Posted on May 30, 2009 by geekgirlie
Taste of Summertime Pound Cake
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1/4 teaspoon salt
Zest of 1 orange
5 large eggs
3 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup Jarritos pineapple soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange extract
Instructions
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup tube pan. Combine flour, salt and orange zest in a bowl. With a mixer, cream butter and [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2009 by geekgirlie
I tried the five-minute chocolate mug cake for the first time today. It was really yummy and made a large mug full of cake. I followed the recipe verbatim except I was concerned with the lack of leavening. I added about 1/2 tsp. of baking powder with the dry ingredients.
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by geekgirlie
Since we are getting a lot of eggs from our chickens, now, we thought we’d make something to take to this month’s family pot luck dinner that would use a lot of eggs.
So, here is my take on…
Quiche Lorraine
makes 2 9-inch pies
Ingredients
2 9-inch deep dish pie crusts
8 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
4 green onions, [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2009 by geekgirlie
Every month, my family has a pot luck dinner. February’s dinner was held this past Friday and I tried a new recipe on my family: Sweet Potato Cobbler. No one in my family had heard of it before but we enjoyed it.
I used canned sweet potatoes for this because that is what I had on hand. [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2008 by geekgirlie
I cut open a yellow pepper when making chow chow relish, and this is what I saw.
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Posted on June 30, 2008 by geekgirlie
A lady I work with got married over the weekend without telling anyone what she had planned. To those of us who had worked with her for a while, this came as a big shock.
We decided that we should do something special in honor of her big day and since she had been asking for [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by geekgirlie
This is my second real cake-decorating attempt. This time, my mom and I decided to pick out an easy motif from my book. We plan to get more complicated as we get more experience.
Please click the thumbnails to see larger images.
The petals of the first flower before I added the trumpet and the detail.
The petals [...]
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