{"id":605,"date":"2012-11-12T01:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2012-11-12T01:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:17:03","slug":"2012-week-45-this-cake-is-pleased-to-mead-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/2012-week-45-this-cake-is-pleased-to-mead-you\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Week 45: This cake is pleased to mead you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/La-De-Blog-Honey-cake-with-mead-glaze.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/La-De-Blog-Honey-cake-with-mead-glaze-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"La De Blog - Honey cake with mead glaze\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/La-De-Blog-Honey-cake-with-mead-glaze-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/La-De-Blog-Honey-cake-with-mead-glaze-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/La-De-Blog-Honey-cake-with-mead-glaze.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This week FLEW by:<\/em><\/p>\n<li>Tilda training\n<li>Thrilled that Obama is able to finish what he started\n<li>Spontaneous Amanda\/Stacy hang at Division Ale House\n<li>Checked out a new neighborhood store called <a href=\"http:\/\/paperishmess.com\/\">Paperish Mess<\/a>\n<li>Pre-JV dinner at Native Foods with Steph, Z, and Mark\n<li>JV opening for Crooked Fingers @ Schubas [that moment where you hear David Bazan&#8217;s liony voice behind you while you are backstage and you get strangely nervous!]\n<li>Coworker&#8217;s baby showers\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyschoolscampaign.org\/event\/cookingupchange\/2012\/natl\/\">Cooking up Change<\/a>\n<li>Brunch with Sarah vG and co. at Wishbone\n<li>CakeFork @ Beth&#8217;s\n<li>Post-CakeFork dinner at Bite\n<li>Sold my first bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/laklacquer.etsy.com\">LAK lacquer<\/a>!\n<li>Re-made my two Chicago Christmas cards and brainstormed a new and awesome Chicago Christmas card that I still need an inside message for.\n<\/li>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diytrunkshow.com\">DIY Trunk Show<\/a> next Saturday, November 17th, Rhymes with Twee is Booth 140, on a corner because I am a vendor sponsor. Come say hello, friends &#038; fans! <\/p>\n<p>For CakeFork this year, I made this <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/recipe\/apple-honey-bundt-cake\/detail.aspx\">Apple Honey Bundt Cake<\/a> with Fuji apples, subbing in pumpkin for vegetable oil, leaving out walnuts, and making up a mead glaze (recipe below). I ended up winning the write-in category. People wrote in these things for my cake: &#8220;autumnal,&#8221; &#8220;honey-licious,&#8221; &#8220;best use of alcohol\/medieval beverage\/creative ingredients,&#8221; and &#8220;deliciously medieval&#8221;. Color me PROUD!<\/p>\n<p><em>Mead Glaze<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup mead<br \/>\n1 cup powdered sugar, plus additional for serving<\/p>\n<p>Whisk together mead and powdered sugar. Drizzle over still warm cake and dust with additional powdered sugar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Films watched 45th week of the year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PressPausePlay*<br \/>\nThe Girlfriend Experience<br \/>\nThe American Scream*<\/p>\n<p>*documentary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week FLEW by: Tilda training Thrilled that Obama is able to finish what he started Spontaneous Amanda\/Stacy hang at Division Ale House Checked out a new neighborhood store called Paperish Mess Pre-JV dinner at Native Foods with Steph, Z, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/2012-week-45-this-cake-is-pleased-to-mead-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lak-lacquer","category-om-nom-noms","category-week-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhymeswithtwee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}