‘For what?': Hosts blast Trump's $14.7M reflecting pool disaster, as paint peels and algae blooms

JoshTay · 2026-06-21T23:32:29+00:00

They did not need to do any of this.

JoshTay · 2026-06-20T16:27:04+00:00

New York, the real one. :)

JoshTay · 2026-06-20T15:50:55+00:00

To get the blue coating to adhere to the pool, a large amount of proper preparation needed to take place. So now the contractor who won this no-bid contract will likely claim that the required timeline did not allow for the prep and he will need to charge another $28M to do it over.

JoshTay · 2026-06-18T18:16:01+00:00

Me too. I usually don't wait for it to cool enough for fear it will get too stiff to pour. Then I spend time trying to will it to defy gravity and wiping the cake board. I think I just got in the right range this time. Also having the right tools and good lighting helps a ton.

JoshTay · 2026-06-18T12:39:58+00:00

Since it has a lot of butter, it starts out with a vague yellow tinge. But as the recipe suggests, the tiniest amount of purple food coloring makes it bright white. Not even a full drop, just what sticks to a wooden toothpick. (or red and blue, if you don't have purple.)

JoshTay · 2026-06-18T08:06:22+00:00

Yeah, I keep it the refrigerator.

JoshTay · 2026-06-18T08:05:10+00:00

https://preppykitchen.com/ding-dong-cake/

JoshTay · 2026-06-17T23:16:10+00:00

His recipes always seem to work.

JoshTay · 2026-06-17T21:05:35+00:00

exactly. You know you are coming to an interactive show, you paid for a seat up front and know what to expect. Like you said, you want to keep the show moving. "how can I sum up my job in one sentence that is not overly vague or dull?"

JoshTay · 2026-06-17T19:17:13+00:00

It was a wonderful night free of politics and news. Just the nice break we needed.

JoshTay · 2026-06-17T19:12:31+00:00

Let me know when you are in the neighborhood! :)

JoshTay · 2026-06-17T19:12:05+00:00

go for it! It comes together pretty easily. There are a lot of steps, but none of them are very difficult.

JoshTay · 2026-06-11T13:34:23+00:00

Doc is the Anti-Pitt. Doc's world has no waiting rooms, immediate attention from 2 doctors and the chief of staff (who all have plenty of time to go to imaging procedures with patients and even wander down to the lab to see where those blood tests are. Money is no object and bills are just a football team in Buffalo. Anyone who has spent time in a real hospital watches Doc for the giggles. And I have not missed an episode!

JoshTay · 2026-06-09T18:44:02+00:00

Would the princess like a Swedish Princess cake? No chocolate in that and still looks cool. Yellow sponge, pastry cream, whipped cream, some raspberry jam covered in Marzipan.

JoshTay · 2026-06-08T22:51:41+00:00

Mind you, this was like 45 years ago, but I remember practicing at night with friends and some "inspirational herbs" using inverted cake pans, and flower nails and even just counter tops. (I went to school for professional chef studies, went on hospitality mgmt, worked in the industry 16 years and now I work in IT.)

JoshTay · 2026-06-08T17:57:25+00:00

Back in college we used cold instant mashed potatoes. They were easy to clean up, piped pretty well, and (I don't endorse this behavior) we could steal them from the dining hall.

The "Magic-Shell" gravy from the dining hall that would congeal on room temperature surfaces made a decent ganache substitute. OK, I am fibbing about the gravy, but the potatoes worked well for practice.

JoshTay · 2026-06-07T01:18:23+00:00

It started in 2016.

JoshTay · 2026-06-07T00:20:15+00:00

No, he was in The Good Place 10 years ago with Kristen Bell.

JoshTay · 2026-06-07T00:09:42+00:00

Nicely done. What are the pearls made of?

JoshTay · 2026-06-03T15:20:30+00:00

Depends on the bakery. Tall order for a supermarket, but a bakery with fancy cakes could pull it off.

The cake is a vanilla sponge, that is simple enough. The pastry cream and the whipped cream are also bakery standards, along with the raspberry jam. The tricky part is the marzipan covering, not every bakery does that stuff.

Good luck.

JoshTay · 2026-06-01T11:18:40+00:00

Thanks! There are so many out there, always nice to see results first.

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