Happy Birthday Husband!!
(yes, that is birthday bread)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Disgusting Pudding
How can those two words go together? Especially when it is chocolate pudding! I had half a gallon of milk that expires tomorrow, so I needed to use it up... I thought - PUDDING! You know, cooked pudding, then the milk will last a little longer. Well, the recipe I found that sounded good was for that soy milk, but some people commented they used regular milk and it turned out "great"... Well, I thought I had all the other ingredients, so I started making it. Oops. No cornstarch. So I subbed brown flour. I don't know why, that might have been my first mistake. The recipe said to bring to boil on medium then turn to low and simmmer four minutes until thickened. After like fifteen minutes it still wasn't boiling and I had turned up the heat several times. I gave up. Took it off the heat and here was maybe my second mistake. The recipe said after you remove from heat whisk in two tablespoons of butter. Well, when I proposed pudding to the boys, Jacob said he wanted peanut butter pudding so I added two tablespoons of PB instead of butter.
Whatever right?
Anyways, that was this morning. This afternoon we took it out of the fridge. Dark brown skin on top of the pudding, creamy chocolate underneath. I thought it didn't look too bad. Was I ever wrong! Jacob said it was icky. Daniel cried because his "treat" didn't taste good.
Now I am not in the habit of wasting food, so I dumped the bowl of pudding into the blender, added alot of sugar, more milk, and a banana. I tasted it, not bad, and poured it into Popsicle molds. Tomorrow we will find out if those taste good.
In conclusion, keep boxed instant pudding mix in my cupboard for when we want pudding, and find something else to do with the milk.
Whatever right?
Anyways, that was this morning. This afternoon we took it out of the fridge. Dark brown skin on top of the pudding, creamy chocolate underneath. I thought it didn't look too bad. Was I ever wrong! Jacob said it was icky. Daniel cried because his "treat" didn't taste good.
Now I am not in the habit of wasting food, so I dumped the bowl of pudding into the blender, added alot of sugar, more milk, and a banana. I tasted it, not bad, and poured it into Popsicle molds. Tomorrow we will find out if those taste good.
In conclusion, keep boxed instant pudding mix in my cupboard for when we want pudding, and find something else to do with the milk.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A BIG Batch of Cookies
So I decided to make cookies with the boys... To keep them in the kitchen for a little while. It was like three in the afternoon and we had to leave for church at 5:40. There is this awesome recipe on Allrecipes called Award Winning Cookies. I last made them for Daniel's first birthday, but I made gigantic cookies, so I wasn't really thinking about the size of the batch. First off, it calls for two packages of instant vanilla pudding mix. I only had one, but I also had one chocolate, so I used them together. It didn't occur to me as I was creaming two cups of butter with two cups of sugar that this was one huge recipe. Then I added four eggs and four and a half cups of flour... My mixer was almost spilling over! The recipe calls for four cups of chocolate chips, I only used two and no nuts. The dough was delicious.
I got about TEN DOZEN cookies made before it was time to go to church... Granted they are small children sized cookies... But I also put nearly half the dough in the freezer.
In conclusion, be aware when you are making a giant recipe, and don't start it before you have to go to church. Yum. I am eating one now.
I got about TEN DOZEN cookies made before it was time to go to church... Granted they are small children sized cookies... But I also put nearly half the dough in the freezer.
In conclusion, be aware when you are making a giant recipe, and don't start it before you have to go to church. Yum. I am eating one now.
