Blood Orange Pound Cake
It's Blood Orange Season!
The blood oranges have started to arrive here in L.A., and I for one cannot wait to enjoy them all spring long! One way I love to eat them is in this Blood Orange Pound Cake Recipe.
We have two blood orange trees in our garden, topiaries we keep in planters which works out quite nice, except for the fact that take years off. And this would be one of those years, unfortunately! So I’ll have to buy them at the store.
The Benefits of Growing Citrus
You will enjoy the most incredible aroma coming from the blossoms that becomes more pronounced at dusk.
You can use the beautiful blossoms to decorate your citrus desserts (truth be told this is what originally enticed me!)
You can get “dwarf varieties” of citrus trees and grow them in planters. We do this in our front yard and enjoy Meyer Lemons, Cara Cara Oranges, Satsuma Oranges, and limes, all in planters!
Cookbook Update!
As of this email I have just submitted my 63rd recipe for my cookbook! This is a big sense of accomplishment because I’m more than halfway there!
Each submitted recipe represents hours of testing, and measuring (I’m measuring all the metric conversions myself to make sure they are completely accurate for all my international viewers, as opposed to relying on online converters)
And writing, each recipe needs a headnote, a little story about the recipe, how it came to be, and why I think you’ll love it! This has taken some training on my part because writing about a recipe is not like talking about a recipe. In books, you have space limitations! So I’m learning to be more concise ha!
And the most exciting part is happening this week (tomorrow in fact!) I get to meet my creative team. The photographer, food stylist, and prop stylist. They are coming to my house to scout the location (we are shooting everything here!) and to check out all my props. This is the level of detail cookbooks take, each recipe needs to be put on a plate, baked in a dish, or spooned into a bowl, and we need to decide which plate, dish or bowl that will be!
So, I dragged out every last prop I had, from every corner of my house, and it’s all ready for them! (assuming I don’t get called into jury duty (gulp) which I’m on call for this week. Hoping is a slow week at the courthouse!)
Why I Decided to Shoot The Book at Home
Some women collect shoes or designer handbags, but I for better or worse, collect props.
Seafood knives and carved salad bowls, hand-thrown pottery, and baskets, all of which I have lugged back from various trips, wrapped in T-shirts and stuffed into socks (very effective for vintage champagne flutes FYI!) My motto is “11 hours of discomfort on a flight juggling these things, is totally worth a lifetime of enjoyment!”
Join me below for a video tour of some of my favorite things and I’ll tell you more about why I decided to shoot this book at home…
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