A few weekends ago, we finally made it to Daisy Cakes in Durham. It’s a few blocks down (a pleasant walk) from the Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning. You can’t see it from the market, but just go towards the Scrap Exchange and keep walking and you’ll see the Airstream trailer:
They’ve transformed this family camping vehicle into a land of delicious gourmet cupcakes. You might know I’ve been in pursuit of a gourmet cupcake for awhile now. In Asheville, we found a cupcake place that was charging $4 for a CHOCOLATE cupcake. How boring (and totally not worth it) is that? Similar situation in Georgetown in Washington DC. Figures, after the pursuit of a gourmet cupcake in exotic (OK, maybe let’s say “more urban”) locales, we find the perfect gourmet cupcake right here in the Triangle.
The only disappointment of the day was that the lady in front of us bought the last pumpkin cupcake, which Oak was planning on purchasing. I couldn’t convince him to get a vanilla chai cupcake, so we shared this s’mores cupcake:
It was as tasty as it looks. A browned mashmallow frosting with a graham cracker garnish tops a chocolate cupcake with a surprise chocolate ganache filling. All for $2.50. Not a bargain, but a heck of a lot more reasonable than the $4 cupcake in Asheville! You could tell that some thought, love, and work went into this cupcake. I think there might be a new farmer’s market tradition…
(PS Thanks to Oak for tolerating my cupcake obsessiveness!! haha)
I read a LOT of blogs. Google Feed Reader definitely makes this easier. A neat feature of the reader is that you can “share” blog entries from different blogs and add them to a page. Here’s mine! And, if you use google reader we can share posts there. Neato fedito! Of course, apologies if you don’t want to read a bunch of stuff about scrapbooking and food. Fair warning!
I discovered this site through DailyCandy, I think. It’s an amazing way to organize your travel plans – especially if you’re going a lot of different places and have many reservations to keep track of. For the trip we’re taking in a few weeks to California and Mexico (we’re going to LA, San Diego, and on a Mexican Riviera cruise), I was able to import all of our travel plans simply by forwarding the email confirmations for the reservations to the tripit email account. It even has put in the ports for the cruise! You can also add in notes for restaurants and such, which makes it even easier – I’ll be able to just print our entire itinerary before we leave! (For those of you with the fancy phones, you can also view your trip plans on your phone/PDA).
They’re not even paying me to advertise. It’s that awesome.
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Needless to say, Tina the Tech Writer is my favorite Dilbert character. Except she needs to do something about her helmet hair.
As of late, the nights have been cooler and I’m reminded that fall is coming. We even got a pumpkin from the CSA when we forgot to select our items for the week. It graces our front porch.
For Labor day, the traditional “Last weekend of the summer” , we went to Myrtle Beach camping. We rode some tropical storm waves, played skee-ball in the game room, and had a grand ‘ol time. We found a seafood market, got clams, and bought a $5 grill from Walmart. Here’s Oak cooking them up! Exciting. Who knew grilling clams was such an effective cooking method?
Luckily, in NC my winter jacket doesn’t normally come out until December or January! We still have a few months of “summer” left! Yay!
