with so many sugary treats and very bloated tummies from the buffet. I also tried Payard's macarons because I failed his recipe. Want to see if he really know what he's talking about. Heh. I was disappointed because the packaging was so lame. For $8 surely they can come up with a nicer box? The macarons came pre-packaged in a thin plastic bag and taped with the label. That's it. I prefer Paulette's macarons because theirs are less sweet, but that's probably just my personal preference. Plus their box is nice. We also went to Wicked Spoon. The food was okay, but the dessert section was to die for. We probably tried 8 flavors of ice cream there and I ate almost all of their pretty desserts.

Yummy macarons.

Assorted dessert from Wicked Spoon

Payard's macarons.

Payard's meringue. Love the mint.

Dunkin Donuts

Bouchon's Croissant

.: singsong :.

Back to my Youtube Wednesday. I do want to be sent away with words of a love song and I'll be wearing white. Hope someone remember me liking this song when I die old.