The cupcakes that failed

Or should I rather say the cookie dough that failed. This week the challenge was Flag Day. My idea was to make plan white cupcakes put some vanilla frosting on them, and the back some sugar cookies decorate them and put them in the frosting. I have well over 100 cookie cutters.

Stump The Chief

So I was listening to the radio the other day and came across this on NPR there is a radio show The Splendid Table (with Lynne Rossetto Kasper) and they did this segment the host has a caller on the line they pick 5 items from there kitchen, she has to make a dish out of them, she can use water, salt, and pepper. She can ask for three other items but can only use them if the caller has the items. Now idk if she makes a request and you don't have it if that still counts as one of the three or not. I would imagine not. It was a lot of fun to listen to they have it available on the site to listen to. I love the idea and will use this as a game a parties! Tell everyone to right down 5 things from there kitchen. And then pair people up who knows we might get some fabulous ideas for dinner.

We had a visitor!

Dingo was all crouching tiger and sniffing at the grill, i saw something move out of the corner of my eye. i have seen snakes around here so i gab the dog and put her inside. look behind the grill and its this cute little thing. we put it in a box and toke her to the closest vet they said that it might not need to be feed at all but they will check it out for a few days before they just release it.  there are more photos after the break.

Fourth of july

so Monday i made the Root Beer. i didn't have a container that was big enough so i used scaled recipe i did a 5/6th version for the container i have. Before you read any further i have to say always be safe with dry ice here are some helpful guidelines.

Garden Pasta Pasta, and Lemon Pepper Shrimp.

(-Mushrooms, Cashews, and Pasta + Couscous, and Bell Pepper)

A while back i had made couscous for Roy he didn't care for it to much thought it was rather dry. i really enjoy it so i was looking around online for recipes. i found this one on fox news. there was a slide show (click link to view). i thought the dish looked good and would do well with couscous.
also we aren't fans of mushrooms so we didn't use them, i used a bell pepper.