I like to decorate birthday cakes. They are still a little sloppy (the one below is a guinea pig, if you couldn't tell), but I get better each year. I hope to be a baddass cake man by the time that we have kids that are old enough to understand that it is their birthday. I just put some of my photos up on Flickr for all you cake voyeurs out there...

Yum. This stuff is really good.

mmm... My favorite Sunday brunch is the pork hash (a pile of roasted root veggies, pork, scrambled eggs, potatoes) and Guinness from Matt Murphy's Pub in Brookline Village. I think that the Irish style homemade ketchup is an key part of the whole experience. They posted the recipe at mattmurphyspub.com - I've definitely got to make this. We just got a mortar and pestle that I haven't tried out yet.

I might need to adjust the quantities a little. I don't think that I need 9 quarts of ketchup.

I ordered myself a couple jars of hot sauce as soon as I found out that Torchbearer Sauces had opened their online store. mmmm hot sauce... After reading a few reviews over at the Hot Sauce Blog, I decided to pick up a jar of the #11 Sugar Fire Sauce and a jar of the #7 Sultry Sauce.

The Sultry Sauce isn't bad. The flavor is good and the heat is nice, but I think that I'll try another one next time. The Sugar Fire Sauce, however, is *yum*. It's a little thin and maybe a tad shy of the perfect amount of heat, but it's still a delicious sauce. Here are the actual ingredients: papaya, mango, mandarin oranges, habanero peppers, brown sugar, pumpkin spice. I can't wait to have it with some vanilla ice cream or maybe try the pancake recipe that Torchbearer has on their web site.

Jess even approves. I caught her enjoying it on some near-nuggets

PS - Welcome to my new "food" category.