I sort of invented some cookies tonight, and I thought I'd better get the recipe down before I forget. They are very yummy and not a bit healthy ( Read more... )

And thus I continue to turn my LJ into a recipe blog ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just go on a cooking rampage and make a whole bunch of stuff and spend all afternoon and evening in the kitchen and then my feet hurt and I'm tired and I don't do the dishes like a total cad.

Today I made:

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This is my breakfast:
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My bro Andrew and bro-in-law Josh had their birthday things today, never mind the disparate dates. Instead of going laser tagging, I stayed home and made a German chocolate cake. It took me around four hours, all told, and during none of that was I sitting down. There was always something to do. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. This is the recipe. It's ( Read more... )

I did a bad, baaaaad thing by writing Chocolate Gash Tortoise, omg. Dessert cravings like you wouldn't beliiieeeeve.

Part of my family went to Illinois for a funeral today, so I had the kitchen at my mercy. I made baklava. This helped.

I have also been experimenting with Cake in a Mug to vanquish the strong desire for chocolate cake. It's not ( Read more... )

As noted in a recent post, I has been a-baking. My family gave lunch at church today, which is a big deal. (The way my church does it, we have morning service, lunch together, and then afternoon service. Families in the church take turns giving lunch, and we have enough people on the list that my family does it about once a year, so always around ( Read more... )

I have a co-worker who bakes stuff that is out of this world. And then she brings it in and gives it to us. This is how I am able to live on about three dollars a day and still not really be dieting--I eat tremendously fantastic cookies and cupcakes and brownies and other assorted bad-but-good things that sit on the break room table for free ( Read more... )

So I just spent five hours proofreading this really freaking big project for Vera Bradley.

MY EYES NO LONGER WORK. I THINK THEY JUST FELL OUT OF MY HEAD.

::picks eyeballs up off keyboard and pops them back into skull::

Agh.

In other news, I am contemplating baklava. I think I shall make a pan this weekend, because the recipe is not that difficult. And ( Read more... )