Category Archives: Eating

Chomp it up.

How to win the heart of a chocoholic

02/26/2009 Nichole 2 Comments

When I was a little girl, I’d occasionally “help” my mom bake. That help mostly consisted of waiting around to scrape the dough or batter out of the bowl and also sneaking lumps of brown sugar out of the bag when she wasn’t looking.
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My sweet tooth hasn’t faded away since then, but I am usually able to stop myself from eating lumps of brown sugar. Usually.

So last week when See’s sent me an assorted box of chocolate candy to try, I was excited. My aunt had been to a See’s store in San Francisco (I think) years and years and years ago, and I remember her talking about how great the chocolate was. (That sweet tooth? Genetic.)

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menu plan Monday

Weekend wrapup. And a menu!

02/23/2009 Nichole 5 Comments

Here are some things that happened this weekend:

I finally started on Poppy’s baby book. She’s three and a half. It isn’t nearly as in-depth as it would’ve been if I’d started it, say, three years ago. Yay.
Finances gave me a large, enduring headache. Boo.
The guy at the discount grocery store couldn’t figure out how to use the register. So he gave us 20-something dollars worth of groceries for $10.73. That made the headache hurt a little less. Yay.
We were home all weekend. Yay.
And Rockford didn’t spend all that much time working. Yay.
I rearranged the furniture in the living room. Well, I really did that last week. But I like it. So yay.

Because of the one gigantic and hideous blight on the weekend, we’re having yet another SuperCheapWhat’sInThePantry menu plan this week.

Monday: Pancakes & veggie sausages.
Poppy and Pete love Morningstar Farms’ veggie sausage links, so we usually have them on hand. And ever since I picked up a syrup dispenser a few months ago, I can’t stop making pancakes.

Tuesday: Butternut squash ravioli
I have nearly reached the end of my butternut squash ravioli tolerance, but Pi is still enjoying them and they’re made from a vegetable. So we’ll keep having them.

Wednesday: Spaghetti
Back-to-back pasta nights. Carboriffic.

Thursday: Fish sticks
There was a buy-one, get-one-free sale on giant bags of fish sticks this weekend. Suddenly, my freezer is awash in fish sticks.

Eating

Lemons to lemonade

02/11/2009 Nichole 4 Comments

Poppy and I decided to make some cupcakes yesterday, and nearly everything that could’ve gone wrong with them did. The batter poured out of the overfilled cups, resulting in slightly overbaked Jabba the Cupcakes. I pulled off the Jabba bits as best as I could, figuring I could cover the disfigurement with frosting.

Then I tried to make some buttercream, and it was a mess. It didn’t get thick and creamy at all, and there were little specks of butter throughout. I started to throw the whole mess away.

And then it came to me: Bakerella’s cupcake pops!

This probably ought to be called a Would Work for Me If I’d Do It post, because I haven’t actually constructed any cupcake pops yet. But I do have a bowl full of cakeyfrosting in the fridge. It’s a start.

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