http://indirathesweet.com Chef Indira Wiegand's online bakery. Indira is based in New York City and is a classically trained pastry chef. Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:37:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Life is fun. How great is it to be able to say that and mean it. Not every minute is perfection, but that is what keeps us going. We can get ourselves through those low times because hopefully we carry in our head the feeling of the better times. ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/07/26/this-weeks-doings/                                   Can you tell that I have been pie crazy this summer. I have decided there is no better dessert in the summer than a FRESH fruit pie made with fruit straight from the farmer's markets! YUM! http://indirathesweet.com/2008/07/17/summer-in-the-kitchen/ So we are knee deep into summer finally and I have been incredibly neglectful of my blog. I have been writing entries in my head for weeks, but alotta good that does the blog! You gotta get in front of the computer Indira and WRITE the thoughts, observations, etc down!!! So ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/07/17/summer-work/ Unfortunately, early Saturday while getting my ingredients ready for all the cupcake baking ahead of me, I started to feel ill. All week I had been battling the worst bout of allergies I have ever had. So at first I thought it was just more allergy trouble, but as the ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/05/18/cupcake-cookoff/ When my friend Jackie created this for me and I wrote my first few postings, I promised myself I would post at leat once a week. Well, I missed a week, and almost 2. Oh no! Well the world hasn't ended and here I am trying to catch ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/05/16/too-busy-to-keep-up-with-this/ I was asked to make a big batch of chocolate chip cookies for another office birthday. The unusual request was to incorporate some sugar decorations in the order. When you are using cake, those decorations are easy to apply, but in a cookie, I had to think about that for ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/05/02/85/ A portrait of two personalities drawn by toothpaste tubes! I chuckled this morning when I saw these two toothpaste tubes sitting side by side in my bathroom. My friend Jen is staying with me for (god help us both!) about 3 weeks and the differences in how we ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/04/28/dueling-tubes/ When I go to visit friends or just if i am working in a place for a little while, I like to bring something sweet. When I worked at Exhibition Prints Inc. (now defunct), almost every day around 3pm our blood sugar would dip and no matter how busy we ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/04/26/leaving-sweets/ I created this birthday cake for a woman who has a pot bellied pig as a pet. Happy Birthday Diana! I am glad you enjoyed the cake. The last picture is piggy taking a cab ride to his "final destination" ! :) http://indirathesweet.com/2008/04/21/this-little-piggy-went-to/ Today was a the second of two 8+ hours of straight printing! Yikes, I am beyond tired. Can you tell. I always feel so lucky that I have such a nice home to go to after days like this. Although being at the bottom of those stairs staring upwards and ... http://indirathesweet.com/2008/04/11/60/