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.
5 comments:
Mmmm...caaaaake. Thanks for the do's and dont's of the recipe world. Can't wait to try some of them!
I hope it cools down soon for you...and rains. I'll talk to the rain gods and see if they wont mind leaving FL and heading your way.
yay! blog more! i need to make that salad again soon. the corn at the store this week was gross and expensive, so i got frozen corn, too. tastes better than bad, "fresh" corn.
and hmm to the football stadium. that is all. ;)
Welcome back! :) Even if it's just temporary. The cake looks so yummy! Tater shared your favorite salad recipe with me. It's super easy and oh-so-good! Thanks :)
I think you should change your blog title to Life in Lithuania.
She's aliiiiive! ;)
Yay for cooking! There's a lot of delicious sounding stuff in there.
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