Playstation Move and Kinect for Xbox 360

The more time I spent with Playstation Move and Kinect for Xbox 360, the more I'm convinced that they're both hitting the market about six months too early.
Not that there's anything wrong with the hardware. Kinect, a special camera that tracks motion, worked fine -- if not a tad laggy -- in the games I played on the show floor. Same goes for the Move, which behaves a lot like a Wii remote, but also with a camera that traces the positioning of the controller in 3D space, and of course the benefit of better graphics. But before the show, I , and neither the Move nor Kinect have it -- yet.

Cake - A Honey Yoghurt Baklava Cake

Chef of the Day or as the kids like to call it COD is our final project at school. We have to make 6 items and present them to our 3 chefs who then judge each item as well as our table set up. The items we have to make are:

A tart

A cake

A bread

A breakfast pastry

A chocolate

A plated dessert

Almond-raspberry cake

Howdy! I'm in that funny place I go to every summer, where the work-me, the food editor at All You, is knee-deep in Thanksgiving and Christmas, while the other me, the home-me, is busy scarfing up all the summer fruits I can get my grubby little paws on. Work = turkey, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, gingerbread; while home = rhubarb, melons, and berries, berries, berries. I love it, though I never do quite get used to it!

So... Sunday night we had a lovely early dinner with the mush's friend Jude (and his parents, of course). This is the sweetest, cuddliest, pudgy-cheekiest, bluest-eyed little fella you ever saw. I love this kid! He's such a jolly little boy, so happy, smiley and full of enthusiasm. No wonder he and the mush are good friends. Here they are, two peas in a pod:

Please!

Anyway, we love his parents, Bliss and Patrick, too. They very kindly invited us to dinner, and so we showed up with the mush and this almond-raspberry cake, which is from my cookbook, You Made That Dessert? I also brought over a work-in-progress recipe from a new book project I'm working on... more on that at a later date. Stay tuned.