Hey! Hang in there :)
I hope the headache is gone and the cake disaster binned.
Some things you know better than them and some things you learn from them... Hope the cake making - moolah raking - is going great! -L

don't worry...its the inspiration that counts as I am sure my birthday cake will soon show

dammit CC, i TOLD you so ages ago! your chocolate cake rocks, their baking lessons suck.
ps: i like the way you rant :)

Ain't it the truth?
Love the heart felt stream of consciousness.
Oh and thanks for the prayer flag. I'd never have guessed.

Probably I learnt to value a good cake more when I baked a horrible sounding and tasting cake. Like life. Learning to value blessings over things-not-there.

@L - I know, I know. It's just a rant about the chocolate cake.

@Knife - I was miffed because I thought that it would be your birthday cake (since you wanted a small one). So I didn't make you one last weekend and waited till Tuesday! Anyway now you shall have an original G cake, I haven't forgotten :-)

@Mentalie - No babe... the classes are good. Just irritated that we have no control over the ingredients. And I love to rant. Wrote this more for effect than anything else ;-)

@Pat - Thanks! And I can safely say that by now, you know me better than anyone else :-)

@BlueMist - I would appreciate it more too if I made the bad cake first because of my own faults, and then the good cake. Not the other way round. And it's just a rant, don't lecture me please! You should always read my posts with a pinch of salt :-)

Oh I am sorry. I did not mean to lecture you. Sorry again.

Hey CC, the good things about Tuesdays is.. that they come every week :)

I shall wait for the pictures that you take of the Chocolate Cake that you bake the coming Tuesday.

@BlueMist - Please don't be sorry. I said that in jest. I really should learn how to behave. Going back to school hasn't turned me into a brat, it just lets me act more like one out in the open now... I was always a brat :-)

@Himanshu - Are you serious?
You actually think we make chocolate cake every Tuesday?

CC - Now we certainly know you can write (like we needed proof!!) and about the baking, we'll just have to take your word for it - the proof is in the tasting, no? ;)

That's the longest 'meaning-making' sentence I've read in my life! You're brilliant!

@Corinne - Thanks and I can take a hint... when is your birthday ;-)

No, I didn't mean you would bake a chocolate cake every Tuesday at your class? But don't they give you assignments to do at home? And well, this doesn't seem like something they would tell you not to try at home ;)

Ahh my love.... I know how you feel. I would take a class myself if I had the money. I would learn arabic, french, italian, do some tech photog courses, cook asian, yoga, makeup artistry, painting, textile printing and pottery

Okay, I have to tell you, I had a good laugh, please don't throw that bad cake at me...but anyway, if you do, I'll catch it and gobble it, oink.

Have you thought of writing also for a food mag?

I hope you make looooots of moolah, paisa, dough - ha, that was a pun.

@Sheer - I'd like to take some of those classes too but first I want to take an art class and learn how to sketch with charcoal. Also learn Spanish.

@GG - Thank heavens somebody laughed! That's the whole point of a rant anyway. And no I won't throw that sad 1980's institute cake at you. I'll make you better one covered in ganache and hazelnut creme or something like that :D
As for your question on food writing - I think I will answer that in a post. Thank you! I have nothing to blog about these days.