Yes, this is yet another post on cooking ( Read more... )

Amazing what a little change in eating habits will do. I'm actually feeling better although grumbling over having to actually pay attention to what goes into my mouth. I jumped on the scale even though they say to do that only once a week. 3# down. Cool beans ( Read more... )

Wow, what a week. I baked my ass off last weekend as I needed to bring desserts to both my folks place and the old man's. To boot, he wanted to bake cookies this year, so we made three batches of sugar cookies (ugh - hate them) and a really decent workable gingerbread ( Read more... )

Day 4 sucked big time. I realize reading my journal that my English deteriorated as I used more and more Spanish ( Read more... )

The chocolates were a huge hit. I only made 90 of them until I heard from Sky that there were 100 attendees, so it was back to the kitchen. This time around I used a recipe that I made on the fly. Just looked in the formulas that we used for school as a guideline and made up my own. They were VERY well received so I'm pretty stoked ( Read more... )

Had quite the delightful time in Ventura last weekend. We arrived a wee bit late due to work schedules, but with enough time to chill out, shower, change and hit the road for dinner. It was a short walk from the hotel to dinner or so we thought. The "restaurant" was more of a tapas bar with nothing too appealing on the menu food-wise, so we had ( Read more... )