tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77085514833734718032024-03-13T00:50:04.476-07:00Little Frosted AdventuresWithin this site you'll find my successful and disastrous baking adventures. Cupcakes, frosting, cookies, muffins, if it doesn't involve vegetables I may make it someday.Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-85974692487098010612011-10-15T23:38:00.000-07:002011-10-16T22:11:44.562-07:00Another long over due update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, you know when you get started on a project that you're really excited about at first and it just seems like the best idea you've ever had, then after you start working on it you realize that it really isn't something you're all that passionate about? That is what Little frosted adventures has become for me.<br />
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I like cooking, I like baking, I create tolerable edible things with those skills. But, it really isn't my passion. I don't wake up in the morning thinking, <i>I really want to bake something today.</i> All the non fun parts of cooking get on my nerves, washing the dishes, organizing my cupboards, packaging the finished products, and even decorating things. In the end if it tastes good I really don't care how it looks, and frosting/icing things is one of my greatest weaknesses, I can not use an icing bag to save my life. I have no desire to learn how to do things correctly, or open a bakery, I don't want to become a chef, I don't want to get a food handlers card. I wouldn't mind a fancy chef hat though.</div>
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The point is, this started as a neat idea and ultimately as a distraction from college which was driving me crazy. Then things started getting in the way and I easily cast it aside, then I tried to pick it up again after Nikolai was born thinking it would be a great way to pass the time as a stay at home mom, only to discover that being a mom was fun enough on its own.</div>
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I've tried time and again to stick with it for the sake of sticking with it but, this isn't going to lead to a predictable posting pattern or a great deal of my time. Sorry folks. It just isn't for me. Kelsey, however, one of the guest posters we had awhile back, she is making a business out of her baking. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LuckyCatBakery">Lucky Cat Bakery</a>, you should buy something from her. Her creations are delicious and beautiful.</div>
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As for me, I have found what I am passionate about, photography. I know the photos on here aren't much to look at, in fact all of them are pretty abysmal. (In my defense they were all taken before I had really learned anything about how to take good pictures.) When I was pregnant we took a birth class at <a href="http://www.gentlebirthcenter.com/">Bella Vie</a> where we met another couple, Leah and Bryan. Together they run <a href="http://www.bryanruppphotography.com/">Bryan Rupp Photography</a>, Bryan is a very talented photographer and as we got to know them I came to see that artistic careers aren't a one way path to homelessville. It will be a really tough path, for sure, but I am looking forward to all of it. Cleaning lenses, checking exposure, post processing, learning to hike, hauling a baby and a ton of gear (be it the baby or camera variety) somewhere to take just a handful of pictures. Overcoming my fear of talking to people and overwhelming introversion, accounting, record-keeping, I am excited about all of it. I feel kind of silly, why couldn't I see it all along? Why did it take so many obviously wrong endeavors down different career paths to figure it out? It seems so obvious now. Art has been my favorite thing to do forever, drawing, coloring, taking pictures, beading, sewing, I love making things beautiful. The problem is, I become extremely attached to the things I make, if I take the time to crochet a blanket it is going to stay with me forever or go to someone I know and love, because it has hours of my time and a piece of me in it. I want it to be cherished and taken care of. If I draw a picture I feel the same way, and paintings which I am so so bad at, they nearly kill me to create, I wouldn't be able to give one away for any sum of money without being heartbroken. Photography, however, I can create images that I can share without bounds. No matter what happens I will always be able to look back and see them, I can share them with the world without any detriment to the original. I don't have to worry about people caring for them because a print is replaceable. It seems kind of odd, I know, but I've always been overly sentimental, I'm weird.</div>
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During my life I've taken thousands of terrible pictures, but I've always loved it. When I was a kid I would go on drives with my grandparents all over Oregon. It meant lots of hours in the van, always on the scenic route, staring at trees, and more trees, and more trees. Eventually we'd get where we were going, usually to look at grass and gray skies, and some sort of attraction or another. I was little, I didn't appreciate most of the places we visited at the time, but I loved documenting the trip. Disposable camera in hand I took pictures of everything I could. Sometimes I got to use Gawa's camera, and very rarely I got to use my grandfather's special camera. In middle school before 8th grade they gave me my first digital camera, it was meant for me to take pictures of my final year of junior high. That camera stayed with me up until last year when I replaced it... twice. In its lifetime it took more pictures than I can count, broody teenager self portraits, fun friend outing photos, awful artsy pictures of flowers, trips, the first time I met my dad, my baby shower, everything. It served me well. The problem was that I never noticed, all of this photography was taking place in my life and it was so common place that I never thought about it, it didn't cross my mind as a possible career choice, it didn't strike me as something that I could pursue, it just was what I did when I wasn't doing homework or whatever else was going on.</div>
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When I tried to start blogging again after Nikolai was born I wanted to figure out why I couldn't get excited to write about baked goods, I figured I was just unhappy with out unprofessional my site looked. My first thought about how I should improve it was better pictures. So, I told Tim, we needed a new camera. We budgeted and worked one in right around black Friday. (I know, boo consumerism boo!) It was a fancy looking Nikon point and shoot, I figured that would be everything I could need. It wasn't a dslr, like I wanted, but it was only a fraction of the price. So, we went ahead and ordered it. Then it arrived, and for the first week I thought it was the best thing in the entire world, I could take pictures of Nikolai that didn't have a ton of hideous noise, I could change between so many different settings, it was so exciting. </div>
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I started trying to take more and more pictures and really started looking into improving my results. Soon I was itching for a dslr again, I wanted to be able to control everything, focus, aperture, focal length, iso, I needed to be able to say that I was who took the picture not the camera. Tim and I talked about it, and I really started working on my photography, I read book after book about composition, exposure, lighting, posing, everything I could get my hands on. I researched cameras thoroughly, wanting to make sure that I got exactly what I wanted this time.</div>
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In May I was able to buy a used Pentax K-7 with a 18-55mm kit lens, I also ordered an old used manual focus 55mm f/2 prime off of <a href="http://www.pentaxforums.com/">Pentax forums</a>. It took me awhile to get the hang of it, white balance was hard, getting the focus right was hard, figuring out how to actually set exposure on a real camera instead of reading about it in a book was hard, it all still is, but it is getting easier. And every time I get to pick up my camera and go out and shoot something (yes, that sounds kind of grusome) I am completely thrilled.</div>
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There is a lot of discouragement for beginning photographers out there, lots of name calling, Fauxtographers, mom with a camera, the list goes on, for the first time in my life I am not letting it get to me. I know I will be successful at this, even if it takes a few failures, It is as natural for me as being a mom, I've got plenty of things to learn but deep down I just know that this is perfect for me and nothing in the world could change that.</div>
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I am not sure how this post got to be so long, it was just supposed to be the final, this baking blog thing isn't going to happen post, and then all the sudden I'm relaying my life to you. Sorry about that.</div>
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I may or may not post things in the future, but really, it's pretty much over, it has been fun, thanks for reading.</div>
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P.S.<br />
My photography site is <a href="http://jessicality.com/">http://jessicality.com/</a><br />
And you can reach me at <a href="mailto:Jessica@jessicality.com">Jessica@jessicality.com</a><br />
