me make food

I sent her a pic of these awesome cake ball cones as a challenge. She accepted. She used google pic search to find the recipe. They used fluff to stick the crumbs together. Prob is fluff has so little flavor. They were mediocre at best, but looked great. It was a fun project though.

The fluff just added no flavor to the balls. The Bark is meh as well. They looked cool, but eating one was not something one would do on purpose. They looked cool as hell though.

Well it took me more than a week, but we finally made some cheddar bay biscuits. Instead of the recipe in the cartoon, I went with this one. It uses milk instead of water, and you mix in butter to the mix before cooking. I used a shredder and some frozen butter. I also put granulated garlic in the mix plus parsley.

They were amazing. All the good stuff hid that bisquick flavor. Super easy to make as well.

Watched the most recent episode of Good Eats and at the end the Chicken Biscuit Pot Pie Alton made looked delicious. After the show was over and we looked at each other and communicated via brain talk that we would be eating that. Headed to our new secret Russeses and got some supplies. They did not have chicken sausage, but they had turkey and I grabbed it. I asked an older gentleman if vitamin A milk is whole milk, he thought it prob was, but prarieland sold whole milk so I was good. Then I spoke with 3 older ladies about aluminum free baking powder, none of them knew what it was and Russeses did not have it. Seems some folkk do not like the aluminum being in there for safety reasons, but it does not make a difference while baking.

We had roasted a chicken the day before and the recipe was pretty simple. Sage cost a lot, but I think it helped or something. We did not use the thyme. We are just not fans of thyme.

Theresa has made these a few times and they are a huge hit. A peanut butter bar with peanut butter frosting and chocolate chips. So drool worthy and easy to make.

Recipe from cake spy.

^ before the frosting ^

Theresa wanted to try stuffed cupcakes and try we did. Inspiration from bake it in a cake.

The one above was a powdered donut in there. more below

Serious eats mentioned these Wilton brownie cup pans and we so knew we had to get them. The all edge brownie pans are pricey and we have the cheap one they sell on TV, and it sucks really bad. These pans were cheap and seemed like they would work well. Theresa makes some insanely awesome brownies and we tested the pans out last night. She used a disher to measure and some got 2 scoops and the others got 3. They came out amazing. it is like an all edge brownie. The rim of the cup was almost like a cookie and was firm.

below is the recipe and procedure.

For a while now I can get Theresa to go up to Omaha easy as long as we visit cupcake island. It seems that might come to an end soon because she has started making some awesome cuppycakes. I lost a bet with Theresa’s parents over is Monk would find out who killed Trudy. (curses) So I had to make them dinner. We had from scratch fried ravioli with dipping sauce Theresa made, steak au poivre, Theresa’s killer risotto, NE sweet corn, some home made bread, and Boston creme and strawberry shortcake cuppycakes.

As usual with most things we make the cupcakes were from scratch. She used Alton Brown’s Chiffon Cupcake recipe for both. The boston creme ones had vanilla pastry cream piped inside the core, chocolate ganache coating, and some whipped cream on top. I picked up some strawberry preserves for the filling in the shortcake ones. Oh man were they good.

Saw this over on Serious Eats, cupcakes with a choc chip cookie inside. Sent the link to Theresa and she took it as a dare. Theresa did not need any bought mix, she has perfected her soft and chewy cookies and makes a mean cuppycake. She did a couple at a time to see what happens. First ones were a bit too much cookie, but by the end the ratio was good. She is going to try a bit of a drier cookie dough next time. The cookie part was very fluffy, and she is looking for firmer. Oh and next time she is going to make PB cookies in choc cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Nom

It is like waiting to open presents on xmas. Theresa just stares at the fresh bananas trying to jedi mind trick to make the nanners ripen.

can’t promise I won’t forget anything but here it goes
1 stick butter, sofened
1/3 cup sugar
2/3 cups brown sugar
cream butter and sugars
2 eggs, add 1 at a time to creamed butter and sugar
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
blend all in a separate bowl
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons salt
alternate adding flour mix and nana mix to the creamed sugar/eggs, beginning and ending with the flour mix
put in greased 9 inch loaf pan and bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 min or until toothpick comes out clean