Wednesday, December 30, 2009

How to make chocolate pies

Process: assumed preparation time total: 30minutes. Actual preparating time: start time: 10:54am. end time: 1:30
                                                   HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE PIES
PART 1: the pre-preparation.
1. Put on a cd, decide the cd I put in isn't actully what I want to listen to and make 2 trips up and down the stairs trying to find the one I want. Decide on Keith and Kristen Getty.
2. Clean up from breakfast.
                                                                    (dirty kitchen)

(clean kitchen)

4. Trip over my littlest brother's abandoned play-dough and decide to clean up after him to avoid further injury.
5. Find my awesome gingerbread apron. Oops, wrong side.

Here we go.

6. Try to remember what I'm going to make...oh yeah, that's right! chocolate pies!
PART 2: preparation
7. Pie crust recipie.
-flour, shortening, done.
-spend 10 minutes looking for the pastry cutter then realize it was already out.
-remember to take my rings off....after I had already started hand-stirring.



-wonder if I should add the salt I had forgotten? decide in the negative.

8. Mix the sugar and cocoa.

9. Roll the dough, ho, ho, ho...oh, wait, that song is for Christmas cookies.  And the shadow at the base of the picture below is from my head. :)

10. Put some of the sugar/cocoa mix in the middle of a circular piece of dogh, put some butter on top, then fold over and close the edges.

Ahhhh...the somewhat finshed product.
11.Bake at 350 for....well...a litte while.

The finished product!

Things I learned:
-be sure the oven is ON before setting the timer, leaving, then coming back 30 minutes later worrying they're burnt and finding that whatever is cooking wasn't actually cooking.
-forgetting salt really doesn't affect the taste of the dough.
-cooking goes much better and more efficiently when I'm not trying to talk to someone and cook.

~On a more serious note, this is a family recipe from my Hungarian great-grandmother.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

What a Promise

The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful-for he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:11-13

Friday, December 4, 2009

Global Cooling...a.k.a. It's SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!

For those who don't believe it can happen in Damon, TX, it's snowing! lots! This has definitely made my day! :) Below are some pictures for you to enjoy... there will be more on my photoblog soon.




And, of course, some self-photography. :)

That's all for now! More later!

How to make chocolate pies

Process: assumed preparation time total: 30minutes. Actual preparating time: start time: 10:54am. end time: 1:30
                                                   HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE PIES
PART 1: the pre-preparation.
1. Put on a cd, decide the cd I put in isn't actully what I want to listen to and make 2 trips up and down the stairs trying to find the one I want. Decide on Keith and Kristen Getty.
2. Clean up from breakfast.
                                                                    (dirty kitchen)


(clean kitchen)

4. Trip over my littlest brother's abandoned play-dough and decide to clean up after him to avoid further injury.
5. Find my awesome gingerbread apron. Oops, wrong side.

Here we go.

6. Try to remember what I'm going to make...oh yeah, that's right! chocolate pies!
PART 2: preparation
7. Pie crust recipie.
-flour, shortening, done.
-spend 10 minutes looking for the pastry cutter then realize it was already out.
-remember to take my rings off....after I had already started hand-stirring.



-wonder if I should add the salt I had forgotten? decide in the negative.

8. Mix the sugar and cocoa.

9. Roll the dough, ho, ho, ho...oh, wait, that song is for Christmas cookies.  And the shadow at the base of the picture below is from my head. :)

10. Put some of the sugar/cocoa mix in the middle of a circular piece of dogh, put some butter on top, then fold over and close the edges.

Ahhhh...the somewhat finshed product.
11.Bake at 350 for....well...a litte while.

The finished product!

Things I learned:
-be sure the oven is ON before setting the timer, leaving, then coming back 30 minutes later worrying they're burnt and finding that whatever is cooking wasn't actually cooking.
-forgetting salt really doesn't affect the taste of the dough.
-cooking goes much better and more efficiently when I'm not trying to talk to someone and cook.

~On a more serious note, this is a family recipe from my Hungarian great-grandmother.

What a Promise

The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful-for he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:11-13

Global Cooling...a.k.a. It's SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!

For those who don't believe it can happen in Damon, TX, it's snowing! lots! This has definitely made my day! :) Below are some pictures for you to enjoy... there will be more on my photoblog soon.




And, of course, some self-photography. :)

That's all for now! More later!

 

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