this is the recipe we grew up with. I called Mom and finally got it and could make them today.

oven = 350*, for 12-15 minutes each tray. This made 3 trays of cookies. (I used the tree disc on the cookie-press)

Room temperature - 2 sticks of butter, 3 oz of cream cheese. (i>not 8 - THREE ( Read more... )

Besides Ironkite making Gyros (Cook's Illustrated) and Tziki (We used store-bought whole wheat pitas, shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, hand-crumbled feta, we also went crazy with the appetizers. (I even forgot to bring out the cheesecake until after midnight ( Read more... )

...being a grownup is pretty dang awesome. (I found S4 of Muppets (some bay of piratical types, apparently), so I'm seeing some I don't remember ever seeing before ( Read more... )

This is the Bananas Foster we made (bacardi 151 = fireball of yum ( Read more... )

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Doughnut-Muffins/Detail.aspx
I started with the link above (many of the commenters seem to think that these will make the purely fried style of doughnut, not the cake type one that they clearly lead to), with a few changes.

• Our ( Read more... )

I've been feeling the need for cookies or something, so this morning I made http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Buttermilk-Pound-Cake-II/Detail.asp, almost as written. No lemon stuff, a bit of almond extract. sugar cut down to 2.5 cups, half of it light brown ( Read more... )

I think if Roomba runs around downstairs and Ironkite helps me put away the Xmas presents, we're pretty close to being party ready ( Read more... )

Yesterday I determinedly did not poke around online after I got home, or watch any d/l'd shows, and just read comic books (and sorta dozed). I checked my recycle bin (these are all copies, and i delete as i read), and it turns out I read 32 yesterday. Still all from the spring 1999 Xmen universe, so I didn't make much linear progress, but it felt ( Read more... )

i wasn't feeling writery today, but sticking with my goal of 100 words/day (story words, not email or LJ words), i wrote 686 today. I'm trying to login to enter my total (this should bring me to around 7k? separate files daily, so i don't have a master count on my own at the moment), but the site is super slow. I want my bar graph to show a rise ( Read more... )

I made a sort of squash lasagne for dinner, based off of this from Allrecipes.com, but here's how my version happened.

Preheat oven to 350
Peel and dice 3 cups of Squash (I used 1 acorn, 1 delicata), put on rimmed cookie sheet, sprayed lightly with no-stick stuff. Roast in oven for about 30+ minutes. (Save the seeds for roasting another time. ( Read more... )