DESSERTS!!

Ok so since making that blog post about how all I want to do is cook, I have made few things, but being a ditz I didn't take any pictures of it! I have made spaghetti stuffed braided bread, Texas style lasagna, chicken penne pasta, chocolate chip cookies (yes my famous ones!!), Forgotten Kiss Cookies, single serving mug brownie. Yes sounds like a lot, but really the Texas style lasagna I made almost a month ago, but I just froze it and stuck it in the oven this week (but it is one of my favorite meals!). The chicken penne pasta was delicious, and so easy to make that I made 2 dishes at the same time and froze the second one, it was so good and such a hit with my roommates that I think that we will be eating it again next week! The spaghetti stuffed bread wasn't my favorite, my roommate really likes to make bread, so she wanted to use her own bread, anyways I may try to make it again sometime, but it certainly wasn't a favorite. I can always tell when something is good, my roommates eat it all up very quickly. Now before you think oh what horrible roommates that eat all your food, no we share food, we all split the cost, so it is ok that they are eating my food!
My roommates are very sweet, and so therefore never say something doesn't taste good, I think they don't want to hurt my feelings. I will freely admit if I don't like something, I don't think that makes me a bad cook, or anything it's just not every recipe is going to be a golden one, and I am going to make mistakes, and lots of them... I am no professional chef by any means!
So anyways, today I made two desserts, one was really good (in fact I'm still eating it) and the other one was a major royal flop! I will share both recipes with you!

The first one was the Forgotten Kiss Cookies, for the recipe click here I thought they would be so delicious, I mean how can you go wrong with mini m&ms and a Hershey kiss? Well those things were delicious, and the chocolate drizzle on top was oh so good as well, it was the dough I wasn't crazy about! I followed the directions perfectly, and the dough just wasn't good at all. I think if I ever make these again, I will just use my own cookie dough recipe and stick a Hershey kiss in the middle! I found this recipe on pinterest and after making them I disliked it so much I deleted it off my dessert board because I didn't want to be tempted to try and make them again!

Here are a couple pictures of the cookies, don't be deceived, they may look delicious, but they really aren't! In fact one of my roommates even agreed with me they weren't very good, when that happens you KNOW they are bad!!



So since those cookies were such a bust (and I still don' know what to do with them, maybe I should give them to someone I don't like :) ?) Anyways I still wanted something sweet and I have been DYING to try a recipe I found (also on pinterest) and it is for a single serving mug brownie, this way you don't have to make a whole pan of brownies, seriously genius!! Well I'm happy to report this experiment went much nicer than the first, I'm still eating my mug brownie, and as stated in the recipe, I think it would be most delicious with a scoop of ice cream, but alas I didn't have any! Here is the recipe for these delicious brownies!

I took a couple of pictures of these brownies, unfortunately the picture doesn't do them justice, because they are oh so good!!



Seriously if you are in the need of a chocolate fix, this should do just the trick! I added a few semi-sweet chocolate chips to mine! Also mine took longer than 1 minute, it took about 2 min 30 seconds. And I think it probably could have gone a bit longer.

The Weekend!!

Well this has been a very exciting weekend! Ok well maybe it hasn't been, but I am very happy with how it has gone down! Friday I was given some VERY exciting news, that I am finally available for an upgrade with AT&T which means I can finally get the new iPhone 4s, unfortuantly they are all sold out around these parts, so I had to order one, but I should be getting it in the next week! Also Harry Potter 7.2 came out yesterday, but I for some reason ordered it on Amazon, which means I probably won't get it until some time next week, maybe I will get both on the same day... that would be a GREAT day!
Well after work I went to a Disney party with Susanna (she is my coworker and we are going to Disney together). We had fun and met two other girls who want to be our roommates, they seem sweet, so I'm getting even more excited about going, just in case anyone was curious I will be in Disney World in 57 days!! And on that note, I will be graduating in 33 days, but who's counting right?
So after that party I came home and ate dinner only to go to my next party (seriously I never do anything, 2 parties in one night is craziness!!) This party was very low key, it was one of my friend's birthday party, it was fun and when I came home I helped my Roommate Melissa move into her own room, since we had 2 roommates move out this past week we have 2 empty rooms, which means we all have our own rooms now! After moving Melissa into her room she mentioned she was willing to help me organize and clean the kitchen, oh my gosh I was so excited! As mentioned in the last post our kitchen is usually a disaster zone, I seriously cringe every time I walk into my apartment and see how messy it is. I had wanted to make some cookies I found on pinterest, but since the kitchen was so messy I didn't even dare. Well with Melissa's help, I knew we could get the kitchen looking good. well since we have so much more room with just four of us we were able to use some of the empty plastic drawers that no one was using and put them in our kitchen, it took us nearly 3 hours and all 4 of us helped a bit, and finally it was cleaned, I mean every drawer cabinet and surface was organized and cleaned. Words can't describe how happy I am whenever I walk into my apartment and see my kitchen now, it is just so beautiful! Oh and to top it all off my roommate Melissa has some really pretty fall decorations so she brought those out now that we have places to put them and we decorated, I contributed my Christmas lights to spruce things up even more!


