HEY EVERYONE!! I know It's been a ridiculously long time since I've posted anything on here and I'm sorry about that. And I've thought of every excuse in the book to keep me from doing my blog. BUT i am back :)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

OK so for these Chocolate Chip Cookies.. they turned out horrible.. but i promised that i would put good and bad recipes on here so you can see my journey of getting better with baking and cooking. These cookies turned out bad enough that i dont even have the recipe anymore... im pretty sure we threw it out.

so im just going to show you the pictures and what indgedients i can remember..

Obviously you start with butter first..

And then you add Brown Sugar and White Sugar

Then you add eggs, and vanilla

Next you add flour and corn starch sifted.. and THIS step was suppossed to be why these cookies are so fantastic. Because of the corn starch, but for me they didnt seem to work

I dont know how it works for you guys making cookies.. but for me when they are in this stage they hold so much promise. they look like perfect little balls of dough so excited to become cookies. I make a little wish that these cookies will be something wonderful and stick them in the oven with all the love i have and hope that i've done all I can to make them great! 

And then.. they turn out like this.. this recipe was suppossed to make them thick and chewy and yummy. and instead they just turned out flat and undercooked. no matter how much longer i kept them in the oven the sides just kept getting crisper and crisper and the insides just stayed doughy. I had so much hope for these cookies and it wasn't enough. BUT I am NOT giving up and I WILL make great Chocolate Chip Cookies one day :) thank you for going on this journey of the lost cookies with me and I will show you better cookies next time!



Oatmeal Carmeletas

This recipe was super yummy!! It is actually my Aunt Shana's mom's recipe that we have had for a long time. so a family recipe this time. I made it a couple days ago and it has taken awhile for me to put it up because my pictures were giving me hard time. BUT here it is :) :

Crust: 1C flour

           1C oats

           3/4 C brown sugar

           1/2 t soda

           1/4 t salt

           3/4 C butter

you mix all the ingred. and press 1/2 into a pan bake at 350 for 10 mins. you add the filling,

Filling: 1 C choco chips

            1/2 C nuts

            3/4 C carmel ice cream topping

            3 T flour

and then you sprinkle the rest of the crust on top of the filling and you bake it for 15- 20 mins.

I used 1 C of these carmel bits instead of the carmel topping and flour. I liked the taste of them, but i would suggest softening them up before adding them, because they never really melted enough. but they still tasted good! i mean we didn't have to like throw it out or anything. 

TADA!! finished product 

I decided to do a separate post for my cookies :). So these DIDN'T turn out as good as I wanted to for my first baking post.. but they turned out ok. I used double the butter instead of using both butter and shortening.   

Snicker-Doodles

for Snicker- Doodles you will need:

1/2 C butter

1/2 C short.

1 1/2 C sugar

2 eggs

2 3/4 C flour

2 t crm of tartar

1 t soda

1/4 t salt

First step is cream butter, short. and sugar

Add eggs and mix well

i sieved my dry ingredients  

 and then you add it to your wet ingred.

 Roll into balls and roll in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.

Bake at 400 for 8 to 10 mins and presto!

I think because of the extra butter and no short. they turned out flat.. but they still tasted good :) 

Ok! so my first day of cooking for my blog went pretty good. I made taco soup and Snicker-doodles. I made a mess of the kitchen, But I cleaned up after :) because I am a good daughter. And plus my mom didn't have to cook dinner tonight which I'm sure she likes to not have to do. I was happy to do it, because Taco Soup is one of my FAVORITE things to cook. Which when I think about it is weird because i'm not much of a soup person in the first place.. I wouldn't usually choose soup to eat. But I like Taco Soup.. ANYWAY! enough talk now for some pictures of my cooking adventures tonight. 

Taco Soup 

First you brown some Ground Beef. Sometimes I like to use Ground Turkey, its better for you and I never taste a difference.

After that is all good and browned you add V-8 juice. I like to use this rather than just tomato juice.

Then you add beans and corn

The seasonings you will add are Taco seasoning, chili powder, and cumin

 I add about 2 Tablespoons of the Taco seasoning and chili powder to start with and add more if I feel like it needs it. and i add about 1 to 2 teaspoons of the cumin. But you can add as much as you like.

And the end result is a yummy bubbly mess of goodness. We usually eat it with chips, sour cream, and avocados. TRY IT and enjoy :)

WELCOME

This is the 3rd time I've made a blog.. and something always happens, I forget my password, I forget my username.. BOTH.. I never know what to write so I do three or four posts and then I lose motivation..etc. etc.
But, this blog has a purpose! so I am hoping that it will NOT fall by the wayside as a lack of motivation or remembrance. SO! I invite you to come along with me on my journey of figuring out WHAT I want to do with my future  and how I want to start it. You can watch and participate in my exploration of my interests and what cooking I do along the way. I know I love to cook and bake, but HOW much do I love it is the question... THE JOURNEY BEGINS..