My husband has this neat little trick whenever he wants to tell me something unpleasant or something I will not be in favor of. He likes to email me from work so that I have about 7 hours to chill out before he gets home. He knows that my annoyance will have subsided and all he will be left with is a rolling of the eyes and a stern shaking of my pointer finger(yes, pointer... not middle :P) at him. So a couple weeks ago I get an email telling me that he bought a Nintendo Wii System. I had told him that if the Wii every came out with a hockey game then we could buy one...apparently he thought I meant air hockey. Since there was no ice hockey game for me to play he tried to bribe me with the next best thing, a game called Cooking Mama. For those unfamiliar with the Wii(like my mother), it is a video game system that is interactive....when you bowl, you actually have to make the motion like you are bowling or it wont work. Anyway, so in Cooking Mama you have to make dishes(you chop, … [Read more...]
Not being fresh….
I used to be so good. I used to participate in all the food blogging events from SHF to HHDD. But something along the way happened. Life I suppose. And I am so out of the loop that I couldn't tell you what things were going on...except one. ..La Festa Al Fresco. Co-hosted by two of my close food blogging buddies, Lis of La Mia Cucina and Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice. It would be in true bad form for me to miss out. I figured I would get going on it early(we have until September 3rd...but I didn't want to press my luck lately). It's quite simple really, prepare a dish(from appetizer to dessert doesn't matter) using a fresh, seasonal ingredient(preferably from your region). I however, did not follow directions very well. For my seasonal ingredient I chose dried cherries. Now those are not fresh I know but I really wanted some bread pudding and I didn't want real cherries, I wanted dried(they were fresh at one time). Cherries are at the end of their season here in the Pacific … [Read more...]
Liqueured Up…
Boy if some days you just need a stiff drink. Well I have needed one for the last 10 days. One of these days I will break down and give you all the 411 but for now let us just say that there is much stress in my life. I being not that much of a home drinker, have no real hard alcohol at home, just liqueur used for baking. Grand Marnier shots anymore(ew)? So needless to say the only liquor I was having was going into a baked good. These brownies can be used with any type of liqueur you would like. I chose Kahlua. This recipe makes a huge batch as I originally made it for a school picnic(for teachers not students). This time around I made a half batch and had to bake them longer since I used a thicker pan. That's it, that is all you are getting, just a drive by post. Liqueured Brownies (serves 24-36...a ton of brownies) 1 cup cocoa powder 1 cup plus 2 TBSP unsalted butter 5 large eggs 1 ½ tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cups sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar 1/3 cup Kahlua ½ cup … [Read more...]
Tales of 7th Grade Home EC Class….
In 7th grade I took Home Economics. The old school way was half a year was sewing(I still can not sew on a button) and the other half was cooking. We had to fly solo in sewing class(which was taught by the math teacher...again, perhaps why I can't even sew on a button). But in cooking class we had a partner. Little did I know that my partner D and I would be partners in class all the way through our undergrad degrees. Oddly enough only two of those times we selected each other. The other 9 times were random. Yes, I had the same cooking partner and lab partner 11 times. D was not someone I would have chosen. For starters, D is a guy. He took Home EC to scam on chics, and well, I was so not someone he wanted to scam on. So we didn't start off the best. We so did not get along in Home EC. He never paid attention and I ended up doing all the cooking. Luckily by the time we got to high school, that all changed. We learned to draw on each others strengths to get each other through the … [Read more...]
