Dining With The Doctor: Regenerated is a Kickstarter Staff Pick!
almost 9 years ago – Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:24:58 AM

Oh what a day! What a lovely day!

Dining With The Doctor: Regenerated is a Kickstarter Staff Pick!

Reading the notice may have made me feel like time stopped (at 5:02 p.m. on 22 April 2011) but the rest of the world barreled on, spreading the news. Yesterday alone, The Daily Dot, Geeks Are Sexy, Hello Giggles, and a slew of other geek websites let the world know they thought a new Whovian cookbook was fantastic.

Thanks to them, we have 5 days left and only $1400 to raise before reaching our now entirely achievable goal!

Keep sharing the link with your Doctor Who loving friends!

Meanwhile, I present you with an easy recipe for Exploding TARDIS Sandwich Cookies from Season 5, Episode 12, “The Pandorica Opens.”

Don’t forget - if you back at the $35 level or higher, you’ll get your ebook right after it’s delivered to the printers. Since book printing is notoriously slow, that means you’ll have your electronic copy 2-4 months before the print books are available.

One week left? Time to blow up the Pandorica!
almost 9 years ago – Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:06:38 PM

Hey there! I spent most of Towel Day wringing my terrycloth clean of central Texas flood waters. Whether you’re currently imprisoned on a Vogon ship or stuck at a bar awkwardly pretending you don’t notice your friend stuffing free peanuts in your pockets, I hope you’re dry and safe.

Now that the holiday weekend is over, I have new photos to share from one of the easiest yet most dramatic recipes in the cookbook - EXPLODING TARDIS COOKIES.

In honor of Season 5, Episode 12, “The Pandorica Opens,” these cookies are sturdy enough to stand upright - which means you can not only hide a TARDIS in just about any dish, you can also craft your own Stonehenge of blue police boxes. I’m sure that won’t raise any suspicions among either ancient Romans or alien races.

Everyone knows Stonehenge is hiding something. When you snap the sandwich cookies in half, they explode with gears, electricity, and a faint whiff of Gallifreyan life essence. Best of all, this rolled cookie recipe doesn’t need to be frozen before baking. That means less work and more instant gratification. You can get a variety of TARDIS shaped cookie cutters on Amazon, Think Geek, and Etsy.

After I posted a photo of my Weeping Angel Cake, enough of you privately messaged me asking about a blue and white “Angels Take the Phone Box” version that I feel compelled to demonstrate why that doesn’t work.

When you’re dealing with any wet foods that expand as they become dry, darker colors will always bleed into lighter ones. In the case of the chocolate angels inside a white cake, this works to your advantage, creating fiercer, more intimidating angels and coincidentally filling out any possible nicks or scrapes along the edges of their outlines.

Look at the cake above. The very first slice revealed a beautiful angel (with vicious hidden teeth made from pure sugar crystals, but you don't learn that until you blink.)

Now look at the one below.

You can see that I've cut this bundt cake into a gazillion slices. The best three are on the plate. Yes. The BEST.

When you put a white cake inside an aggressively colored darker one, well, let’s just say the Phone Box was determined to vanquish the angels. These three slices weren't just the best from this cake. They were the best from all my white-in-blue experiments combined - and they look more like ghosts than angels. I’ve tested this a few ways (because I really wanted it to work) and achieved the best visual (but not best tasting) results from baking the white cake a day in advance and toasting the angel cutouts to toughen them up before putting them into the blue batter.

I love your questions about tweaking aliens or techniques for the best effects. This kind of testing is a ton of fun for me. Keep the questions coming!

We only have a week left, so help us reach our funding goal by sharing the Kickstarter with your Whovian friends!

Alien (Recipe) Invasion!
almost 9 years ago – Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:22:37 PM

Last week you got a preview of some Ood-tastic recipes. This week, take a peek at an alien invasion so severe you’d think it was Christmas in London!

If you want to lose some fat, wave goodbye to this tofu Adipose as it drifts into a starry sky of miso soup.

Silence will fall when these dumplings emerge from your steamer

Get a new lease on life by rewinding time back to when you were just an adorable little Slitheen egg resting in your buckwheat noodle nest.

Make your Extermination intentions transparent with these Dalek summer rolls.

Visit Kitchen Overlord.com for previews of full recipes. Check out some Dalek Caprese Salad, Deviled Ood with Horseradish and Bacon, Cyberman Pull Apart Bread, and more.

Help us reach our funding goal by sharing the Kickstarter with your Whovian friends!

Art Sneak Preview and Early Ebook Announcement
almost 9 years ago – Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:44:37 PM

We’re at the halfway mark with two weeks left!

As an extra incentive to share the Kickstarter with your friends, everyone who backs us at the $35 level and up will get their ebooks at least two months before the print books roll out.

You see, printing books is really time consuming. Once the printers have the files, it takes anywhere from 8-14 weeks for the books to be physically printed, shipped to Amazon’s warehouse, and made available for sale.

Rather than make you wait for the book’s official release, you awesome Kickstarter backers will get the DRM-free PDF of Dining With The Doctor: Regenerated as soon as it's ready for the printers. You backed it early, so you deserve to see it before anyone else.

Meanwhile, take a sneak peek at some of Tom Gordon’s adorable art that will be accompanying the photos and recipes:

Rumor has it this Bad Wolf carrying a Rose might actually be a member of the royal family.

Contemporary Time Lord dating advice revolves around Texting and Scones.

The Weeping Angels want to play a game of peek-a-boo with you.

In honor of the Christmas specials, we present this heartwarming holiday scene of fang toothed snowmen fighting deadly Christmas Trees.

Help us reach our funding goal by sharing the Doctor Who Cookbook Kickstarter with your Whovian friends!

An Ood Celebration for our 1st 100 Backers!
almost 9 years ago – Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:42:38 PM

Congrats! Last night, we topped 100 backers!

I spent this weekend making and photographing new recipes to give you previews of what’s coming in the new cookbook. Today, I present Ood three ways.

Pork stuffed Ood Bao topped with warm purple cabbage & red onion slaw tentacles sauteed in bacon grease.

Two bite deviled Ood eggs with horseradish &, basil, topped with bacon tentacles and served on a slice of cucumber to keep their tasty brains from falling out. (Preview the full recipe, sans recap, on Kitchen Overlord!)

Soft brained Ood cookies with strawberry tentacles and dark chocolate eyes.

These aren’t necessarily the photos that’ll end up in the final cookbook. Once the Kickstarter is over, the plan is to make ALL the recipes in one chapter during one week then have them photographed together in a marathon session over the weekend. The next week, I move on to the next chapter, and keep repeating one chapter per week until the whole book is photographed. Those photos will no doubt look nicer than these, but I wanted to give you a preview of the tastiness you’re supporting.

Over the next couple weeks, I’ll give you sneak previews of TARDIS themed recipes, Dalek themed recipes and more. Share the recipes, photos, and this Kickstarter with your Doctor Who loving friends so we can meet the funding goal!

I'll close with this Hello Kitty inspired photo that won't end up in the book. I had Bow Tie Pull Apart Rolls. I had Ood Bao. I couldn't resist putting them together.