Also! You should like my photography page on facebook, because we all love social media. Right?<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JessicalityPhotography">https://www.facebook.com/JessicalityPhotography</a></div>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-51071222865019783572011-08-10T15:26:00.000-07:002011-08-10T15:27:27.664-07:00Ramen - a guest post from Jamie of Insomniac ScribblesJamie writes <a href="http://weloveme07.blogspot.com/">Insomniac Scribbles</a>, and I asked her to do a guest post many months back. Then I got overwhelmed and never got around to posting it. Jamie I am very sorry that this took me so long to get put up.<br />
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<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.06632407079450786" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top Ramen, the sustenance of American college students. Easy to make; just plop it in a bowel with enough water to cover the square of dehydrated noddles and nuke it for about 2:00 minutes or until the noddles have re-hydrated. Rip open the flavor pac (I always liked to drain out the water and just stir the flavor pac with the noddles), available in either chicken, oriental, or beef, stir and voila~ a filling, sodium packed carbohydrate bowel of satisfaction; all for only 10 cents a package. Or perhaps you're the kind that rips open the pack with the sole intention of only using the noodles to add a little crunch to your salad, some substance to that casserole, or whatever else you can think of that requires low quality dehydrated noodles. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But back to the big question; how do they eat it in Japan? Nothing like the above, let me tell you. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is what a typical bowel of homemade Japanese ramen looks like: </span><br />
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<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; vertical-align: middle;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These noodles are actually different but I couldn't find a good picture<br class="kix-line-break" />with maruchan noodles.</span></div></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you can see, the main difference is embellishments. Now, how to get from your American microwaved mess to that? Simple. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Pack of either Top Ramen or Maruchan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. egg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. dried seaweed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. imitation fish (that white and pink circle thing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Ta-ke ( pickled bamboo shoots)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Thinly sliced meat (beef, pork, what have you; cubed chicken would even work, though i've never tired it).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. Sesame seeds</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Choice of stock. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can already tell what you are thinking though; "where am I going to find bamboo shoots and dried seaweed??". Well if you have an Asian supermarket nearby then go there. If not, they might have these items in the ethnic section of any grocery. But pretty much you can substitute these things for items more to your liking ( pickled bamboo shoot is sort of an acquired taste). You should have any probably with the imitation fish, just ask the fish department and they can point you in the right direction. Here are some alternatives that I think might be tasty:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Imitation crab (instead of the pink swirly thing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. nix the dried seaweed and add green onions (or leaks) instead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Shrimp instead of meat (or shitake mushrooms for you vegetarians out there)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Carrots, bell peper, corn, red radish,broccoli even would be good.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You mainly want to pay attention to the flavor of the soup when adding in the other ingredients, which leads me to my next section; the soup.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can use the flavor pacs but I recommend going the extra mile and using your own stock; the lesser the sodium the better. Chicken, beef, pork, vegetable, fish; all acceptable. Or if you're into Miso soup you can even make a Miso Ramen which is the recipe that I'll provide.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recipe courtesy of of </span><a href="http://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-miso-ramen/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">r</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">asamalaysia.com (slightly modified)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INGREDIENTS:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ramen noodles (one pack)<br class="kix-line-break" />2 cups water<br class="kix-line-break" />2 tablespoons white miso paste<br class="kix-line-break" />1/4 teaspoon hondashi (Japanese fish stock)</span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/rasamalaysia-20/detail/B0002YB40O/105-6436441-2560415"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" />1 hard-boiled eggs<br class="kix-line-break" />1 narutomaki (Japanese fish cake with a pink swirl)<br class="kix-line-break" />1/2 stalk scallion (finely chopped)<br class="kix-line-break" />1/2 tablespoon white sesame seeds (for topping)<br class="kix-line-break" />Light soy sauce to taste (optional)<br class="kix-line-break" />Some seasoned roasted seaweed (cut into thin strips)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Directions:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring the water to boil and then add in the miso paste, hondashi, eggs. Bring the soup base to a boil. Add in soy sauce to taste. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put the ramen noodles in a separate pot of boiling water until they are cooked. Rinse with cold running water, drain, and set aside.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a serving bowl, add the noodles and then take out the hard-boiled egg (sliced in half), narutomaki and chopped scallion from the soup base and top the noodles. Then pour the miso soup into the bowl and add the roasted seaweed and sesame seeds. Serve immediately.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See, not so hard. Although a little bit more expensive than your average bowl of ramen it is 10x tastier. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thank you Jessica, for giving me the opportunity to share the secretes of Japanese cooking with your lovely audience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PEACE OUTSIDE</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jamie </span></div>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-36737513949475175862011-08-10T01:25:00.000-07:002011-08-10T01:25:50.833-07:00A little off topicSo, this is a baking blog. I however have no time to bake any more, I'm busy chasing around Nikolai trying to keep him from eating things he has hidden under the couch.<br />
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We're stuck in a rut of eating the same things all the time, because they're on autopilot. We get out the ingredients and then somehow dinner comes together without anyone dying or being gravely injured. I most certainly don't have time for the extravagant plans I had for you guys. Bare minimum cookies are a stretch to get completely.<br />
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I have been horrible neglectful with this blog, I tried doing posts with my phone, which were horribly horribly subpar. Really, they were atrocious. I might have continued doing that if my phone hadn't been hidden by a certain little boy. I seriously have no idea where it is.<br />
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I deeply apologize to all my readers and co posters, and guest bloggers whose posts I haven't put up yet. I am very sorry.<br />
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I don't know what my plans are for this blog, I need to figure some things out before I keep trying to make promises.<br />
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-JessicaJessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-62444941373466771632011-03-19T20:46:00.001-07:002011-03-19T20:46:51.007-07:00Ugly super moon cake<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZiFCoGw9Dd-fr2g0PHe9_d8tA-kPT4BysrThKPl_qmRo4IxMZLMEQixr1_GeXF2WnmpKVjv9GzdtyOAGMbJ54dQ9xPoADR0uSLFIyKLn7cp6e7YLLKaJv9pUpUEoit-TdmalcJ6eZXI/s1600/2011-03-19+20.43.05-711008.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZiFCoGw9Dd-fr2g0PHe9_d8tA-kPT4BysrThKPl_qmRo4IxMZLMEQixr1_GeXF2WnmpKVjv9GzdtyOAGMbJ54dQ9xPoADR0uSLFIyKLn7cp6e7YLLKaJv9pUpUEoit-TdmalcJ6eZXI/s320/2011-03-19+20.43.05-711008.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586003591464016226" /></a></p>Well no big recipe tonight, but here is the hideous mistake of a layer cake I made this evening to celebrate the super moon. Happy moon parties everyone!Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-1887216170690642492011-03-12T22:41:00.000-08:002011-03-12T23:16:43.455-08:00Trying to post about potatoes with my phone<div class="mobile-photo"></div><div class="mobile-photo"></div><div class="mobile-photo" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="mobile-photo" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6LihMWwsNCLNlk4Xm38IC9WMkecs_tagPnKnZ69tUM0JID8g0cT1nnIozBeTJ3EhZ-MSacMkXggJQiYXlgRdpvaavyQhGJmnzUA4vWQ26JJtdHdDrQogA-Iiyd-B5m07wmBMbSXohfA/s1600/2011-03-12+21.39.49-781004.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583458262563780722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6LihMWwsNCLNlk4Xm38IC9WMkecs_tagPnKnZ69tUM0JID8g0cT1nnIozBeTJ3EhZ-MSacMkXggJQiYXlgRdpvaavyQhGJmnzUA4vWQ26JJtdHdDrQogA-Iiyd-B5m07wmBMbSXohfA/s320/2011-03-12+21.39.49-781004.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz0bD72iSuKnGDqm8WeU-yuG2Q2q1q63wagZAl8bCQyI-SCnHtVV_3sgstGPgGoyW2MjxrvryMWzjxgYwwapI79SLkoo7cnqniiD8JHmtY5GKY7MuteSGb5y0Cal7E81q-H9lhzMHddM/s1600/2011-03-12+21.52.19-781905.