Day 106

I am sitting here with my honey watching the movie Julie & Julia.  Instead of feeling all gooey and warm from a very sweet chick flick, I am feeling overwhelmed and depressed.  I am 106 days into my blog, when Julie was 106 days into her blog she had cooked hundreds of mouthwatering dishes and she didn't even cheat on the aspics.

Somehow my misery is motivating me.  If Julie can steam lobsters and de-bone a duck, then I can surely get something on my list done this week.  I am going to start with baking a cake from scratch.  If you only knew how much I dislike baking cakes than you would understand how truly motivated I must be to tackle this.  I have a knack for making cakes turn out horrible. The only time I made a scruptious cake was for Micah's 5th birthday and I really can't take credit for it.  Paulette found the recipe and did most of the baking.  I, however, shaped it into a  very cool dinosaur. 

As you may know, my motto is go big or go home.  As with most things I am going big.  I found a beautiful picture on Epicurious.com and decided that for my first cake would be 

                          Persian Love Cake

This chiffon cake filled with rose-scented whipped cream is inspired 

by the aromatics found in Persian, Turkish, and Indian confections. 

Cardamom seeds have more flavor than the ground powder

 and are like little explosions of spice in the cake. 

Doesn't that sound simply amazing?  Please start praying, hard!