Happy 100!

Today is a day to celebrate as I now have exactly 100 recipes in my computer database! I have made most of these recipes but sometimes if I see one I want to make in something other than allrecipes or one of my cookbooks, I will add it in. If I make something from a cookbook and it is good I put the recipe on the computer. If I try something after I have added it in and it is no good, I delete it. The program I use is MacGourmet. I really like it! My recipes are all organized into categories and there is this neat (and totally useful) function called "Chef View" that makes the recipe huge so I can see it across the kitchen. I add pictures of Jacob eating my food to the correct recipes. My favourite feature is that once you type in an ingredient it remembers... so if you have already used vanilla in ANY recipe, when you add a new recipe you just have to type in the V and it brings it up. I am having problems figuring out how to temporarily half or double a recipe, but I am not too great at computers. I also can never remember how I got the recipe onto Blogger, so it always looks different. To celebrate, I wish I could either give you the first recipe I put in, but I don't know what it was, or the 100th, but it is kind of boring. So here is a cake recipe instead:

Buttery Snack Cake with Broiled Topping

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Recipe By: Betty Crocker's Cookbook

Summary: 

So delicious!!

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup milk

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

Topping

1 cup coconut flakes

1/3 cup brown sugar, packed

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 tbsp milk

Directions:

Heat oven to 350.

Grease 9x9 pan.

Beat first group of ingredients with electric mixer, about 3 minutes. Pour into pan.

Bake 35 minutes.

Make coconut topping.

Set oven to broil.

Spread topping on warm cake and broil 1 1/2 minutes.

Cool 15 minutes.

With Regards to the Meatballs...

(see this week's Recipe of the Week)

I do make my own meatballs. After 6 years of somewhat okay but edible meatballs I finally found a great recipe, and with a little of my own creativity in the kitchen, I invented "Amazing Meatballs" (that is what they are called in my recipe database). Some dishes I use them in are meatball subs, sweet & sour meatballs, polynesian meatballs,  and creamy rice and meatball casserole. I think perhaps that these will be my own secret recipe... just request them next time you visit!

Clean Floors

Today I got a lot done in the kitchen. Cupcakes for a cupcake-cake for Daniel's baptism.... icing for the cupcakes... chocolate chip cake because I made too much icing and wanted to put it on something rather than eat it with a spoon... communion bread... lunch was sandwiches and dinner was leftover spaghetti... and I just finished cleaning the floor. I love clean floors.

Baking Bread

I have discovered over the last couple years the joy of making my own bread. I will readily admit that I do use a breadmachine to do most of the work, but I still find it fulfilling. The bread is usually delicious (sometimes I must mess up the recipe) and I know exactly what goes into it. How much sugar and salt is in a 2$ loaf of white bread at the grocery store? I don't know, but I know that my bread only has 2 tbsp sugar (sometimes I substitute 1 tbsp honey for the sugar) and 1 tsp of salt, and that makes me feel good. I also sub some of the white flour with whole wheat. Plus whenever a loaf comes out of the oven, I can have a hot fresh slice (perhaps with my own raspberry jam!).