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583458267192853106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz0bD72iSuKnGDqm8WeU-yuG2Q2q1q63wagZAl8bCQyI-SCnHtVV_3sgstGPgGoyW2MjxrvryMWzjxgYwwapI79SLkoo7cnqniiD8JHmtY5GKY7MuteSGb5y0Cal7E81q-H9lhzMHddM/s320/2011-03-12+21.52.19-781905.jpg" /></a></div><div class="mobile-photo" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ciNWXqU5g7zQCocNrZpF-BW0zJfyb9O4JhXBDwBwj0rKP2znRCAy9p4p62hlj7XZx2F2RG1S7R_DDCzWQ2uC2QMC2VBeLoa7LTm4eIWrd7fUQFbTD7MViIu-Nhs1wDFiz7CKk2OaNtY/s1600/2011-03-12+21.55.00-778408.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583458249440110034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ciNWXqU5g7zQCocNrZpF-BW0zJfyb9O4JhXBDwBwj0rKP2znRCAy9p4p62hlj7XZx2F2RG1S7R_DDCzWQ2uC2QMC2VBeLoa7LTm4eIWrd7fUQFbTD7MViIu-Nhs1wDFiz7CKk2OaNtY/s320/2011-03-12+21.55.00-778408.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_-1-4l1ERhLDHoDQVa7qf8Bh_FkFDO3_8sj67vFlUJymBajFUGzHyvvBxQuzWEIfn5hD8AFoK2CzIKrCIukj1RTbFlBBufS_IhSzjvi7lnT0DCvMIjdlozQay3CZD56c0HqnWB4ksjw/s1600/2011-03-12+21.59.50-779619.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583458254094226722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_-1-4l1ERhLDHoDQVa7qf8Bh_FkFDO3_8sj67vFlUJymBajFUGzHyvvBxQuzWEIfn5hD8AFoK2CzIKrCIukj1RTbFlBBufS_IhSzjvi7lnT0DCvMIjdlozQay3CZD56c0HqnWB4ksjw/s320/2011-03-12+21.59.50-779619.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Either peel or not peel your potatoes slice them up fairly (this time I did 1.5 mm but usually I go thicker) then toss them with 1-2 tablespoons olive oil and seasonings of your choice (I am a fan of seasoninf salt, but you can use whatever) lay them out on a wire rack above a cookie sheet and vaje at 450° for 10 - 30 minutes depending on thickness. Letting them get light brown spots will leave them soft but if you wait for them to get a bit darker they willbe crispy but have a stronger flavor.</div>Happy baking everyone!Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-49783843003279483922011-03-08T18:19:00.001-08:002011-03-08T18:19:27.214-08:00Posting Will return soon!I have several projects underway, the baby boy has just been keeping me extra busy with his new escape tactics. New posts will resume within the week! I promise!<br />
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And we've got exciting stuff, a guest post from Japan, all sorts of fun stuff!Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-12362126128506070712011-01-19T23:43:00.000-08:002011-01-19T23:46:30.557-08:00No recipe tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w_DZ2_bSDkz4oa4N1GPsDq-O09GUP_X2NIqYtwK-A6l4gnMIvdHj8CBuqtG7kDIqJr99HrvDQue8dhKWfSjlf2Z2tMmEbMbrO71N82K21dpHHs6n1HqfGiOJvnIzcg8eEds7cb9YvGg/s1600/DSCN0966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w_DZ2_bSDkz4oa4N1GPsDq-O09GUP_X2NIqYtwK-A6l4gnMIvdHj8CBuqtG7kDIqJr99HrvDQue8dhKWfSjlf2Z2tMmEbMbrO71N82K21dpHHs6n1HqfGiOJvnIzcg8eEds7cb9YvGg/s640/DSCN0966.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />
A few mornings ago I woke up to sirens, I assumed someone on our street had a small fire, today I found out it was because a family lost their two month old to SIDS. I don't personally know the family, I hadn't even known there was another family with a baby on our street, but I can't help but feel for them and imagine myself in their position.<br />
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So, tonight instead of a new post I'm going to cuddle Nikolai and be extra thankful for him and his health. I hope all of you can send your thoughts, prayers, well wishes (whatever you believe in) to the family in hopes that somehow they can get through this.Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-89679465485529547512011-01-18T02:46:00.000-08:002011-01-18T02:46:06.347-08:00Charred yet gooey gluten free failure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_S00Y__AoCzz3hPmHbAnFlkGP6Zox2mHLip1uqfzBgCznaiwjFQTvJDU-6dtNsVh2m4tOefwUKf4N6WEF41GpFP8YaB9_ADj2EUwPzaoK_mXbGt0EVJMBtW0oOywJfiddfmovWwHOZD8/s1600/DSCN1757.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_S00Y__AoCzz3hPmHbAnFlkGP6Zox2mHLip1uqfzBgCznaiwjFQTvJDU-6dtNsVh2m4tOefwUKf4N6WEF41GpFP8YaB9_ADj2EUwPzaoK_mXbGt0EVJMBtW0oOywJfiddfmovWwHOZD8/s400/DSCN1757.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, with another attempt at gluten free baking I had every intention of making bread. I got all the ingredients ready, I started the bread machine, I sat and waited.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An hour and a half later I smell smoke, the breadish concoction had risen over the edges, spilled over and dripped onto the heating element. I removed the not fully cooked bread thing and it immediately deflated to half its size. It's now sitting looking pathetic and gross in my sink.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm not sure what I did wrong, I used a gluten free baking mix... I'll just have to try again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am sick, baby boy has a cough and Tim is a bit more tired than usual, we're a grim bunch over here. This calls for comfort food and movies. Luckily I'm well armed, smores mush and the 10th Kingdom (a 7 hour long made for tv movie that I've loved since I was a kid).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4 graham crackers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4 large marshmallows</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 tbl butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 chocolate bar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Smash up the graham crackers</li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li>Grate up half of your chocolate, I use a vegetable peeler, but a fine cheese grater should work just as well, maybe a zester. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Microwave your marshmallows and butter for ten seconds, take them out and mix and then repeat once more </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Dump in the graham crackers and mix well </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Next dump in the grated chocolate and mix some more</li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Finally top it off with the rest of the chocolate broken up into bite size pieces and eat with a fork while wearing pajamas and being pathetic. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> If you wanted you can do this just like you would rice krispy treats and smooth them out into a pan then cut them into bars but you'd need to increase the amounts and microwaving time </li>
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</div>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-52167624118059182011-01-13T00:28:00.000-08:002011-01-13T00:30:05.831-08:00Pizza! For lack of a better title...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9T7ABYkMDBECIxAYkPqIzvsRqDZsrwHjc39Yt9zWRPVTwxaBHSt4pomTc7x4vQTJAvwn-mAvrb_nHlW0e8D8SDW7TbjQyVPeZLKS3WXEljxYaMLh1X9PpnoPFcQHlxsOoiyHg5Q3b19c/s1600/DSCN1740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9T7ABYkMDBECIxAYkPqIzvsRqDZsrwHjc39Yt9zWRPVTwxaBHSt4pomTc7x4vQTJAvwn-mAvrb_nHlW0e8D8SDW7TbjQyVPeZLKS3WXEljxYaMLh1X9PpnoPFcQHlxsOoiyHg5Q3b19c/s400/DSCN1740.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's an interesting recipe today, pizza dough with apple juice, not as a beverage, but as an ingredient. Yes, that is what I meant. A bunch of pizza dough recipes call for beer, and that didn't work for us, so, I decided to attempt apple juice instead. You can usually substitute apple sauce for butter, so why not?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The answer to that would be, well it sounds like it would be terrible. But! It isn't, it's very good. I promise. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ingredients:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 cup Apple juice</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 tbl olive oil</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 tbl sugar</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp salt</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tbl yeast</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp baking soda</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 1/2 cups flour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">garlic powder to taste</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 bread maker or an electric mixer or a person with far too much patience and time</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pizza toppings of your choice</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Directions: </span></div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Microwave your apple juice until it is luke warm, 45 seconds did it for me </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In the mixer part of your breadmaker/mixer bowl/normal bowl (depending on how you're making this) combine the warm apple sauce and yeast, stir it up with a fork </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Measure out your other ingredients and add them to the apple juice/yeast. </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If you're doing this in a bread maker set it to dough and start it </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If you're doing this with a mixer mix it until combined and then let it rest for ten minutes, do this for 2 hours </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> If you're doing this by hand mix it together, knead it a few times, let it rest, repeat until you're so tired of kneading bread that you're ready to give up completely (but in reality give it four cycles of knead then rest </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Separate your dough into at least two parts, (I did four and it made four personal pizzas big enough for an adult) </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Roll your dough sections into balls and then squish/pull/whatever until they're roughly pizza shapes </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Poke holes with a fork across the surface of the dough then let the dough rest once more while the oven preheats</span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Preheat your oven to 350 ° F </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Bake for 6 minutes </span></li>
