I have done a lot of cooking and baking recent! It's been so much fun. I've been playing around with frostings and sprinkles and fun things!

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I have technically been on vacation since Friday, December 23, 2011, but I ended up working on 23rd, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st (though less this day) BUT I did it from the car and home! And because I was home I got to cook! So below are pictures of everything I made from Wed - tonight! I'm not exactly excited about going back to work ( Read more... )

Life has been a little crazy, but I did have time to make Christmas Cookies this weekend. Yesterday I made mint thumbprint cookies with Hershey Kisses in the middle (yum, but I kinda put in too much chocolate, so they are really fudgy), Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, and Dark and White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. Today I made Gingerbread Men, ( Read more... )

rinkle asked for a food post so below the cut are things I have made lately!

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I made chocolate cupcakes and I am going to fill them with raspberry filled (made fresh with frozen raspberries) and they are going to be topped with raspberry buttercream. For the buttercream, I pureed frozen raspberries ( Read more... )

I have been cooking a lot lately and made some really good things. I have some new cook books and I've tried a lot of new recipes that have become house favorites. Also, I've been much better about eating vegetables. I've just been buying frozen peas and beans and corn and just steaming them.

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(1) Psych! It's back and Shawn and Gus are more hilarious than ever! And Lassie and Juliet! Last week's episode was pretty fantastic.

(2) Haven! I haven't seen any reviews for this show but it has me hooked. I hope others like it and are watching.

(3) Young Avengers! I picked up the first few trades, plus Civil War, and now I'm reading ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much over the nasty cold, so all in all I had a decent weekend. Did a lot to get ready for the party next weekend and then just spent most of today being a giant bum, which was nice. I watched a bunch of episodes of Eureka on sci fi and that was fun ( Read more... )

Things I learned today from baking 6 different kinds of chocolate chip cookies ( Read more... )

I was reorganizing part of my pantry today and I realized I have a lot of different kinds of flour!

So a poll (as if anyone cares, but it's Saturday night, and I've read all the comic's I picked up today, and the Olympics are fun, but move slow, so a random poll it is!)

Poll Flour

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