Being a lady-of-leisure (aka temporarily unemployed) has allowed me to try some new recipes. I'm proud to say most have been winners, such as homemade pizza dough, chicken & summer vegetable tostadas (this calls for using the broiler, yeah right. I warmed the tortillas in the micro), and my new favorite salad because it requires 0 cooking. ZERO! I cheated and used defrosted corn, but hey - can you blame me? Lemon mint granitas and watermelon lemonade are really refreshing, especially when vodka is added.
Sadly, some of the recipes have been duds. Do yourself a favor and don't bother trying these, they aren't worth it. Eggplant pizza? No. Way too much eggplant and just a weird flavor. Peanut butter world peace cookies? Sound great in theory, choc + p.b., even the dough was tasty. The final product? No thanks. I'm thinking adding eggs would make the cookies chewy, these were rather hard - and I not blaming it on my crappy oven that may, or may not, have overbaked them (I need a new oven, Steven!!!). The chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies were edible, but even with cutting the recipe in half, it was way too much. And the entire process was fairly time-consuming.
We celebrated a neighbor's birthday this past weekend and I went back to an old standby that I knew was good - a coconut bundt cake. And instead of using the glaze, I decided to drizzled with the chocolate sauce from this recipe. I was also channeling my friend Jocelyn since it was her birthday Saturday and she loves coconut; sadly she lives in VA so no cake for her.
Because Steven is the biggest.football.fan.EVER, I had bought a football stadium cake pan to make a birthday cake for him a few years ago. It's been sitting on the shelf ever since. :/ In honor of football season starting (already, really?), I thought I'd dust it off. And because Texans are absolute freaks about their football, I made a little University of Texas flag and a little Ohio State flag (our neighbors love OSU).
The final product:
I'm hoping this means I might be a little more motivated to blog. Don't be too optimistic, this lady-of-leisure is going back to work soon.