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</span></div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nikolai was having a cranky evening so that is why this is late, sorry about that. Do you have any strange substitutions you use while cooking?</span></div></ol><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the mornings I rarely have time to make myself breakfast, and I'm not a cold cereal and milk sort of person. So, with Mr. Nikolai here to keep me busy I've been having pretty lousy breakfasts unless my husband helps me out. I needed something easy to make. This is just trial one, I have many other ideas for these, but for now they're so wonderful, the biscuit part is moist and them the cheese and the bacon and mmmm I'll probably gain ten pounds eating these and then die of a heart attack, but they're so good.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This includes the absolute best way to make bacon which I learned from <a href="http://www.cookingforengineers.com/">Cooking for Engineers</a> and their bacon cooking tests (<a href="http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/3/Bacon-Part-I">one</a> and <a href="http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/110/Bacon-Part-II">two</a>). Whether you just make bacon or the whole biscuits, I really recommend trying this technique out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ingredients:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 cups flour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 inch of a tillamook cheddar cheese baby loaf (I would say two mousefuls but I doubt you all have mousey cheese graters)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 package of turkey bacon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 tbl butter (softened)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 cup heavy cream</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/4 cup milk</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/2 cup non fat powdered milk</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp baking powder</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp baking soda</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp lemon juice</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Directions: </span></div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> You'll need to start out by preheating your oven to 200 degrees and set your package of bacon out for 15-20 minutes to defrost (if it was frozen) </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Lay your pieces of bacon out on a rack over a cookie sheet or a makeshift grease catcher made of tin foil and put them in the oven for 3 hours (I did this the night before and kept the bacon in a bag in the fridge until I was ready to use it)</span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Grate your cheese and separate it into two bowls </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Smash your bacon into little bits, either cut it or crumple it, it's really up to how hard you want to work here </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mix the bacon pieces with one of the bowls of cheese and set it aside </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In the other bowl add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and dry milk. Then mix it all up </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Zap your butter in the microwave for a few seconds so that it is soft and add it in, make sure you've got it all mixed in before moving on to the next step </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Measure out your heavy cream and add the lemon juice to it, stir them together and let them sit for ten minutes at room temp. </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> After the cream is done sitting add it and the milk in, it will take some strength to get this all mixed, I wish I had used my mixer. Luckily I could just ask Tim to do it instead. </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Get out you cupcake tins, and put the cupcake liners in it, then use a spoon or a cookie baller to separate out small portions of the dough into each of the cups. </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Squish the dough into the cups so it covers the bottom of each one </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Get your cheese/bacon bowl back and add a spoonful to each biscuit, then add more dough (I found it was easiest to roll out ball with my hands then squish it flat before placing it in the tins) Then top with more cheese/bacon </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Bake for 10-12 minutes and then enjoy </span></li>
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Completely off topic but do any of you have any genius teething tips? Nikolai is miserable, we've got the ice teethers and baby oragel for when he gets really bad (but I'd like to avoid using it as much as possible) and I guess I'm searching in vain for a magical cure all. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like a really nice yummy cake, right?</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The same sister-in-law I tried making <a href="http://littlefrostedadventures.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-dont-like-almonds-why-did-i-think-id.html">almond milk</a> for I'm trying to learn to bake gluten-free for. I've read all about it and I've purchased several non-wheat flours and xanthan and guar gums and starches and all sorts of gluten-free baking stuff. I've got a list of recipes to try out. For some reason though, running short on time tonight I decided that it would be a great time to write my own recipe. This was not the best idea I've ever had.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Microwave cakes are pretty darn delicious, and so simple, I figured "Ooooh, wouldn't it be nice if I came up with a gluten-free microwave cake?" And sure, it's a nice idea, but this feeble attempt failed greatly. It might look like cake, it might even smell like cake, but it tastes like I imagine newspaper would.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not that you should repeat my mistake, but here is what I did</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ingredients:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 tbl cocoa powder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 tbl sorghum flour </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 tsp potato starch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/4 tsp baking soda</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 tbl powdered sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 egg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 tbl butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1-2 tbl chocolate chips</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 tsp vanilla</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Directions:</div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> I used my 2-cup liquid measure, and mixed together all the dry ingredients. If this were a tasty recipe you'd want to make sure they're well combined so that the starch and baking soda can make sure it rises well and to do that they need to be evenly distributed. This rose really well and made a very pretty looking cake...so I know I've got that part down. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Cut the butter up into as small of pieces as you can and add it along with the egg and vanilla</li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Use a fork and mix it for 1 minute, beating it as much as you can, to make sure it is mixed up really well </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li>Then I put it in the microwave on high for 2 minutes, but it was clearly done before 1.5 minutes. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> And now it's finished, don't eat, and please throw away </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is only attempt one, and I'm sorry that all I've got for you tonight is a really gross gluten-free cake. At least my pictures turned out pretty well. </div></ol><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Do any of you bake gluten-free? Do you have any suggestions for successful baked goods? I'd love to hear what you have to say!</div><div style="text-align: left;">And did you see? I have a <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Littlefrosted">twittery thing </a>now! Follow me and stuff.</div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSU2NZRQDi1kd-z0DrZ0DTO8TPxjVu9BpIMEO6GdMb2xQOMfQvUTks7vQmYfmxyOPMNs2l6Mxp0xo4NN64B-KTlqyyzOn8RtySRVahRIG4wCuW-TwIymmWSoNA5cY0wPX2zPgMqL7Rco/s1600/DSCN1686.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSU2NZRQDi1kd-z0DrZ0DTO8TPxjVu9BpIMEO6GdMb2xQOMfQvUTks7vQmYfmxyOPMNs2l6Mxp0xo4NN64B-KTlqyyzOn8RtySRVahRIG4wCuW-TwIymmWSoNA5cY0wPX2zPgMqL7Rco/s320/DSCN1686.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunsiGQAjqsBM_1HypJEMSFyjw0pkwYs9p8eS1dRbYlpN2tU_z_OVxMmF8u2RwbOw2nJSygya33pNKNsXUZGcalNsTpFqpZR-q1obzpJDn6AcmnkvbJ5aO0vREQYZK8zXXmQxrOZbRDJg/s1600/DSCN1688.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunsiGQAjqsBM_1HypJEMSFyjw0pkwYs9p8eS1dRbYlpN2tU_z_OVxMmF8u2RwbOw2nJSygya33pNKNsXUZGcalNsTpFqpZR-q1obzpJDn6AcmnkvbJ5aO0vREQYZK8zXXmQxrOZbRDJg/s320/DSCN1688.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX7SvNuKaHBf_Y8P2McHnxm-SKDnB-WKvw8Dy9uRCNcJUZ2vCuzWd_hnbrLbo8Bozn16tE3-HQYcChUmXcad7DJ4YHXt2IO-fKORa7UKbRb3iQp3dohaOWXoK1ZWhXC-1SvkwcxcpM_s/s1600/DSCN1689.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfX7SvNuKaHBf_Y8P2McHnxm-SKDnB-WKvw8Dy9uRCNcJUZ2vCuzWd_hnbrLbo8Bozn16tE3-HQYcChUmXcad7DJ4YHXt2IO-fKORa7UKbRb3iQp3dohaOWXoK1ZWhXC-1SvkwcxcpM_s/s320/DSCN1689.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjgD0DW0ys43psG1Yc3lJmYqkmtNycSz66n6z3EpqUFrv3DOS0hi0OazUD4WCi5d_tc0qD3bfsZpoZIX65Jm1oXDqyTMDlUdX4gdEMbCztm_3nHQ2MBD4o7CCuX4ZILo4lWrZ0jdnV8A/s1600/DSCN1690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjgD0DW0ys43psG1Yc3lJmYqkmtNycSz66n6z3EpqUFrv3DOS0hi0OazUD4WCi5d_tc0qD3bfsZpoZIX65Jm1oXDqyTMDlUdX4gdEMbCztm_3nHQ2MBD4o7CCuX4ZILo4lWrZ0jdnV8A/s320/DSCN1690.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsLf4BpZv2dBRNVUlX0vcAaHCs14RFdnjUFn_rPKJZkCL7nxtBOyHL3kLIoOLww4P5e_sloV2Xt57nvym3yxrsTMGlqKCcRxu5BO9COX2igS1N3PEfQOVACxOASkkxO5T0ir9MHcX3xE/s1600/DSCN1691.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsLf4BpZv2dBRNVUlX0vcAaHCs14RFdnjUFn_rPKJZkCL7nxtBOyHL3kLIoOLww4P5e_sloV2Xt57nvym3yxrsTMGlqKCcRxu5BO9COX2igS1N3PEfQOVACxOASkkxO5T0ir9MHcX3xE/s320/DSCN1691.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It really rose well, more than doubled in volume</td></tr>
