Thursday, April 23, 2009

"I brought you flours"

I was watching one of my favorite movies of all the time other day. Stranger Than Fiction.
Will Ferrel and baking mixed into one?
What else could I ask for?
If a guy ever brought me "flours" I'm pretty positive I would want to marry him, right on the spot.
This is one of my favorite movie scenes.


Monday, April 13, 2009

Escargot

So I've been waiting to get a can of escargot and I finally got one the other day. I decided to prepare my escargots and freeze them. But I had to try one of them out first. I made toast points to dip in the escargot. I don't think I'm a huge fan of the canned escargot. It had a horrible can taste that is really hard to get rid of.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter weekend

So today is Easter and we all know what any kind of Italian family Holiday is all about.. and that's food.


I started the Easter weekend off by having my Nana and Grampy over early yesterday morning and we spent most of the day at the pool with the whole family. Then went home and made pasta and garlic bread and then later on that night we colored eggs. I made a homemade angel food cake, it came out awesome, looked just like something you'd buy in the store. We went to "The Girl's Strawberry Patch" and picked some fresh strawberries and made a strawberry shortcake with the angel food cake and my Nana made the fresh whipped cream. It was a nice dessert.



Today we watched awesome old school claymation Easter movies and snacked all day. I made stuffed mushrooms, my sister made her spinach dip. Then we had Easter dinner. I made a sweet potato casserole with dinner, it came out awesome. My Nana made her tiramisu, it was the most amazing tiramisu that I've ever had.








Tala's first Easter and she loves it! Can't you tell how much she is enjoying helping us clean up?





Saturday, April 4, 2009

Makeshift Cakesters?

So Albertson's is selling cake mix and containers of frosting for only 1 dollar each, I love the box cake mixes, although I'm not a huge fan of the premade frostings, they always taste a little too artificial for me. But I figured that I would try their cream cheese frosting and I made these very tasty cookie sandwiches. The recipe was extremely easy...



1 Box cake mix*

1/2 Cup butter, softened to room temperature
2 Eggs


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.


Mix ingredients until combined.


Drop spoonfuls of cookie batter onto baking sheet about two inches apart.

Bake for 10-12 minutes.

Cool.