caged tomato

illustration friday-fuel

2011-10-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

(Fuel for the winter. The squirrels in Chicago eat very well!)

illustration friday-scattered

2011-10-19T19:48:00.001-07:00

illustration friday-transportation

2010-10-14T14:58:00.001-07:00

some recent custom work

2010-09-17T07:53:00.001-07:00

Illustration Friday-satellite

2010-07-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

daredevil II

2010-05-14T10:24:00.001-07:00

illustration friday fearless

2010-05-13T10:32:00.001-07:00

The Lunch

2010-05-07T18:06:00.001-07:00

illustration friday cocoon

2010-05-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday-ahead

2010-04-29T10:05:00.000-07:00

illustration friday-detective

2010-04-22T11:04:00.001-07:00

IF-Dip

2010-04-07T19:24:00.000-07:00

Food Fan Art: High on Fire

2010-02-04T10:03:00.001-08:00

I'M SO HUNGRY RIGHT NOW

graham cracker donuts

2010-02-04T09:30:00.000-08:00

oops.

These are Graham Cracker cake donuts, with 1 1/2 cups of graham cracker crumbs in them. I don't know what happened here. They were all flaky and crisp on the outside like pie crust. And they soaked up so much oil! Well the thing about donuts is, even the mistakes taste delicious.

cinnamon sugar donuts

2010-02-04T09:25:00.001-08:00

This is the first recipe I tried, I'm cooking my way through Sally Levitt Steinberg's Donut Book.

The recipe is allegedly from Craft, it's basically a brioche dough in donut form. There's a pound of butter in here! A pound! And 7 eggs!

They look beautiful, and they tasted great, but I think I may have had some yeast issues or something, because they were a bit dense. And greasy. But yummy.

Illustration Friday-Focused

2010-02-03T18:15:00.001-08:00

Illustration Friday-wilderness

2010-01-21T17:45:00.000-08:00

Food Fan Art: Lemongrass Tofu Banh Mi

2010-01-20T09:15:00.001-08:00

The torpedo roll sort of makes this whole sandwich, I swear they are fresh out of the oven every time I get one. The banh mi is not for the cilantro faint of heart! And those huge chile slices are HOT. Eye-watering hot. Mmmm.

Food Fan Art: Sugared Brioche

2010-01-13T18:21:00.001-08:00

These are phenomenal. They melt in your mouth like cotton candy. Like warm, buttery, cotton candy.

Illustration Friday-confined

2010-01-13T09:16:00.001-08:00

Food Fan Art: Falafel Special

2010-01-13T07:50:00.001-08:00

I am no food writer. Let me just say this sandwich is delicious!

Illustration Friday-hatch

2009-12-15T20:48:00.001-08:00

(Lightning bug eggs really do glow, I looked it up!)

Musics:

It's All Gone Pete Tong Soundtrack

Part of the Pitchfork best 100 songs of 2009 list. (70-40)

Illustration Friday-entangled

2009-12-03T20:43:00.000-08:00

I don't think this one is quite done.

What did I listen to? Grizzly Bear and The Duchess and the Duke.

Illustration Friday-music

2009-11-24T17:47:00.000-08:00

music listened to:

baroness: red album

eleventh dream day: ursa major

animal collective: merriweather post pavillion

jesus lizard: down

illustration Friday-unbalanced

2009-11-19T18:44:00.001-08:00

experimenting, experimenting.

Music listened to:

more Baroness

Illustration Friday-Skinny

2009-11-05T19:45:00.001-08:00

Nothing says "skinny" like the drainpipes on a pack of mod wolves.

(Very strongly inspired by the Mighty Boosh and The Jam.)

fast

2009-10-29T10:23:00.001-07:00

music listened to:

six organs of admittance

songs:ohia

mastodon-crack the skye

and my upstairs neighbor's jazz

Illustration friday-Frozen

2009-10-20T20:27:00.001-07:00

Music listened to:

Baroness: Blue Record

Skeletonwitch: Breathing the Fire

Sleep: Dopesmoker

holiday card sneak peek!

2009-10-04T06:38:00.001-07:00

illustration friday-caution

2009-08-27T21:03:00.000-07:00

First one!

Music listened to:

Iggy Pop-The Idiot

Magnolia Electric Company-Fading Trails

Mainliner-Mellow Out

Marc Bolan and T Rex-The Slider

Dale's Donut Factory

2009-07-20T11:54:00.000-07:00

On a trip to Stevensville, MI, we stopped in for donuts at Dale's. They have the usual suspects here, but they are baked and fried right behind the counter. So tasty. I have a weakness for plain cake, and cinnamon sugar is #2. OH man this was good. They open at 5 so usually we miss the raised glazed but my husband managed to get some a few days later at about 7:30. Couldn't even get a photo before it was almost gone!

We will miss you, Dale's Donut Factory. See you in my dreams.

this week

2009-07-06T09:35:00.000-07:00

2009-06-08T11:13:00.000-07:00

Hot Milk Cake

See the awesome way the cake stuck to the pan? Lesson learned: butter AND flour your pan. The cake itself was sort of tough and spongy. Not very sweet. It tasted ok though. I'm going to chalk this one up to a lame recipe and not my questionable baking skills.

First there was 'Night of the Living Donut'

2009-06-04T11:54:00.001-07:00

This one was my husband's idea. Honestly, I'm much better at executing the ideas of others. And also copying stuff. I mean, not copying, its an HOMAGE.

hot donut

2009-05-11T19:43:00.000-07:00

This is something I'm working on for the owner of Cockadoodle Doughnuts. I know, what an awesome gig, right?

I started off with a pinup girl body and a giant donut head, but it was far too creepy!

Then I wised up and gave her a donut body. Much cuter. Hot, even.

yum.

hello!

2009-05-11T19:30:00.000-07:00

So, here's the caged tomato blog. I'm not very good at keeping these things up to date, so we'll see! I think I might start trying to cook some of the recipes from my vintage files and cookbooks, and post the results here. Also, of course, stuff I'm working on for my etsy shop! Big plans, big plans.

I have been wanting to make a pineapple upside down cake for, like, ever, and I finally did it this past weekend, happy mother's day to me! It turned out ok, my cast iron skillet was too big so it was a pretty flat cake, but it tasted alright. Not great.

I used this recipe, but omitted the rum, cause I like my booze without food. And thought it best not to give my 4 year old any!

Hmm, I might need to work on my food photography also, this looks like it's right out of a 70s cookbook.