Guess What Was For Dinner

Italian Breaded Pork Chops, Asparagus, and Mashed Potatoes. This is the type of food that makes life worth living! Try the recipe, it's very tasty-- but be warned-- it makes enough breading for 16 pork chops, not 4.

Girly Ruffle Cake

from Martha Stewart

I eagerly await the opportunity to make this cake, cause oh baby, I'm gonna make this cake. The basic premise is that you fill one piping bag with both white and pink frosting, half and half, so when it's squeezed out it's two-tone. Ruffles made of two-tone frosting will be eye catching and forgiving, as far as piping talent is concerned. And I love the pink! 

Come to think of it, maybe I'll make a blue and white version of this for my baby shower (substitute "baby ruffle cake" in instead of "girly.") Hmmmm. But then, who wants to eat blue frosting? It never looks as appetizing as pink. *sigh* I'll have to think of something else.

Love Linked Cookie Cutters

Found at Fancy Flours

I have fallen in love with a new baking website. Trust me, you'll see a ton of posts from FancyFlours this year-- they have some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen. Awesome, brilliant things that spin my imagination into a whirl: like candy molds for gemstones-- can you say Leprechaun treasure, batman? SWEETNESS.

Scarrf, munch, lip-smack, swallow

*sounds of messy eating continue*

I've discovered that when making a grilled cheese sandwich with dry bread, the best remedy is to use extra butter. :) Finish with a large side of broccoli to ease guilt. *licking fingers, smiling widely* ... mmm scrumptiousness... 

Mmm...Thanksgiving Food

These are my favorites. What are yours?

Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce

Stuffing, Stuffing, and Stuffing.

The bagel that loves you back:

I usually stay away from bagels because they're too hard and flavorless to be worth eating, have 3 or more servings per bagel, and are usually full of empty calories and sugars. French Meadow Bakery's "Hemp Bagels" and I found each other in May, and they're a step forward in bagel-dom.  Though they are a little pricey, I continue to get them on a regular basis. 

A whopping 19 grams of protein, 11 grams of fiber, half the carbs of normal bagels, no added sugars, no yeast, and only 280 calories for the whole bagel instead of the half-bagel serving sizes you usually see, Hemp Bagels are great! You wanna talk whole grain? These babies have 3 servings of whole grains, 9 types of seeds (that you can see in every bite), and lots of good-for-you stuff like sprouted quinoa. Plus they're YUMMY.

Beyond Glaze

Hommina. Beyond Glaze, a doughnut shop in Draper, UT boasts two dozen flavors of... glazed doughnut. With individual flavors like 

raspberry mango,

peach cobbler,

and German chocolate doughnut,

I'm a thinkin' a field trip is in order soon. I gotta get my paws on one! Visit Beyond Glaze.com for a mouthwatering peek.

Guess What Was For Dinner

Sloppy Joe was for dinner. We done eat him up.

I want a burger? I... what?

Thanks for the gift card, Heather. I'm hooked.

I've never understood people saying "I want a burger." Why? If I went for fast-food, I'd much rather have had Arby's (then again, I still might, especially if curly fries are involved), and then there's Taco Bell, anything chicken at Wendy's, and obviously-- Dominoes-- oy, their new recipe far surpasses any other pizza. But want a burger? Meh. Even at a family BBQ there was always something better on the menu. Now thanks to In-N-Out I understand the concept of burger lust. 

The hype surrounding the place originally made me skeptical;  one opened in Orem and was swamped for three months and every Californian in Utah salivated like a zombie when the yellow arrow was visible. Soon after my first In-N-Out sample I began to provide Dylan with excuses to go back for more. Surprisingly, it's not just the food that's different. 

Every surface in an In-N-Out shines with a clean gleam, people working behind the counter are neither slow, stupid, incompetent nor angry, ingredients are surprisingly real, and the taste...hommina. Holding my cheeseburger in hand, I felt like Willy Wonka beside lickable-wallpaper: the cheese actually tastes like cheese! The bun tastes like bread! The meat has seasoning! Fries are made from actual potatoes! The lettuce is crispy, and if you ask for onions they give you an entire onion slice. Mercy!

Much to my surprise, I... want a burger.

Guess What Was For Dinner

Cornbread & Paula Deen's White Bean Chili.

I think the Betty Crocker white bean chili is better, actually. But Paula's favored those with a super-spicy palette, so of course Dylan loved it. :)

I Want Some Challah

 

Today Ben Jehuda Street Bakery must smell so good. I want challah bread. Happy Friday, everybody!

Chocolate

You may not recall this, but I have been staying away from all sugars and yeasts for almost two months now--which yes, means no chocolate--I can't describe the extent of my yearnings for Breyer's chocolate ice cream, however, I recently discovered that Lindt 85% Cocoa chocolate bars have so little sugar in them that I can eat them! Ahahahha! YUM. 

Of course, that's really really dark. Most of you wouldn't be able to stomach it. I still like it though. Mmmm, candy.

Snickerdoodle Ice Cream

Found through OurBestBites

With all the homemade ice cream flavors you can choose from, I think this would be above and beyond any you've chosen before. Think about it! Some caramel drizzle on top.... ohhh. That's more irresistible to me than Homer drooling over a raspberry jelly-doughnut.