Finding Fabulous Food, Photos and Crafts to Share
Here is the EASIEST chocolate frosting I have ever made. It will frost 24 cupcakes using a knife to spread it like a can of frosting would. To make high pillars of frosting on top, you will need to double the recipe. And… NO trans fats! The FDA is going to ban them soon anyway, …
Book Update: I finished my freezer meal presentation for one MOPS group and it was a huge hit. I can’t wait to finish the book. Here are the sections so far: Preface, Introduction, What foods you can freeze, what foods you cannot freeze, how to freeze (almost) everything methods, A chart of all cuts of …
Book Update: I’m halfway through “The Rent Collector” by Camron Wright, and it is a really good story. So far, I would recommend it or try the first chapter out anyway. Recipe Update: This cake and cake recipe is the result of baking for almost 200 guests for my cousin’s wedding. Half of the cupcakes …
Book Update: I was chosen to make Spritz cookies for the holiday book for Heirloom’s Baking Sheet. The recipe looks very pretty! I started reading “The Rent Collector” by Camron Wright. It is a captivating read and enjoying the first part of it – which is sometimes the slow part of books. The setting is …
Book Update: No books! I have been working on a craft to share and revolutionize the kitchen! Okay, no not really. But, it did make my poor dining chairs look a lot nicer after 6 years of children in the house. Our book club books for this month are “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and …
So… I got an email the other day asking for 6 cakes. Carrot cakes. The kind that requires lots of shredding of carrots and toasting of nuts. Now I see why box mixes are sooooo convenient and desirable. I think a box mix would have been about $3 and the crap frosting in a can …
There is a serious lack of desserts lately! I’m sorry. But, this recipe will make it up to you. I promise. The chocolate cake is dark and moist. The layers of cookies and cream are like the tasty cream filling of an oreo cookies (I used Trader Joe’s Jo Joe’s). Now after making this, here …
Book Update: I was fingerprinted today. Yup. Now all those children that I’m not even going to teach will be safe from me. I asked the lady why I had to do it again since I had already been fingerprinted 10 years ago. She said that fingerprints change. Uh, wha??? Anyway, crazy lady took my fingerprints …
Book Update: I started reading “The How of Happiness” by Sonja Lyubormirksy which the higher level Applied Positive Psychology class lists as the primary text. Some of it is redundant of my previous positive psychology text and some is new. A few things that stick out: In order to become happier, you can do acts of …
Book Update: I’ve read more of Sonja Lyusbomirsky’s work on positive psychology on my own. Her conclusions on happiness are really interesting and go against a lot of what we are “taught”. One example that comes to mind is the phrase “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.” Because, truthfully, we do sweat the small stuff. The …
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