Oh! I love that cake. Your making me hungry.

IloveFauns, it wasn't my sister it was my friend.
Here is the last of my Halloween pictures.

lol sorry i had no idea why i post sister. Was the yoshi the green character(the one in my avatar) or it could of been the old version of browser.

this being king koopa

if it were another human it would of been marios brother luigi but i am sure you would know him.

And last week, I made Shadowlander's "Slumguillon" recipe. It was great. Everyone loved it with the exception of Scarlet (she doesn't eat any kind of sausage, except for my homemade beef sausage ).

Scarlet didn't like it?! Ah well, can't win em' all. I'm glad you liked it! I hadn't thought to add ground mustard, but then again I'm culinarily (is that a word?) challenged...would that make it taste kinda...mustardy? Like French's yellow? I made a batch of "slumgullion" last week...the wife (mega-picky eater) will go back for seconds on this stuff and sometimes thirds, and then she asks for leftovers to bring to work. She almost never asks for leftovers of anything. *sigh* if there was just a way to get around the potato peeling...it takes me about 45 minutes to peel them and dice them up. All in all pretty basic recipe...*wonders if he should share his family's sacred secret recipe for crepes*

l love your style of recipe writing. It is much more entertaining than most recipes.

I love food and I find it dissapointing that most recipes for great food tend to be kind of emotionless. When you're making a great, hearty meal it should be something that gets you excited as you read it...like an adventure story for your taste buds with the meal being the payoff.

You learned different food groups than I did.

Well, to my count there's about what...roughly 50 food groups out there to choose from, including (but not limited to) the Meat group, Cheese group, Rabbit Food group (carrots and celery), Pizza group, Pizza Toppings group, Hot Sauce group, Microwave group (these include frozen burritos and Hot Pockets), the Icky Sauce and Dressing group (mayonaisse, French dressing, etc.) and the immortal Potato group. What do they teach children in schools these days?

I think you should be able to handle biscuits and gravy.

Gravy has a real harsh reputation about it and most cooks will tell you it's super easy to mess it up. Sawmill gravy (the type one puts on biscuits for breakfast) seems to be on the easy side by most reports, but it still makes me nervous...so for now I'll probably get my Biscuits and Gravy (part of the Gravy group, btw) at the local IHOP.

ILF, my friend had Mario and some green character on the top of her wedding cake instead of a bride and groom.

Was the yoshi the green character(the one in my avatar) or it could of been the old version of browser this being king koopa.

My first guess would be Yoshi, but now that you mention it it could also be Koopa. Nothing cooler than two video game characters doing battle on a cake, yes? Then again it could also be one of those man-eating plant things that live in those flowerpots. But my guess is Yoshi.

all those cakes look good *yum*

yesterday we made coconut pie! We make it fairly often. Here's the recipe if anyone's interested. We make twice as much, do twice the coconut, and do 1 and 1/3 times the flour. it makes it a little thicker and more coconut-y and delicious

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paul ... index.html

For some reason this quote made me think of this thread (and one poster to it in particular. )
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw

I love food and I find it dissapointing that most recipes for great food tend to be kind of emotionless. When you're making a great, hearty meal it should be something that gets you excited as you read it...like an adventure story for your taste buds with the meal being the payoff.

Shadowlander, may I present you to The Pioneer Woman Cooks? Don't let the name give you cooties; her style (and food!) appeals to guys and girls. She has the most fantastic stuff on there, and I love just reading the recipes, even though I've only made one or two things she's posted. Although, the stuff I did make was DELISH. I credit PWC with giving me the inspiration and confidence to make my fabulous chicken soup. All chicken soup I made before was bland and bleh, but now it's amazing and I make it all the time.

Anyway, I figured posting PW's site on here would be appropriate for a Cooking thread. And if you want some great cookie, cupcake and cake decorating, get thee to Bakerella right now! Her stuff will make you drool and be in awe of her talent at the same time.

I'm engaged to be married in one year (next March) and am planning my wedding. Neither of us are well off and neither are our families, so we are cutting costs any way we can without compromising the quality of the wedding. One of the ways we're reducing costs (plus giving me the chance to do something I've always dreamed of doing!) is that I will be designing my own wedding cake.

I envision a design with 4 layers, with garlands of frosting roses and petals swathing the top and side in a graceful, natural pattern, dropping to the base. I don't want to use all white, but I don't want intense colors, so I plan to use a pale pink and pale green for the flowers and white for everything else, including possibly white plastic pearls in a swirl along the edge. The base cake will have a gauzy bow in a silky, pale pink.

The only similar cake I've made was the three layer cake I made for my parents' 25th anniversary a few years ago, featured in the photo below. It was a hot evening, and the cake collapsed slightly, into the rather triangular shape you see. This time around I'll have a base to work with the will keep the weight of each layer from impacting the others.

The cake is BEAUTIFUL!! I totally wish I knew how to make roses!!

For some reason this quote made me think of this thread (and one poster to it in particular. )
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw

That's a good quote!

Congratulations, RamanduDaughter! What a pretty cake! Great job on the roses. I wish I could make roses. That sounds lovely.

SnowAngel, what kind of a cookie press do you have? We can't seem to find a good one. The disk that pushes the dough down keeps breaking off. I think we have other problems too but I'm not sure.

