My turn to make dinner. I made my International Hot Wings, but I don't have the recipe memorized, so I had to follow the link to this blog to remember how to make it. This time it came out yummy, but it was too sweet. Mark liked it.

The power team. New team member is the hot chile flavored oil. Offical notice: I don't like normal Tabasco sauce. Tonight I used chipotle smoked Tabasco and this was extremely yummy.

A bunch of eye-balling of these ingredients went into a pot with 2 sticks of butter.

I was fortunate to be the first one to use their Fry Daddy for the wings


Plating - before we ate


Plate after eating -- 13 wings later


Now for dessert, I made carmel corn 

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My coworker Slavisa was telling me about this cookie his wife makes. He described it as a chocolate chip cookie with coconut. I like to think of myself as a creative person, but I had failed to think of using coconut in a standard chocolate chip cookie. I make wonderful oatmeal butterscotch cookies, so I should have thought of this new combination. Well, I had a little free time tonight, so a cookie making I go. This recipe is definitely going to be a Christmas cookie that I give out!!

Recipe: Just use the Tollhouse Chocolate Chip recipe. The magic here is in the few twists that Slavisa's wife spurred in me. 1) I made the dough chocolate by melting about 1oz of bitter-sweet chocolate and adding that to the batter just before adding the flour mixture. Next time, I would double that or even triple it. 2) I toasted 2 cups of coconut and added that with the flour mixture.

The take away from this recipe is that we never stop learning. I love cooking / baking as it is a way for me to be creative. I knew I couldn't really screw up this recipe, I could only make it better!

 

 

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I followed this simple recipe for a delicious pound cake. Here are my pictures.

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I am part of a Toastmasters club that meets at my company. In the club, I am the VP of Membership and one of my responsibilities is to help & encourage the other members to pay their membership fees. Below is my attempt to motivate everyone to earn their Brownie Points by paying their dues before 4/1/2009.

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Pioneer Women says this is the very best chocolate sheet cake, well, we'll find out tonight. I made this for our church home fellowship group. I haven't had a whole piece yet, but the icing was amazing as I licked the bowl, spoon, whisk, another spoon and the spoon rest.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/the_best_chocol/

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Breakfast Dessert

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If you look up blintzes, you'll see they really wouldn't be added to a pie crust because they don't set up. I did it because I have fresh blueberries that NEEDED to be eaten and this is super simple. To kick it up a little, I sauteed some apples.

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Recipes from http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/pumpkinpie.php

Before

Puree Processing

Scrap the "meat" away from the skin after it has been steamed and softened.


Hand stick blender to smooth the puree.

Puree is divided into cloth napkins and hung to dry. I'm trying to remove the water. The puree is very wet.


The pumpkin in all its parts: skin (going to trash), puree (going to be pie), and seeds (going to be roasted)

Pie Processing

If this is going to be a homemade project, then I made a crust


Rebekah isn't really a fan of pie, but here she is showing off the pie mixture.

One full 9" pie

There was some remaining filling, so we made crust for the ramekins.




The pie is done, the ramekins need a little more time.

After

Back to the idea of homemade, I made up some whipped topping too. The kids loved the topping way more then the pie itself.



In the end, Elijah, Les and I liked the pie. Oh well. It is really amazing and the flavor is so much more intense.



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