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Hi all!
Sorry to not post any recipes this weekend, Mr. CK forgot to have me video and photograph EVERYTHING I made. HOWEVER I took some after pictures. of the pumpkin pie frosting and the apple cake I made. Would you like to see them? Duh, you totally do.

mmmmm pie.

super whipped pumpkin pie filling. No crust!

Sharlotka!

you know you want some.

To make the pie, I followed the recipe on the back of the pumpkin puree can, and for the frosting  (which i topped Chocolate cupcakes with) i just made the pie without the crust and whipped like it was on fire.

The Sharlotka is super easy. But I will post an actual video of me making it some time. I really want to, but for now, Enjoy the pictures and pretend you're eating the yumminess too!

~SD

UPDATE!

Hey all! It's the weekend! expect something awesome from me this weekend. I am thinking pumpkin pie. or maybe mini pies in regular muffin tins this time. I also have quidditch on saturday and sunday! One more week until the world cup everyone! That means that I will be taking pictures of FFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDD! most likely pizza. But I will post photos of a bunch of other stuff too! <3
I'll post something awesome,

~SD

P.S. two of my friends decided to be funny at lunch today. There's a video.

Don't give up on me yet...

This weekend has been insane so far. And it's not even over yet. I promise that I will have a great recipe that was tested and truly good up after this midterm and paper. I haven't decided what it's going to be yet, but I am sure that I will find something fun that CK and I can make together... Who knows, I might even make a video and link you guys to it. We'll see. It all depends on how much work I have to do this week. Please, hang in there!

~SD

sorry :(

No new recipes or pictures this week. Sorry guys. I have a midterm on tuesday and i have two quizzes this week. BUT I promise to come up with something super special for the wednesday AFTER my midterm. Oh, I forgot, I also have a paper due on tuesday. sigh.

foodgawker

So, I submitted many many photos to my new food love, foodgawker.com. I submitted my mini aple pi recipe 3 times. 3 TIMES. they don't like the composition of my photo first, then they think that it's too dark, then when I fix that photo they say no because of composition again. WTF? There are so many photos that they accepted of other people's that are worse than mine. If anyone reading this is taking pictures, please try to submit it too? it's ridiculous that they won't accept my pictures.

~SD

Cheese-Its and Goldfish

I would like to start this post be saying that I found thew recipe for Cheese-its at http://www.petitekitchenesse.com/2011/10/16/homemade-cheez-its/#comment-3756. You should all check out Carey's blog since I'm not going to post the recipe here. It's hers. I just wanted to try it. and I did.

They're so pretty and they're fluffy! I hope that they get extra crispy.

Also, Carey's photos are WAAAAAY more amazing. So just go to her site.

So... it's pasta

I made pasta for lunch for the two of us. it was an entire pound for 2 people. with cheese tomatoes and basil. but it was sooo good.

I used 1 box of pasta shells
12 cherry tomatoes halved
1 fresh mozarella ball (large)
a lot of basil
balsamic vineagar

cook the pasta and chop the tomatoes and rip up the basil, or chiffonade it if you'd like. once you drain the pasta put everything into the pot and pour as much balsamic as you'd like on top. It's bomb. and simple. and Pretty fast. It took me just the time it took to cook the pasta to get everything ready. :)

First food post: Apple Pie

First things first: CK and I made apple butter and it will be ready in 3 hours.
next: I had this post all written and then as I was trying to add a caption to a picture, the page reloaded. so this is a second go.

We made the cutest mini apple pies and they were DELICIOUS.

Mini Apple PI


Ingredients:
1.5 apples
1 pre-made pie dough ( I'm lazy, ok?)
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp honey
2 tsp cinnamon
1 egg
a tiny bit of sugar (for topping lattice)

Directions:

1. preheat your oven to 735 degrees and grease a mini muffin tin.
2. peel and cut the apples into about 1/4 inch. unroll the pie dough and cut rounds to fit into a mini muffin tin. You will not get 24, and should not re-roll the uncut  pastry for another piece, the dough will be chewy. you should get 13 rounds, maybe 14. place your dough rounds into the pan.
3. dock or poke a few holes in your pie crust and bake at 375F for 7  minutes.
4. melt butter, sugar, honey, vanilla extract and the cinnamon in a pan and ass the apples. cook until there is almost no liquid left in the pan. spoon apple mixture into the pie shells. you will have some left over dough and you can cut it into little lattice pieces for the top of the pie. 
5. bake for 12-14 minutes at the same temperature and when they're done, enjoy.

CK and I worked together today and the pies turned out awesome.

Next post: goldfish and Cheese its!!!

Tomorrow's the Day!

So, I'm going to call my love CK from now on, and I will just be SD, or nomnomnom, depends on how I feel.

Anyway, yesterday I went shopping and came home with 12 apples (8 granny smith, 4 Fuji) a bunch of types of cheese, flour, sugar, pie dough, pasta, avocados, tomatoes, half and half, and kosher salt. CK and I will be making cheese-its and goldfish together while I get my apple butter on in my slow cooker. I might also make some handheld apple pies. But I am thinking that I will go buy some lollipop sticks and make pie pops. OR I can make MINI APPLE PIES in my mini muffin pan! We'll see what the man thinks. I might also make a special surprise, but I should ask CK to get 3 more apples for it, do you think he'll do it?

I'm really excited to get back to baking. It's been months since I've done anything fun like a baking marathon.

can you guess what this is?

Peace homeskittles,

~SD