Wednesday, December 24, 2008

COOKIES

I opened a can of whoop ass on some cookies.
Here have some recipes and pics
First on the list is Linzer cookies! THEY WERE SO HARD TO MAKE OMG. Do you know how hard it is to roll dough a uniform width? Really. Really. HARD.
Fucking difficult ass cookies
Next up were my holiday favorite Chocolate-Mint cookies, made with Andes mints
Chocolate Mint cookies
1 box of Andes green mints (cut into halves)
¾ cup butter
1 ½ cup dark brown sugar
2 Tbsp water
2 cups (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 eggs
2 ½ cups flour
1 ¼ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
Chocolate sprinkles
1. In a heavy saucepan, melt butter then add brown sugar & water. Add chocolate chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and continue stirring until chocolate pieces are completely melted. Pour into large mixing bowl and let cool for 10 minutes.
2. With mixer at high speed, beat in eggs one at a time. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients until blended.
3. Chill dough about 2 hours.
4. Preheat oven to 350 F and line cookie sheets with foil. Roll Tbsps of dough into balls and separate by about 2” on sheet. Bake 12-13 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and immediately place Andes mint on each hot cookie, then swirl the mint when melted. Decorate with sprinkles and allow to cool (but don’t stack the while cooling, they will fuse together)
Makes ~60 cookies
90 calories/cookie
Everywhere you look, delicious cookies!

Yeah. I made these.
Kolacki

2 sticks of butter
8oz cream cheese
2 cups flour
apricot, prune, blackberry, etc filling. (strawberry and grape not recommended)

1. Mix all ingredients like pie dough and form into ball. Refrigerate overnight.
2. Roll out on floured board, cut into desired shapes (I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter for the ones below, but squares and circles can be used too). Add 1 teaspoon (tablespoon if your cut-out are larger) of filling and fold cookie up.
3. Bake at 400 F for 10-12 minutes or until light brown.
4. Remove from over and allow to cool. When cool, dust with powdered sugar.


Pastry goodness, like buttah in yer mouth. Probably has something to do with the 2 sticks of butter...


Happy Holidays, etc

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Epic for all the right reasons or The Molten Mess

In honor of the end of classes my friends decided I would make a cake. This cake in fact. And we knew that it would be delicious in our mouths and we would eat it.

It turned into a pretty epic cake.

A daunting task ahead of me

Taken no less than 1.5 hours after the first photo. You can't see me but i'm covered in cake stuffs.

MMMM LOOKS GOOD DOES IT NOT?

.... Right until I poured that chocolate ganache on.

Things I have learned from this experience: Ganache is hot. Hot things melt frosting. They melt frosting right off the cake. And you know what else? If you do the ganache wrong, it separates into oil and chocolate paste. You cannot see it and I didn't want to take that tragic photograph, but that is exactly what happened to this cake. It was a molten mess of peanut butter frosting and semi-sweet chocolate goo clinging to the porous fluff of the inner cake.

I then transported this cake all the way out to Allston in that driving rain last Thursday. Four of my hungriest friends, and myself could barely make a dent in this rich Reeses cup masterpiece. As shitty as that beast looks? THAT WAS HOW DELICIOUS IT WAS.

Cleanup was kind of a bitch though. Just sayin.

Also, subbed light cream for the half and half in the ganache. No difference, imho.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I see what you did there

Say it ain't so!

Cake? In coffee cups? The microwave?! What the hell kind of recipe is this?

This is what you make when you are craving cake but don't want to bake a huge one because you won't eat it before you have to move out for Thanksgiving. THAT'S RIGHT.

5 minute chocolate cake
(recipe)

That stove in the background? DON'T NEED IT.

Into the microwave it goes!

And now its in my mouth UWAAAAAAH

And I threw together some peanut butter frosting at the last minute to frost it! Kind of eye-balled it so it was really cream-cheesy, but delicious.

So I guess dorm living doesn't have to suck so hard for those of you who don't have kitchens yet.

Friday, November 21, 2008

On the eve of 22



I thought for sure this year would be different.

I'm in Boston for my very first birthday. I'm with my friends... Its my golden birthday. Naturally everything has conspired against me, and now I cannot celebrate my birthday.




I am left feeling very alone, on the eve of the end of this portion of my life.

Friday, November 14, 2008

mission complete


well better than I thought it'd turn out.

somethin?



better than nothing?

...to be finished at a later indeterminate date.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Yeah... about that..



Not even joking here...

Sunday, November 2, 2008

But what have you done for me lately?

So, my friends, I've been pretty absent from this blog, but no more! I have for you a mondo post that will somehow encapsulate everything cool since September began.

I am still with Andy. And that's pretty great. Not terribly much else to say other than things have been pretty great. He has been DJing everywhere recently, and I have been along for most of it, being supportive and dancing by my lonesome.
He can be found at:
His blog
His music blog
His radio show's podcast upload
His radio show (Wed 10p-12a)


I have a new-found obsession with food blogging and have gone a little nuts creating brand new things to feed myself with.

In the past month I have made:

Apple Blackberry crumble (no pics or links, sorry friends)
Butternut Squash and carmelized onion galettes
(original recipe) (no pics :()
Chocolate cupcakes with Peppermint Buttercream frosting
(original recipes) (My version featured left)

I made this last one for my only truly successful House event (I'm an RA this year D:) which was Urban Capture the Flag. Only 8 residents showed but they really enjoyed themselves and desperately want to do it again when it snows. I am, of course all for it. Goodness knows how much I love tackle sports. SO few people turned out that everyone ended up getting a cupcake. The winners just go two.

Lemon Crusted Chicken on fresh bed o'greens (which is dinner at mi casa this evening)

And not least I am about to embark on the dessert which I plan to take to Rory's:

Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes (original recipe) drizzled with caramel


Also!
I recently went to New Hampshire with Rory and Tom. Id est, pic spam.



Friday, May 23, 2008

Whoops

On hiatus because I lost the driver CD for my tablet and now can't use it here in Chicago. Sorry everyone.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Storm's Rollin In


How I feel after a long week

I wish I had used the blur tool earlier and gotten more of that watercolor effect.

Oh well. Win some. Lose some.

Also:

Monday, April 14, 2008

The Puppy


Guys, you know what'd be swell?

A puppy.


Look at that goddamn cute puppy! (models 1, 2 borrowed from cuteoverload.com and dkimages, respectively.)

But seriously, sometimes finding that puppy is a metaphor for my life. I'm never gonna keep that puppy. :(

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Housing is such a bitch


Man, the crazy thing is that we got the place we wanted.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm not gonna live there!

Backstory: I'm going to be the RA of the dorm I live in now, but they gave me a better housing lottery ticket than my friend Nicole (featured), so I agreed to do housing selection anyway, even though I don't need to. We showed up and got one of the last apartments for her. I'll drop the place over the summer automatically and Nicole will get an awesome apartment in the swanky Student Village.

Its gorgeous out. I'm going for a walk!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

First (real) post!


Comics! Hooray! Unlike everything previous this was drawn this year (2008) with my new tablet. I have made and shown off many drawings and comics other than those posted here. If they're not posted, they're not gonna be posted. Get over it. they're probably pencil thingies I don't wanna ink, clean, and scan.

That's why tablets are awesome. No ink. No scan. Minimal clean.

You really only have to deal with Photoshop!

Wait....
 
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