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This kid throws caution to the wind and is determined to explore... I should stock up on bandaids before he starts crawling.<br />
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To help make up for the lack of a new post I've added a recipe index on the side bar!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Todays kitchen extravaganza yielded not so gorgeous results, so lets start this off with a picture of my kiddo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My sister in law likes almond milk, I like my sister in law, so obviously by the transitive property, I like almond milk... Right? No, not at all. Being the crazy lets-try-making-everything-on-our-own-instead-of-buying-it-from-a-store person I am I decided that making almond milk would be a fantastic idea, and it would be healthy and I could surprise my sister in law and hooray hooray it will be so great. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had been reading something, not sure what, when I came across <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Milk-an-Almond-fresh-homemade-almond-milk/">this tutorial</a> on how to make almond milk...and this is basically how it works:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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1. Get some almonds (non roasted, plain, boring almonds) and put them in a container. Fill that container with water and stuff it in the fridge over night, or just a few hours, or something) I left mine in over night.<br />
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2. They'll get all puffed up and expand and turn the water sort of murky.<br />
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3. Dump out the old water, put some almonds in a blending device of your choice, add some new clean water...<br />
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4. And blend, blend, blend. Until almond water stuff is squishing out of the blending device and covering your counters in almond juice. But, really, just blend until the almonds are tiny pieces and your liquid is all whiteish.<br />
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6. I didn't get a picture of the next step because Nikolai was trying to eat my camera and I was covered in almond liquid and my floor was covered in accidentally spilled almonds...But, you've got to strain all the almond chunks out of your almond milk so it isn't even more gross ( no offense to almond fans ) than it already is...Then you can add some vanilla and sugar to make it better, but in my opinion that really didn't help...<br />
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7. I do have all of this almond meal to do something with now though.... Does any one have any favorite recipes or suggestions for what I should do with this stuff?Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-67941361287531377782011-01-03T17:39:00.000-08:002011-01-03T17:39:02.595-08:00Freezer biscuits of the whole wheat variety<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnckHCnjvHNhdbZsnZ1ZVdlWY4usEn6e5yUm973cJYo59RyxWSrNXJ5SISxiWODwbU7trMELhE1kXoyBBu96vPQS0hnu90FycnRQWMCVP5PW6vfpIPTqs0M6oShXJ5RfCqFEXdNQqtKE/s1600/DSCN1170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnckHCnjvHNhdbZsnZ1ZVdlWY4usEn6e5yUm973cJYo59RyxWSrNXJ5SISxiWODwbU7trMELhE1kXoyBBu96vPQS0hnu90FycnRQWMCVP5PW6vfpIPTqs0M6oShXJ5RfCqFEXdNQqtKE/s640/DSCN1170.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These biscuits are still a work in progress, but what we have here has become a favorite of my husband, so I figure I'll share it with you. (Also, it is really cold and I don't want to spend any more time in my kitchen)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bulk section at Waremart is one of my favorite places, occasionally they'll have a strange new ingredient for me to try out. This time it was whole wheat pastry flour, and these biscuits were my unfortunate test subject. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have not done too much baking with whole wheat, I have nothing against it aside from it's texture, but having those poky little not quite ground into powder bits is really not something I enjoy... So, once I bought the flour and brought it home and examined it and realized that it still had the same texture I was quite disappointed. For some reason I assumed that it would be more finely ground since it was pastry flour. (But really it just has a higher protein content)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to use it anyway, the biscuits turned out with very good flavor, but slightly dry, and I still don't enjoy the texture, but dipped in gravy they were good. Tim loves them, but he'd probably live off of whole wheat if he could get away with it. I will be trying again in the future to get a less gainy texture...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Recipe:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4 cups whole wheat pastry flour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5 tsp baking powder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 tsp baking soda</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 stick butter softened</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 egg (beaten)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 1/2 cups milk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Extra butter for the tops of the biscuits (optional)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Directions: </div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Preheat oven to 425° F if you're going to bake them right away </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Add in the butter and mix until crumbly </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Mix in the beaten egg and the milk </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Use a large cookie baller to section out balls of dough them squish them down to 1/2 inch thick with your fingers or the bottom of a glass </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Spread a tiny bit of extra butter on the top of each biscuit before freezing or baking </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> If freezing stick them, still on the cookie sheet, into the freezer for 2-3 hours then transfer them to an air tight container (a bag, tupperware, whatever) and use in 2 months </li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Do you have any tips for baking with whole wheat flours and not getting that gritty texture? If you do, or if you've got any other suggestions comment! I'd love to hear from you.</div></ol>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-59289294967939928462011-01-01T00:01:00.000-08:002011-01-01T16:42:51.421-08:00Apple-cider-sicles and resolutions.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5H74Zg-Evj6nabNaQYRgHhmdCCE5mQCzqryC_f233i-F6g8Ew0wYSKPX5DR0wkr2OjXns94sRh_0kyVDtKNCi8F0VOGgGALaGx3gIUZNx4qnw3IxUtiQ9cTe9hpQSi2KEPQovJupoOQ/s1600/DSCN1597.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX5H74Zg-Evj6nabNaQYRgHhmdCCE5mQCzqryC_f233i-F6g8Ew0wYSKPX5DR0wkr2OjXns94sRh_0kyVDtKNCi8F0VOGgGALaGx3gIUZNx4qnw3IxUtiQ9cTe9hpQSi2KEPQovJupoOQ/s400/DSCN1597.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">As the new year starts off I'm actually going to have a resolution, for the most part I have never had resolutions... I always thought they were sort of ridiculous, why wait until the new year starts to change your life, seems like you're already trying to put it off.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Vanilla ice cream (or any ice cream of your choice)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Popsicle maker thing</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">What I did....(not going to classify this as a recipe seeing as how it turned out</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Tim ordered me the popsicle mold </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">because he is nice<br />
(sometimes)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I squished some ice cream into a layer on top </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">of some parchment paper on a cookie sheet</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I folded that ice cream up to make it more </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I stuck sticks in it after that</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Squished some more ice cream on top of that,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"> then froze it for another half an hour</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I filled the excess space with apple cider<br />
(I also had a few extra spaces which I filled</span><br />
