Chocolate/Rosewater Muffcakes

During my trip to Vienna, I visited this one cool Indian grocery shop and I came across a bottle of rosewater for an unusually low price. See, in Prague, the only place I could find a bottle of rosewater was Marks & Spencer and it was expensive as hell and there wasn't too much of it. So I didn't have to think for too long and  got it.

Fast forward to this Sunday, I had a hard time deciding what muffins should I bake for the Monday morning. I had cocoa powder and chocolate ready for some hot baking action and then I still had this bottle of rosewater sitting on my shelf, unopened. So after a while I decided to use both, just to try it and see if it works.

Diablo 3 Teacakes

You must be at least lv 60 to take on these bad guys

In celebration of Diablo 3 coming out in couple hours, I've made a little something to make the time go by faster. These Diablo 3 "devil" teacakes are balancing on the sweet and darkly bitter line of chocolate flavour that would make even personalised Gluttony's mouth water. Adorned with cute red horns, they are best enjoyed with a cup of tea (or black coffee if you prefer) since they're as dry as the parched ground of the deepest Hell.

Now, only couple more hours till it begins.

Star Trek Catan

On my recent trip to Vienna I found this peculiar modification to Settlers of Catan. The back of the box showed that it practically is still Settlers of Catan just with the Star Trek theme. I guess Trekkies need more
Catan love than we thought :)

Brownies

These brownies really are something.
I was told that you can't really make bad brownies unless you burn them. But some brownies are just better than others.

I've made brownies couple times and never they seemed to live up to my expectations. I mean, brownies do have this aura of being extremely yummy and every time they turned out to be "just okay".

Not this time though. The recipe I got inspired by says these are the Perfect Brownies. Perfect - that's a word that comes up often with recipes from google search and rarely the final product really delivers perfect results. But in the end, even the sceptic in me was surprised how *GOOD* these brownies were.

A Game of Thrones

This franchise is all the rage nowadays. The books are bestselling, the TV show is universally loved and there is even a board game that has found its way to me. When I first played it, I hadn’t read the book (and so far I still have to read any of them) and hadn’t seen the show. The only thing I knew was that there are medieval families that are fighting over a throne and that there are dragons in it somewhere. I gave it a go with a group of friends who knew what was going on and kept quoting phrases that I didn‘t understand. Well, I thought, at least I can focus on the game itself and abstract from the theme, look into the design.