We have the Wilton Cookie Pro™ Ultra Cookie Press, but it's been discontinued. It's the only one we've had, so I don't know what to recommend. Sorry, wish I could help you more.

And last week, I made Shadowlander's "Slumguillon" recipe. It was great. Everyone loved it with the exception of Scarlet (she doesn't eat any kind of sausage, except for my homemade beef sausage ).

Scarlet didn't like it?! Ah well, can't win em' all. I'm glad you liked it! I hadn't thought to add ground mustard, but then again I'm culinarily (is that a word?) challenged...would that make it taste kinda...mustardy? Like French's yellow?

Scarlet's kind of weird sometimes. No, it adds a kind of spicy favor. If it had a mustard favor like French's yellow, then I would be the one of the last people to use it.

I recently made Raspberry-Blueberry Sorbet. It was delicious. We have a juicer/homogenizer so it's really easy to make. I just ran frozen berries through the juicer. I made a pie crust, rolled it out, and broke it into pieces(it's a fast alternative to shortbread). I served the sorbet at my younger siblings' tea party in a bowl with a piece of pie crust and sprinkle of sugar. It just need some whipped cream.

Have a church dinner next week (again) and it's my turn to make dessert to take. And I'm trying to decide which kind of cupcakes to make - I think I'm going to make green buttercream frosting (a nod to St. Patrick). I was thinking about strawberry-flavored, but think that should have pink frosting. Maybe I should just make vanilla cupcakes and color them green. What I really should make is Irish cream, but I do not have a whiskey-flavored extract.

SnowAngel

*peeks into the thread*

Hello all!

I don't believe that I've posted in this thread since the forum switchover, but I love to cook! Not that I'm great at it, but with a recipe, you can't usually go wrong.
Anyway, today I made rice crispy treats for the first time. (I'm not saying that's a great accomplishment, but it was fun ) I used this recipe, if anyone's interested.
Picture:
(you can't really tell from that picture, but they're pink. ...and I made them for my nephews...yeah. We had some pink marshmallows left over from Valentine's Day, so I needed to use them. )

I think that flambeau and I are going to make Hamburger Helper for supper (which is ground beef, corn, pasta noodles, and cheese sauce. Yum!). It's a favorite and fun to make, so I'm looking forward to it.
We're having three of my nephews staying with us from tonight until Monday, so we've been trying to plan some menus that they will like.

SnowAngel, have you decided what kind of dessert you'll be making for the church dinner?

That's all for now.

~Djaq

We have the Wilton Cookie Pro™ Ultra Cookie Press, but it's been discontinued. It's the only one we've had, so I don't know what to recommend. Sorry, wish I could help you more.

Don't worry about. I think we might actually have the same one. My mom says we have one that works. I must have given up on our cookie presses too soon. We are always looking for one with all metal parts.

I think that flambeau and I are going to make Hamburger Helper for supper

I made Hamburger Helper for our dinner tonight - only it was a Tomato Basil Penne one.

Hamburger Helper? Chili-Mac for the win!

All Hail Chili-Mac!

^I don't like Hamburger Helper

We had a yummy sundried tomato pesto tonight. My younger sister made it. My sisters and I do most of the cooking in our house, but our mom usually tells us what to make

How does everyone else make Hamburger Helper? I'm just curious because I don't really have a recipe for it and I know there are boxed versions you can get. The Hamburger Helper that I make is from scratch. Last night, I used ground sausage and ground beef in it because we didn't have quite enough beef and we had plenty of sausage (my Mom's idea). It turned out really good!

^I don't like Hamburger Helper

What kind of Hamburger Helper are you thinking of? Anyway, I'm sorry to hear that you don't like it.

I think that I'm going to make granola a bit later today. I'm just waiting for my Mom to come back from the store with some of the ingredients that I need.
I made cupcakes earlier, but they're not decorated (yet?).

What is everyone having for supper? (do I sound nosy? Well, this is a cooking thread, so it fits, right? ) I think that we're getting Subway subs...so no cooking.

~Djaq

What kind of Hamburger Helper are you thinking of? Anyway, I'm sorry to hear you don't like it.

I was thinking of the boxed kind. But I don't like the made-from-scratch kind either. It's like goulash right? With cooked tomatoes and hamburger meat and such? *shudders* I HATE cooked tomatoes

Tonight for supper we're having leftover cabbage soup. My parents are going out for dinner so we're just gonna eat leftovers .

Oh I need to make granola too. My mom's been bugging me about it for days

How does everyone else make Hamburger Helper?
I'm just curious because I don't really have a recipe for it and I know there are boxed versions you can get. The Hamburger Helper that I make is from scratch.

When I think of Hamburger Helper, I think of the boxed kind so that is what I made last night. I try to keep down the number of times I make things out of a box. I prefer making things from scratch when I have the time. I do make other recipes with hamburger that I don't use a box for. When we buy hamburger, we cook it all up at once and freeze it for use in recipes. (We make it into 12 oz packages and use that instead of a pound in recipes). That way we don't have to worry about the hamburger going bad before we use it and we can just grab a bag when we need it.

What is everyone having for supper? (do I sound nosy? Well, this is a cooking thread, so it fits, right? )

I don't think you sound nosy. I'm trying a new recipe for Pasta Primavera tonight.