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then stuck them in the fridge overnight</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Tim and I stayed up to welcome in the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"> terrified me; I thought he'd gone and broken it.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">The results were sticks that came out without</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"> out it tasted great though... So, I've just got</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"> to figure out how to remove them...</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Happy New Year! I look forward to sharing my food related adventures the next few months, I'm planning on a different challenge or theme each month, and I'd love to hear your ideas!</span>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-22344228682630704882010-12-26T17:25:00.000-08:002010-12-26T17:25:00.090-08:00Make your own cocoa mix!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vnxqWBbhaOnv85B0FV3pc9UFlLPZQIBg8YrMissOXgHVmhJ-eww3KkTR77bcGeH4BGiniKDKa-V4VOXVXLy2bseVXYxB9U5GvkLWgQQPNVb4wvd2LWqiUIMC-zsgmQB0GWdBTLglTPU/s1600/DSCN0919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vnxqWBbhaOnv85B0FV3pc9UFlLPZQIBg8YrMissOXgHVmhJ-eww3KkTR77bcGeH4BGiniKDKa-V4VOXVXLy2bseVXYxB9U5GvkLWgQQPNVb4wvd2LWqiUIMC-zsgmQB0GWdBTLglTPU/s400/DSCN0919.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <a href="http://littlefrostedadventures.blogspot.com/2010/12/attempts-at-cookie-architecture.html">mini ginger bread houses for the edge of your cup</a> needed some cocoa mix to accompany them as gifts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is super super easy, I used <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1399581/make_your_own_instant_hot_cocoa_mix.html?cat=22">this recipe</a> minus the white chocolate chips</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ingredients:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 cups nonfat dry milk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 cups powdered sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 1/2 cups baking cocoa powder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/4 tsp salt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Directions:</div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> I started by blending the nonfat dry milk so that it was a fine powder </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Then I added the other ingredients to the blender and attempted to blend them </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> This didn't go so well, so with the lid held on firmly I shook the blender until they were all mixed up </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> I portioned it into baggies and gave it away with the ginger bread houses </li>
</ol>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-63719835450421460242010-12-26T17:17:00.000-08:002010-12-26T17:26:48.680-08:00Attempts at cookie architecture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_1783962707"></span><span id="goog_1783962708"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RkfavEf7kU-9nhwmtvZAibOrGgfzAQT4ONjqahh_GpcZliAL_JeFZEFn32S71dJ-WWOSWfIHBgAo5fWYdnHe3tsLCWby8L104bPyeeHRGVyDMy1yfQAQUwvXaMVTqRzqn7tlVyIJ4k0/s1600/DSCN0906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RkfavEf7kU-9nhwmtvZAibOrGgfzAQT4ONjqahh_GpcZliAL_JeFZEFn32S71dJ-WWOSWfIHBgAo5fWYdnHe3tsLCWby8L104bPyeeHRGVyDMy1yfQAQUwvXaMVTqRzqn7tlVyIJ4k0/s400/DSCN0906.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gingerbread houses have always been a love of mine, but I've always cheated when making them... using frosting to glue pieces of graham crackers to milk cartons, getting prebaked kits.... this year I decided I wanted to make these<a href="http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2009/12/18/a-gingerbread-house-that-perches-on-the-rim-of-your-mug/"> mini ginger bread houses</a> for setting on the edge of a mug from <a href="http://www.notmartha.org/">Not Martha</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I recieved a lovely ginger bread mix from a friend and wanted to use that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was very sticky and hard to cut the pieces out...</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And here are the unbaked ginger bread village ruins</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwiwz08EzDOw6-MU4JZBpauuQlYh7Ap2afx_pIffQMf5vJsGci5IyU_0yziyKa44ONWJvb6WfBieJjJkTScKinVmrFkHJ7eqa4VubjfPLHvSUrWsQEu1P-K9XVoArEpIyGNsERUdPRTo/s1600/DSCN0900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwiwz08EzDOw6-MU4JZBpauuQlYh7Ap2afx_pIffQMf5vJsGci5IyU_0yziyKa44ONWJvb6WfBieJjJkTScKinVmrFkHJ7eqa4VubjfPLHvSUrWsQEu1P-K9XVoArEpIyGNsERUdPRTo/s320/DSCN0900.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I baked the pieces from the mix they all rose and expanded and broke.....but they were very delicious. Since all the pieces were the wrong size and most of them were eaten I needed to make more dough, I decided to use to use a recipe my grandmother had cut from the newspaper for me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20101215/LIFE/12150388/1059/COMMUNITIES">The gingerbread recipe from the whitehouse</a> makes a ton, and I mean a TON of dough... 50 4x4 cookies.. thats 16 square inches a cookie, 800 square inches total.... thats a lot...Did I use it all? No...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is my version of their recipe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Recipe:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 sticks softened butter<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>2 cups dark brown sugar<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>2 eggs<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>1 cup molasses<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>7 cups all-purpose flour<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>1 teaspoon (instead of 1/4) ground ginger, cinnamon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/2 teaspoon (instead of 1/4) baking powder, salt<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="pp"></span>1/2 teaspoon (instead if 1) baking soda<span class="aa"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(and I completely left out Zest of 1 lemon, 1 orange)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Directions: </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beat together the eggs, sugar, butter, and molasses </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add in the ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Make sure they're mixed in evenly </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add in the flour in several parts, dumb in a cup or two, mix mix mix mix until it's in, then add some more. Scrape the sides of the bowl a lot...</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Next roll it out between two sheets of parchment paper a few scoops at a time while it is still warm and refridgerate the rolled out sheets until you're ready to use them (I'd say at least 20 minutes and they'll be fine to use) </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Preheat your oven to 350 ° F</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Cut out your shapes/pieces whatever, and bake for 10-12 minutes.</span></li>
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You see how much it makes?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This dough was soo much easier to cut the pieces out of</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I covered the roof pieces in sugar before I baked them so they could have a snowy look to them</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To ice them I used the <a href="http://www.joyofbaking.com/RoyalIcing.html">royal icing recipe</a> from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1164507044"></span>Joy of baking<span id="goog_1164507045"></span></a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ingredients: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><span class="bod"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 egg whites</span></span><br />
<span class="bod"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 teaspoons lemon juice</span></span><br />
<span class="bod"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 cups powdered sugar</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Beat everything together in bowl </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Transfer quickly to a piping bag </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Ice things, the gingerbread houses in particular </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> let dry </span></li>
