Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Our Own Cake Boss

My daughter loves watching the CAKE BOSS show.


He is SO talented.
He makes works of art like this...

...and these. Amazing.



One day my daughter got inspired to do some cake baking of her own. We had a cake mix, but no frosting so she turned to the handy-dandy internet and found a recipe!

What a smart girl!



She mixed, baked, and frosted the entire cake all by HERSELF!


It's her PEACE sign creation.

Preeeetty cute!


And it didn't taste bad either!

(She also won that cute cake stand from a raffle. See, she was destined to bake cakes!)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Cookies, S'mores and a Pie!

Since I've been off for the summer I've been doing a lot more baking than usual. Here are a few things I've made:

Chicken Pot Pie


My friend, Karen, taught me how to do this one, and it's REALLY EASY!
This is a standard 9 inch pie. All you need is:
Ready-made pie crust that comes in a box and you unroll it.
Cooked chicken {I used leftovers from a roasted chicken}
A package of frozen mixed veggies {carrots, corn, peas etc.}
Cooked potatoes cut up in chunks.
A can of cream of mushroom or chicken soup.

Lay down the first pie crust layer in the pie pan and trim the edge.
Layer in all the ingredients.
Cover it all with the last pie crust layer.
Pinch the edges and cut slits on top to vent steam.
Turned out yummy!


During our rv trip to Oregon I got addicted to these.


I saw on somebody's blog that they made them in the oven- so I copied!
They got perfectly toasted in the toaster oven!

This week I had to make 6 dozen cookies to bring to some meetings.

Crinkle Cookies!
{Just like everyone's grandma used to bake!}

Ingredients:
half a cup a butter
1 and half cup of sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. of vanilla
4 (1 oz) squares of unsweetened chocolate (melted)
2 cups of flour
2 tsp. of baking powder
one-quarter tsp. of salt
powdered sugar

Set oven at 350 degrees. Mix ingredients. Refrigerate dough for 2 hours.
Roll into balls and coat with powdered sugar before baking.

They are so yummy!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

I Found My Thrills...

The day before we set out for our Oregon road trip
I went blueberry picking with my friend, Lisa, her son
and my daughter.


Since I had never been blueberry picking before, I was quite excited.
We went to the Guisto's farm in Acampo.


I'm glad we decided to go at 7:30 am because it got hot out there quickly!



We found out that each bush has a slightly different flavor!


So you gotta pretty much taste as you go to ensure
picking your favorite taste of blueberry!


Between my daughter and I, we managed to pick quite a few!


I packed up a big bag to take on vacation with us and I froze the rest.


So far, I've just been eating them "raw" or making yummy pancakes.

Does anyone have any to-die-for recipes involving blueberries to send me?


Monday, March 30, 2009

Just Dreaming...


Have you seen one of these in person?
It's the Miele Plumbed Coffee System: Built in Coffee Maker and Espresso Machine.
It is
AMAZING and I am in LOVE with it!


I had my one and only encounter with this wonderful piece of machinery
at that baby shower I was raving about in my last post.
When I was at the shower I asked the hostess where the coffee carafe was so I could help myself to a cup of coffee. She told me to grab a cup and come in the kitchen.

She lead me to the most beautiful coffee machines I'd ever seen
built into her kitchen cabinets.

The hostess placed the cup under the spout and a minute later I had this fresh-ground frothy, creamy, steaming hot cup of pure ambrosia...
I thought I had died and gone to heaven!!!



I didn't know that fresh-ground and brewed coffee came out
frothy and creamy like that! Who needs cream?!

When I got home, I, of course, decided I needed to have me one of these
machines. It would be my hubby's best friend after all...

Well, I discovered it would only set me back about
$2,950.00 on sale {regularly $3,149.00}.

But, hey we're worth it, right?
The hostess did say it was their favorite thing in their home!

I think I'll just dream about it for now...