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Culinary Quirks

Recipes be damned!
An inside peek into the tasty delicious chaos of my kitchen. Or perhaps more aptly, what I'm eating right now :) Any questions? Feel free to ask away!

Jan 27

Southwest salad.

Shredded iceberg topped with carrots, tomato, black beans, cucumbers, corn, spicy tortills strips and some ranch dressing and hot sauce.

Jan 20

Baby spinach tossed with maple balsamic dressing and topped with roasted squash, eggplant and sweet onion, craisins, almonds and shredded swiss.

Jan 19

Beef pie topped with cheesy mashed potatoes.

Served with steamed broccoli and red pepper slivers.

Jan 13

Squash soup and home made pretzel rolls.

Soup included butternut, cauliflower, onion, garlic, carrots, apples, fresh banana peppers…really any fall vegetable I had in the fridge was tossed a pot, cooked until soft, then pureed. I added chicken chunks, roasted garlic & some chicken soup base after the puree and let it simmer until chicken was cooked through.

Jan 11

Almond crusted cod, roasted asparagus with parmesan, baked sweet potato with brown sugar and butter.

Jan 09

hugdrugs asked: for the mustache cookies, did you make those? i wanna know the recipe.. lol

I used my basic sugar cookie recipe and then topped them with a cocoa buttercream. Here’s my recipes:

Ingredients

2 sticks butter

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

3 cups all purpose flour

Directions

Cream first 4 ingredients until smooth. Add flour and baking powder until combined.

Chill dough for a couple hours, then roll out into a sheet just less than a quarter inch thick and cut out all your shapes.

Bake at 400 degrees for 8-12 minutes or until dry on top. Don’t overbake! Use parchment paper on cookie sheet and either leave on sheet to cool or carefully slide parchment sheet onto a cooling rack. Either way, don’t try to pick up the cookies until cool.

Frosting:

2 sticks softened butter

4 cups confectioners sugar

1 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp vanilla

1/3 cup milk

Cream all ingredients until light and fluffy, approx 5 minutes.