Here are a few pics of my apartment, I really wish I had gotten some before pics, and during because I don't think you can truly appreciate how bad it was unless you saw what it was like before!!

Here is a pic of my three roommates, sorry it isn't a very good one of any of them! Melissa is on the far left, Lezlie is the one of the far right, and the other Leslie is the one in the middle that you can't see at all!


Here is my Cabinet all spruced up, you can't really see but there are very pretty fall flowers on top!


Here are two shots of the kitchen next to each other, look how pretty and clean it looks!!

And last but not least we cleared off the table and decorated it, our apartment just looks so beautiful now! I'm so happy!!

All I want to do is COOK!!

So I will admit it, I have become a MAJOR pinterest addict. I love going on there and reading all the funny things, looking at the pretty wedding ideas, and of course drooling over all the delicious looking meals, desserts, and other mouth watering foods!! I am OK being a pinterest addict because I don't just sit and stare at all the pretty things, I actually make quite a few of the stuff I see on there.
I have recently re discovered how much I really enjoy cooking. I have a hard time getting into it because sharing an apartment with 5 other girls the kitchen is always a disaster zone (I stay out of there as much as possible). Then when I'm home I don't really feel like the kitchen is mine, so I don't like to cook there either. I say this all the time, but I seriously can't WAIT until I can have my own place, I will be there soon, very soon! Hopefully by summer time I will be in my own apartment (I will probably have at least one roommate, but that is a lot nicer than 5!!). Lately I have been cooking for my roommates, because two of them had crockpots but had no idea how to use them... I LOVE using a crockpot, and the only one I have is a little bitty one that doesn't hold very much food. So my roommates said I could use their crockpots, so I started cooking for them as well! I have this problem I don't know how to cook for just one person, so I buy the food (we split the money later) and I cook it... I ask them to help with cleaning, cause well I'm not their wife, I won't do EVERYTHING for them. I started out making my normal meal, but with the help of pinterest and family members I have expanded my horizons!! There have been a few busts (in my opinion, my sweet roommates never said it was disgusting!).
Well this last weekend I went to my stake relief society's activity and there were several different workshops, one was a meal planning one. This sister showed us how to make 3 really easy meals (well actually 2 meals and one dessert!). The past few days I have been planning what I want to fix for this week for my roommates, and last night I went shopping. Well it struck me, all I want to do is cook. This morning all I was thinking was how much I want to experiment and make cookies, and cakes, and vegetable soup, and meals, and everything else... but I have no reason to make a lot of that stuff, I could make cookies, but I have no reason to so I would end up eating A LOT of them, which is not something I want to do (well maybe I WANT to, but I shouldn't :).
Then it hit me, I want to start a food blog! I probably won't start it right now, and if I do, it will start off really slow for a while. School is still number one for me right now, but in a little over a month I will be DONE with school, so I will have more time to devote to creating a food blog. Also I have the problem of not having my own kitchen, and well I don't have hardly ANYTHING I would need for my kitchen. This Christmas I'm probably only going to ask for kitchen stuff, right now I'm DYING to have a kitchen aide mixer!! I would also LOVE to have pampered chef pots and pans and skillets, food chopper, wooden spoons, casserole dishes, stones, and oh man I could go on for ages!! I'm wishing I could throw myself a party (similar to a bridal shower, without being a bride) and get all this stuff from people! Unfortunately we don't throw a big party for people graduating from college, we do for high school (which isn't a very hard thing to do). Anyways, maybe one day I will have a kitchen full of all the appliances I need!! But little by little I want to start a food blog, so if I'm living near you, and you want to try my delicious foods... maybe a little bribing will work :).
Anyways this is all just a little rambling, but no one reads this blog anyways :)