Sometimes I'm a mess!

Today was both a bad and good day in my world of baking. Bad because I broke some things. Good because I have a wonderful friend who only wants me to be happy. :)

Usually I like to hear bad news first because then I get to save the good, but lately I've been realizing that might not be the best way to think, so I'll start off differently today.

The good is that a very amazing friend of mine gave me a surprise present, for no reason at all whatsoever! It was really sweet and really made my day.

The bad is that when I got home I decided I wanted some dessert (yes we do need to eat dessert after breakfast), so I got ready to make some brownies (box mix...mint - yum!) & use my new toy. :)

Now there was the remnants of some cake I made Tim earlier in the week sitting on the stove on top of one of the rear burners. After I turn the oven on, Tim moves it away & informs me that there is a vent in that burner & (surprise) it gets really hot back there so we shouldn't keep anything on it. Now, I knew that the back of the stove got hot, but somehow, honest to god, I never knew there was a vent back there. So Tim goes outside to shovel some snow, & what do I do? I put a PLASTIC LID from a tupperware container RIGHT ON THE BURNER.

Ok, not my most shining moment. It melted all over the burner. So I pull the burner off the oven & run to ask Tim what to do. He assures me it's ok, at which point I return to the mixing bowl. Contentedly mixing, suddenly the head of my spatula breaks in half. The wood pops through the rubber part. GREAT. I loved that spatula. Yeah, silly, I know, but it was one of the first tools I bought for my kitchen in my new apt & it was GREEN! And it had a bamboo handle. And I broke it. *tear*

Just not one of my best days in the kitchen. This day topped off my week which consisted of me showcasing my cake baking skills. I guess the cake itself was ok (though I didn't love the taste of it) but when I tried to make lemon curd to put between the layers, I mixed together all 8 egg yolks, 3 lemons juiced & zested, & proceeded to boil the eggs. Yum. Everyone loves boiled egg in their lemon curd. Determined to not waste 20 minutes of zesting, juicing, and separating, I tried to strain out the egg. Yes, I know, illogical, but it made sense at the time. I figured even if I didn't get the lemon curd to work out (even though that was the whole point of making the cake), I could make some excellent icing. So what do I do? I manage to somehow beat the sides of the pan into the icing. Little black flecks of teflon. Needless to say, I won't be adding a post about that one (although you can read how to make it properly here).

So the brownies were yummy after all, I broke up some spare junior mints & put some extra chocolate chips in it to make it ultra-not-so-good-for-me.

Haha, you thought you were going to get a recipe for brownies today, but instead all you get is the knowledge that I make my brownies from a box! :)

Here's to a great start to your week!

Waffle Photos

Okay, so I keep making this awful mistake where I don't remember to write down ANYTHING about the recipes I make. Oh, but I do manage to photograph them. So I know what they look like, and the general ingredients, but the measurements...ha. Who needs measurements anyway, right?

So instead, today only (one time special offer), you get some pictures, with a promise for recipes soon because...I'm baking today... :)

Oh, and a side note I've been meaning to mention something regarding my pictures...sorry they're often so awful! In my tiny dingy apartment (in the winter, when it's been ungodly cloudy for weeks on end), I have awful lighting. And when I'm making recipes it's usually night. Hence, awful pictures. But the recipes taste very good, despite the quality of the pictures, I swear!

Today I'm sharing pictures of whole wheat waffles. I'm very into whole wheat, and I really like the taste of it, so I use it often in recipes. It's good for you too!

And just so you know, there is no way in heck that I would ever use this much confectioner's sugar on ANYTHING I make. But my darling boyfriend loves it, and hilariously when he took his first bite, he starting coughing violently. And that's what happens when you have too much of a good thing. ;)