I will admit that I have always been one of those think outside of the box people. People have even accused me of not knowing where the box is some days. ;) I see the world a little different at times, and I know I see food a little different. My mother once said to me, "I add some cranberries to pumpkin bread and think I am being creative. But you take it to a whole other level". And I must, because people do ask me all the time how I come up with my ideas. Um, I just do. It's how my brain thinks. And it usually is thinking how to make something have more calories. ;) When Lynn left my house on Friday I had 24 mini cinnamon cupcake staring at me unfrosted. The original cupcakes, the one in the book, had a sour cream chocolate frosting. That sounded good but for some reason oatmeal raisin popped into my head. Now most people would have made oatmeal raisin cupcakes and made cinnamon frosting. I did the other way around. I didn't want chunks of oatmeal in my frosting so I ran it … [Read more...]
Fine, I didn’t want to go anyway….
Well that's a lie. But it's the lie I am telling myself. If you are not a food blogger than you are probably asking what don't I want to go to anyway. BlogHer Food. This weekend, hundreds of food bloggers are in San Fransisco, and I, I am not. :( But enough about those people, I had a little food get together on my own...well, not on my own, with another food blogger. And not just any food blogger, the lovely Cookie Baker Lynn. We decided awhile back we would do a little baking together. One time at my house and one time at Lynn's. Our version of baking from my home to yours...though no Dorie showed up. ;) Though that would have been nice. Lynn and I meet from time to time for lunch or tea, etc. The last time we did this, we stopped into a Dutch bakery. I tried these cookies called Jon Hail's (which I will post later). We decided we would make those and whatever else we could come up with. I had just gotten a couple of cookbooks, one which was Baking Kids Love. I don't have … [Read more...]
You got beat by a girl…
So it's football time (FYI, just October 1st starts the REAL sport of hockey :P ). A couple of years ago my friend E's husband was looking for one last spot in his college football pool (psa: gambling is wrong, don't do it ;) ). She sent around an email asking if any of our husbands would want to do it. I said that mine did not, but that I would want to do it. She said sure. So off the season went. Now I do know somethings about college football, but truth be told, if I am not sure about the teams, I pull a total chick move and base my pick on their mascot. Sometimes I do this even when I know the teams. Let's take Seattle's own Washington Huskies vs the Oregon Ducks. You are probably saying no brainer and would pick the Huskies. I pick the Ducks. If you are saying why surely a dog could take a duck. If you are asking why, you clearly have never been attacked by a duck. And I have. Duck wins. So in using this fool proof system, I won that year. When I met up with them to claim my … [Read more...]