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</span>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-34580141187258392172010-12-22T17:48:00.000-08:002010-12-22T17:48:19.036-08:00Muddy buddies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgP44-DU0RMLQWdJDTkDs5GorvJlhdOc55x6MvjArZ4P9waDpodv3KJtxUKbCKlFbPmUbVGMDjCTAEjSQD5tpm3nCElbbYOHHydfYNN9Nol9LiNO5IKyZGJmrhnuBpzoW_Mgdt6CN3t8/s1600/DSCN0928.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgP44-DU0RMLQWdJDTkDs5GorvJlhdOc55x6MvjArZ4P9waDpodv3KJtxUKbCKlFbPmUbVGMDjCTAEjSQD5tpm3nCElbbYOHHydfYNN9Nol9LiNO5IKyZGJmrhnuBpzoW_Mgdt6CN3t8/s400/DSCN0928.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These muddy buddies were so much fun to make, which is why I have to start this post with the obnoxious picture of Tim shaking them up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was introduced to these last year, when my husband found them at waremart and immediately bought several bags, I had never heard of them before. One of our friends offered to make some, but we were impatient, we needed to eat them now. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I got the recipe from <a href="http://www.chex.com/recipes/RecipeView.aspx?RecipeId=45860&CategoryId=447">chex</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Directions:</span></div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a quart sized bowl microwave chocolate, peanutbutter, and butter on high (for 20 seconds at a time stiring between each microwaving to prevent burning) until smooth </span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add in the vanilla (or not) and mix it up some more</span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dump that mixture on to the chex and stir until it is evenly (ish) covered (and don't cringe when you smash all of the chex....)</span></li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here is my husband shaking it up:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/morallyobjected/shaking.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/morallyobjected/shaking.gif" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Jessicalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06964096152186058072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708551483373471803.post-60355013161709034032010-12-22T17:47:00.000-08:002010-12-22T17:47:44.655-08:00Stained Glass cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtc_hvFXi4bW42oi7XM472bFPYGPwmCJ46PbPrcvWO7Jk04BJnxYfcqaNoE3o6i2_JKnboU6r0e6BARG_ypTrM5l5-HfZkbdelvIbXohEspbnqtdGk76-V6VJm8w-TBVdxrzEzsqToby8/s1600/DSCN0868.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtc_hvFXi4bW42oi7XM472bFPYGPwmCJ46PbPrcvWO7Jk04BJnxYfcqaNoE3o6i2_JKnboU6r0e6BARG_ypTrM5l5-HfZkbdelvIbXohEspbnqtdGk76-V6VJm8w-TBVdxrzEzsqToby8/s400/DSCN0868.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Stained glass cookies! When I started using parchment paper to bake things on to keep them from sticking I was amazed at how well it worked, and I started to wonder if I could actually make some of the amazing christmas cookies I always see in the baking magazines that look ridiculously complicated. I had always assumed that baking stained glass cookies would be awful, that the candy would stick to whatever it was baked on and it would all shatter when you tried to pry it off. I occasionally wondered if the cookies in the pictures were faked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These didn't turn out perfectly, but I'm surprised by the quality my results. Many errors and complications more related to human mistake than the recipe got in the way. Though I read in many different places that these are more decorative than edible, I strived for eat-ability, that was probably error 1, error 2 was having my very very energetic little brother help, and error 3 was apparently confusing candy choice. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, these are great if, 1 you don't expect them to be easy to eat and perhaps only use them for decorative purposes or quieting loud people with sticky candy, 2 you don't give a 6 year old a hammer and tell him to smash candy, and 3 you use candy that people expect to find in the middle of christmas cookies, peppermint perhaps? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I started out with <a href="http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/stained_glass_cookies/">this recipe</a> but also drew inspiration from <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/sugar-cookies-recipe/index.html">this one</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Recipe:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 1/2 cups flour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 cup white sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 cup brown sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 tsp vanilla</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 egg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/4 cup heavy cream</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/4 tsp salt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3/4 tsp baking powder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">+ 30 ish hard candies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Directions:</div><ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Beat together the sugars, vanilla, egg, and heavy cream on high for about a minute. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Add in the salt, and baking powder and mix it in thoroughly before adding in the flour </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> You can either separate the dough into sections, roll it out 1/4 - 1/8 inch thick and then refridgerate it before taking cookies cutters to it, or roll it into a log, refridgerate it and then cut shapes out of the cookies cut from the log. </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> Either way, refrigerate it for at least two hours before cutting </li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><li> While it is cooling, unwrap the candies and put them in a ziplock bag, wrap the bag in a towel and smash those candies with a rolling pin, or a hammer, or a mallet, or really any blunt object suitable for smashing things </li>
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Molasses cookies! I haven't baked much with molasses, but when I was walking through the store and saw the gorgeous glass bottles of it I figured I needed to make some molasses cookies. Making these was certainly an experience, while I was mixing them there was this smell and I couldn't figure out if it was a spice or what, but I hated it. Smelled just like pumpkin puree to me, and it was driving me crazy, I figured the cookies would be atrocious. I was planning later trials and examining the spices and all sorts of things so I could figure out what reeked, then I finished the cookies. The smell diminished and eventually vanished after they were all done, and I got up the nerve to try one of the cookies. These were so moist and had a very rich flavor, very delicious.<br />
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When I was working on the recipe I wanted to make sure there was lots of molasses so that the taste was really bold, little did I know that molasses would be one of my least favorite scents of all time (right up there with pomagranates and sulphur). I don't know how the rest of you feel about molasses, but after the cookies cool down they taste fantastic and smell dissipates. (Even my grandfather liked them and he is sort of picky)<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
1 stick butter (softened)<br />
1/4 cup heavy cream<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1 egg<br />
1/2 cup molasses<br />
2 1/4 cups flour<br />
1/4 cup cocoa<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1/2 tsp ground cloves<br />
1/2 tsp ground ginger<br />
1/2 tsp nutmeg<br />
1 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/2 tsp baking powder<br />
1/2 tsp baking soda<br />
+1/2 cup sugar for coating the cookies<br />
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Directions:<br />
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<li> Beat the butter, heavy cream, 1 cup sugar and egg together until slightly fluffy </li>
<li> Add in the molasses and coco and continue mixing (it will get this really awful looking texture, thats what it is supposed to do) </li>
<li> Now is time for your spices and baking powder & soda (I don't like sifting it all together with the flour, so I just add it before and beat it in before the flour is added)</li>
<li> Lastly the flour is mixed in. </li>
<li> You'll need to chill the dough for while, I kept it in over night because I was tired and Nikolai was tired of baking, but an hour or two should work out just fine </li>
<li> Once the dough is cold and firm you can preheat your oven to 375° F </li>
<li> I used a 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie baller to make balls of dough then rolled them in sugar </li>
<li> Place the cookies 2 or more inches apart on the cookie sheet and then use the bottom of a glass to squish them down a bit, I dipped the glass in sugar before pressing each cookie, it seemed to keep everything from sticking </li>
<li> Bake for 8-10 minutes </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I waited for days in anticipation of taking this picture,<br />
then tormented Tim because I needed his help to take it.<br />
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While I'm planning out what will be made on my baking sprees I try to keep Tim in mind, because more frequently than not he is doomed to be my tester. When we were in high school there was a cookie stand at lunch that sold chocolate reeses pieces cookies and he would always buy some, so I figured it would be fun to attempt to recreate them.<br />
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Now as far as my recipes go, this was experimental as they come. I haven't made many chocolate cookies, so I was shooting in the dark. Luckily, they turned out wonderfully after a few alterations. They were thoroughly enjoyed at our birth class reunion, our friends (<a href="http://www.bryanruppphotographyblog.com/">two of which are fantastic photographers</a>) gave glowing reviews.<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
1/3 cup butter (softened)<br />
1/2 cup cocoa<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup brown sugar<br />
1 1/2 cup flour<br />
1/4 cup whipping cream<br />
1 egg<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
1/2 tsp baking powder<br />
1/2 tsp baking soda<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
3 tbl peanutbutter<br />
1 cup reeses pieces (more or less to your taste of course)<br />
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Directions: <br />
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<li> Preheat oven to 350 </li>
<li> Start by creaming together butter, egg, sugars, cocoa, peanutbutter, and whipping cream</li>
<li> Add in the vanilla, salt, baking powder & soda, mix thoroughly</li>
