A post from Istanbul...

I will start again by sayin "I missed you all soooooooooooooo much!!!". It is great hearing from you guys and seeing pictures of what you have been upto... Me as you know came back and dealing with my body breaking down... uggghhh... I think my body is telling me to go back :)))) So besides that I looked at some job opportunities and seems like besides big hotels and opening up my own place, I do not have much of a choice... Which makes me sad and depressed... So fingers crossed I will find myself something that would make me happy.... So besides all these depressing news I am spending time in our farm house with my grandparents and with the dog I rescued from the streets (does not even learned its name...a crazy free spirit...). We are doing organic farming and at the moment we have raspberries, gaja like apples, cherries, strawberries, artichokes, many herbs, tomatoes,cucumbers,beans and really a lot of stuff... My dearest Grandpa is a garden wizard.. The ones we cannot consume my family donates it to many places... Nevertheless like 2 days before I picked some rapsberries and made cupcakes... I also made little lemon curd tartlets for my moms birthday.. Our family has diabities so did not make a big cake... But made a baklava hehehe... Oh well... I am really scared to frost a cake nowadays scared that I am going to fail doing it... I love you all.. Ifaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttt give some voice here I know it is hard with 3 cute princesses but please I miss you! Put some pictures! Z

Kara'a Cupcakes in the Marina

I had a job interview here on Monday! The owner gave me some samples to take home... so good! All their ingredients are from less than 100 miles away and mostly organic. The flavors I brought home were:

Sweet Vanilla- vanilla cupcake with a sweet madagascar bourbon vanilla frosting (Ryan's favorite!)

Passion Fruit- Vanilla cupcake with passion fruit cud and vanilla buttercream

Java- vanilla or chocolate cupcake with a rich espresso buttercream

Fleur de Sel- chocolate cupcake with caramel filling, ganache frosting and fleur de sel (my definite favorite!!)

This place only sells cupcakes at a cute boutique-style setting. The cupcakes are displayed in glass jewelry cases- such a great idea... They also have 2 kinds of frosting: traditional buttercream and what she called "American Buttercream" basically, homemade Betty Crocker-esque tub-like frosting... they were both delicious!

Miss you girls and hope your summers are great!