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| Yes, straight from the spoon. |
I am eating Nutella for breakfast because the commercials tell me it's part of a wholesome breakfast. Dont the commercials always tell the truth? Dont worry, I dont really believe it. And, besides, I read the label. It's definitely a candy product and shouldnt be eaten at breakfast. That didnt stop me though. Yes, I am working on eating better and exercising. Sometimes, lazy takes control though.
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See my awesome new colorful
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I forgot to do laundry on Friday, my assigned (by me) laundry day. Why did I forget? I was working on that dumpster desk all day! (pictures will be coming in a day or two when I finish the primer!) I did a couple of loads on Saturday...or rather I delegated the loads to my son and husband. Because my husband doesnt have enough to do with 2 hours of commuting to his full time job 5 days a week and full time school schedule. The good news is that no one had to wear dirty underwear or socks today. Yes, that happens more often than I like to admit.
So, I was making homemade Whoopie Pies for the family dinner yesterday. They were so good! Here's the recipe for the chocolate ones.
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2003/01/whoopiepies And here's the recipe for the vanilla ones.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/berry-cream-whoopie-pies-recipe I just used the fluff recipe from the chocolate page. Then I divided up the fluff and stirred in new flavors...like orange (orange extract and rind), nutella, peanut butter, fresh strawberries (which looks weird after sitting for a while since the berries "bleed"), mint (extract again), and left some plain. They were a huge hit with the adults. The orange fluff with either vanilla or chocolate cookies was the best. Peanut butter was awesome too. But that isnt the story...
I had been looking at cooking blogs all morning looking for good whoppie pie recipes. Every blog had a picture perfect kitchen before and after the baking session. As I stood in my post
apocalyptic whoopie pie baking session, my kitchen looked nothing like those other ones. Yeah, I know...clean as you go along, blah blah blah. Well, with having to rotate the baking sheets every 5 minutes and getting the next baking sheets ready to go (the one recipe said the cakes would flatten out if not baked right away...and I wanted fluffy cakes with my fluff!), and making the different flavored fluffs, cleaning as I went along wasnt really an option. It was more of a maelstrom of baking and fluffing with powdered sugar and flour flying all over from my mixer and marshmallow cream sticking to everything within a 3 foot radius.
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| After I started the clean up. Yes, I said after. |
So I was talking with my SIL about blogs and how everyone looks so perfect all the time. I had even found a blog where the blogger was admiting to not being as perfect as her blog suggests and as proof, she posted a picture of dirty dishes in her sink....like 10 of them. Really? So, that got us thinking. Maybe I need to revive my cooking blog and call it "Cooking for Realz" (added the Z so I wouldnt be confused with that Food Network star) or something and show what cooking really looks like for a lot of people. It never looks like commercials, or tv shows, or cooking blogs. I blame June Cleaver actually....with her fancy pearls and lipstick in the kitchen!
Yeah, I can do better than this. It's one of my "weakness'" that I am working on. It's just really hard! Some may call me lazy, but what do you expect when I spend the majority of my day with a bunch of cats?
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How could I make the bed when Leeroy
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3 comments:
My kitchen is a complete wreck when I'm cooking or canning. And I'm so bad that the rinsed dishes sit in the sink for a week before I do them. There's only me and it seems pointless to do them every day.
I rarely made the bed when I had one as I figured I was just going to crawl right back in it that night. Now I have to sleep in a recliner for my back and I don't even have to think about anything except to change the sheet I throw over it.
There are more important things to do that making beds...like daydreaming!
I don't know what the bottom of my sink looks like. And clearly you can't make that bed - it's being used. I would love to read a blog about real cooking!
Your bed looks like mine, lol. I kick my kids off in the morning though to make the bed and they get right back on within minutes. Despite it being summer I have what I call my usual crowd that likes to sleep in bed with us. My kitchen tends to look the same way after cooking, I always dread the clean up after wards but someone has to do it or it will not get done around here.
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