<li> Work in the flour next, it took a few times scraping the edges of the bowl and restarting the mixer to get it all incorporated </li>
<li> Next come the reeses pieces, mixing them in with a mixer is very loud...</li>
<li> I used a 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie baller to separate out balls of dough, after that you'll need to smush them down with a fork before baking. (if you forget do it right after you take them out of the oven and it will work just as well) </li>
<li> Bake for 8-10 minutes, they come out of sort of puffy but will settle down while cooling. </li>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are some things I've always been slightly apprehensive about making, shortbread, french fries, pie crust, cake from scratch... Growing up I heard lots of horror stories about 'don't even try to make such and such from scratch it is so difficult, it's worth the extra money to just buy it pre-made and it will always taste better that way too', so it took me quite a while to start stepping out of my comfort zone, which is probably why the first post I ever did involved cake mix. Shortbread was one of those things people had only told me way awful to make, so going into this I was pretty nervous. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My husbands parents bring us back macademia nut shortbread from Hawai'i every time they visit, and it is one of the most heavenly treats I've ever tasted, light and crumbly, dipped in milky chocolate. Our most recent box was scarfed down by said husband while I was trying to savor it so we could enjoy it for a few weeks.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since all that shortbread was gone I decided I needed to learn how to make it so I could have it whenever I wanted. It would be worth any strife and misery I might have to traverse. Step one towards that short bread though was learning how to make shortbread at all, and a certain father in law who love's shortbread had a birthday coming up so I had to make some.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make 27-30 small cookies</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ingredients:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 1/2 cups flour</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/2 cup rice flour</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/4 tsp salt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 cup butter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/2 cup powdered sugar</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp vanilla</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Directions:</span></div><ol><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Beat butter on high until fluffy </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Add in sugar and beat on high for 2 minutes </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Beat in the vanilla and salt </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Add in the flour 1/2 cup at a time mixing it throughly before adding more </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Empty dough onto a large sheet of parchment paper and form into a 1 1/2 - 2 inch wide log </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Wrap it tightly in the parchment paper and stick in the fridge for at least an hour </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Preheat oven to 350<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b>° </b>F </span></span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Take out your dough, unwrap it and cut it into 1/8 - 1/4 inch rounds </span></li>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></div><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Lay the rounds out on a cookie sheet lined with parchment (they don't spread much so they can be fairly close together)</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">While you shape it with your hands it will </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">warm up and become easier to work with</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Slicing it was sooo easy</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I didn't use the ends of my dough log because they</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">weren't shaped very well</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">My cookies turned out perfectly.. until</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">For some mysterious reason I did a hideous job </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">coating them with slightly burnt chocolate...</span></td></tr>
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Everyone loves to recycle! Right?<br />
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I do, and I'm also really cheap, so when I'm giving cookies as gifts I hate to buy things to put them in, or loan out my tupperware ish tubs because they tend to never come back, so, I've started repurposing empty cereal boxes into convenient cookie boxes. (Though you could really put anything in them)<br />
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You'll need:<br />
A glue stick<br />
Two cereal boxes of the same size<br />
Tape<br />
Scissors<br />
Wrapping paper<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Start by cutting the front or back panel off of a box</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cut the flap off of the panel about 1 inch below the fold</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You're going to put the top of the box back together, tape it, then add the cut off piece folded over the edge and tape it down.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Repeat with the other box, allowing some extra room at the top by making a new fold at the flaps 1/8 of an inch away form the previous one.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">To cover the boxes you'll want to cover the back with glue and set down in the middle of a piece of wrapping paper big enough to go up the sides and fold over all the edges</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bring the box up on to its side and cut from the edge of the paper perpendicular to the edge of the box so that the paper will fit the length of the box</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Do the same thing along all four sides.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then at each corner cut from the end of each cut to the one next to it across the corner</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Next you're going to do some tricky folding.. pictures will describe it better than words I think</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You might find it helpful to draw this line to help you figure out where your fold will be </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Glue up the short sides </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fold in and then make a crease so you can pull the next side up....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>I tend to feel really guilty after baking because of the amount of butter that seems to be required for most anything tasty. Because of this I started wondering what I could do to limit the butter in my recipes, I had been reading through all sorts of cooking/baking/etc articles and blogs working on ideas for future posts and I came across <span id="goog_1241186396"></span>one<span id="goog_1241186397"></span> that was about <a href="http://www.portlandfoodanddrink.com/2009/03/making-butter-and-memories/">making your own butter</a> (you can expect a future post). You basically start with cream and mix it forever and hooray you've got butter. I use heavy cream when I make frosting so I had some in the fridge and decided to try it with the <a href="http://littlefrostedadventures.blogspot.com/2010/12/snickerdoodles.html">snickerdoodles</a> I made last week. It worked out great! The cookies were delicious and extra rich, so I tried again with the peanut butter cookies. These turned out to be the best peanut butter cookies I've ever had. I substitute out half the butter and replace it with half that amount of heavy cream ( 1 cup of butter becomes 1/2 cup butter and 1/4 cup heavy cream). Now, I know these won't be significantly less fatty, if at all, but the deliciousness more than makes up for it.<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
2 cups Flour<br />
1 stick butter (1/2 c)<br />
1/4 cup heavy cream<br />
1 cup peanut butter (I tried with both the natural kind and the processed kind, both work, but the natural kind is 10x better)<br />
1 egg<br />
1/2 cup white sugar<br />
1/2 cup brown sugar<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1 tsp baking soda<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
1/2 tsp vanilla<br />
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Directions:<br />
<ol><li>Preheat oven to 375</li>
<li>Cut your butter into small pats and put it in your mixing bowl with the sugars,egg,and vanilla</li>
<li>In a seperate container microwave your peanut butter for 15 seconds, then mix it up with a fork, (remove the fork of course) and microwave again, repeating until it is all warmed</li>
<li>Add the peanut butter to your mixing bowl and beat on high for 2 minutes.</li>
<li>Now switch to a dough hook or mix by hand and add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.</li>
<li>Once the dough has formed, use a cookie baller or two spoons to separate out inch wide balls and plop them on to your parchment lined cookie sheet.</li>
<li> Use a wetted fork to press crisscrosses into the top before baking for 8-10 minutes</li>
<li>They'll come out a little puffy, but if you let them cool for a few minutes they'll settle.</li>
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Everyone loved these, grandmothers, candle party guests, tutors, husbands, even picky little brothers, very popular cookies.<br />
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