Donut Love!!

Cafe Du Monde

Rock House Donuts

Doughnut Planet

Voodoo Doughnuts

So yesterday I was craving donuts from Donut Kingdom and not just any donut, a snicker doughnut. Ummmmmmm. Well while I was talking about obtaining this deliciousness, one of my homies starts talking about some awesome donut shops, THAT ARE NOT HERE. Bummer! But maybe somebody out there has been to these places let me know! Happy Donut Hunting. Ummmmm

I just Love FoodBlogs and cooking!

This post is for my Homie ( and you know you are) So I love Food blogs and have a host of recipes I have used from them. So I am going to post the blogs here so you can check out there wonderful blogs. I get so excited about Food and inspired with the photography on the pages sometimes so I will put some of the recipes if I can find the where exactly I first found them. So homie here is some of my stash I hope you have fun cooking like I have. Love ya!!!

Martha Stewart! Need I say more. I have gotten a whole lot of good recipes and (whispering " only a few I didn't like)
Chicken Piccata ( I make mine a little different then the recipe but it's only because of the chef I use to work with)
Sesame Orange Shrimp ( I haven't tried his one yet)
Spicy Shrimp and Tomato Sauce ( This is one of my Favorites)
Linguine with Shrimp and a White Wine Sauce ( I made this one the other day it was faboulous)

My Tartelette is a beautiful blog. If you like different types of food like goat cheese and french food you would enjoy it a lot, even if not it has interesting recipies and beautiful photography. Also on here blog she has like so many other food blogs you can visit to click here to see that page. I haven't used any of the recipes from this blog but I will. I love it and can't wait to make time to make some of her recipes.
Watermelon and Honeydew Sorbets with Lemongrass Sauce ( Is it wrong that I want to try this its sounds so good)

Butter Flour Sugar This site hasn't been up dated in a minute but there are some great recipes in previous post to check out.
Raspberry Marshmallow ( sounds good to me)
Churros ( Sounds good to me )

Joy the Baker is an awesome website I have made several items from her blog. I just love almost everything she puts up Ooooooo wee.
Shrimp and Grits( Yummy)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes ( OMG this is one of the best chocolate cupcakes I have had. I think she has another one on her some where on her blog)
Berry Meyer Lemon Pancakes( I haven't had the opportunity to try it but it's on my to do list)
Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies ( Yes I made these and they were wonderful I didn't use a peppermint filling I just used powder sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract yummy )
Honey Whole Wheat Pound Cake (This sounds awesome I think I might want to try this this weekend.)

Satisfied, This is a new blog that I discovered like 3 weeks ago and have been lovin it ever since. I have gotten some cool recipes off of this blog that I am going to try.
Pork Chops and Capers ( Ummm I don't eat pork chops really, but this sounded great)
Churros ( This sounds so good too!)
Simple potatoes ( Hey sometimes the best things are so simple)

Oh Steamy Kitchen is great i just found this on too!
Roasted Cauliflower with Bacon and Garlic ( Ok This sounds too good to me for real!)
Bake Parmesan Garlic Chicken Wings ( need I say more)
Warm Spinach Mascarpone ( Whaaaaaa you know that;s good)

La Bella Cook, I just found this one too!

Yes Love and olive oil, This one is awesome! She has recipes and all her travels. Ooooooooo yeah

Well there are obviously more Food blogs to find so if any one finds some cool ones just leave a comment. I will keep ya updated on more foods I try. To be continued....

I am in Cupcake Love

Ok so on Tuesday I went up to my home girls bakery, Bite of your Life and she was introducing her cupcake bar. Think of it more a cupcake artist though. I pick a giant cupcake, icing, toppings, and a filling if I want. Oh my goodness! can I say I was in cupcake love sooooo good. I have been dreaming about ever since I had that cupcake. Her cupcakes are so moist um um ummmmm. Can't wait til pay day I going to get more. Hahahahah

Julie and Julia Blog/ Goodbye October

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So Last post for the month. October 31 2010 I will never see you again, but you have been great. I have been watching my new favorite movie today Julie and Julia. It's about a writer that started a blog in 2002( I didn't even know about blogs in 2002) following her self assigned task of completing Julia Childs book Mastering the art of French cooking. I think it was like 500 so recipes and she wanted to use every recipe through the book in a year and she did it. So the movie was awesome! The Blog is pretty interesting too. So here is a link to the blog. I like reading it and following her as if I followed along in 2002. After a year and a half she stopped blogging on this blog, but I love technology because it is still there to find. Ooooooo Enjoy Julia Project Blog. And Peace out October!

GRADUATION CUPCAKES!!!!

Sooooo my homie at her bakery, Bite of your Life, has made some School spirit cupcakes for graduation. We have 2 universities and a really outstanding community college right her in Tallahassee.  Yes I do bleed orange and green, but still give love to the other schools. Congratulations Graduates....WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, But enjoy some cupcakes on the way.

Girl Baking in Converse!!!

Soooooooooo My little homie that I take to first friday's here in Tallahassee has decide to get her hustle on and start selling her made from scratch baked goods. I bought some the other day....Can I say delish!!

So these are chocolate cupcakes with marshmellow fondant ( She made herself) with buttercream icing( She made an colored herself.)

So these are Jem cupcakes for me, I kinda forgot to tell her I was giving some of them to another girl for her birthday, by the way the girl loved them and her mother.

Goodies Eatery!!!!!!!

This is what I always get It is soooooo yummy

Ok, I must say I have been over doing it with the salads for the past two weeks. I have been going to Goodies Eatery Downtown Tallahassee for like almost two weeks straight it's so bad they know what I like with out me ordering. I can't help it I love it so much it's so good. Actually I just get salad, but they have soooooo many other good things there so don't let my salad affection deter you from the other delicious food there.

CupCake Wars

As it is know to some and not know to a few, it is a fact that I love, just love, watching the Food network.
I like most things on there, like the Food network Challenges.  I like it when they make it the cake challenges the most, but I will watch all of them. Some new shows have arrived like Chef vs. City  and Cupcake Wars... Ok I thought it was dumb before but I am so loving it now. They have always have an event that they are trying to display their cupcakes. I was laughing because the episode I just saw( Which I have seen like a bunch of times) had four contestants( Well it's always four) and One of the contestants was like being a cupcake snob. I was like for real. Telling the other contestants that they dont' have good icing techiques and picking on the girl who make organic cupcakes and his little assistant being way too snobbish about some cupcakes. Guess what his cupcukes were the first to go. He mean cupcake man take that....lol.

Cupcake Wars Episode

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Homemade Oreos...Part 2

Ok on Sunday I decided to try these suckers again. I lessen the amount of salt and made sure I paid close attention to the baking soda amount too! They came out great! yum yum just like oreos. Recipe found here on Joy the Baker's Blog

FATHER'S DAY

My Granddad is a Laker Fan

So Sunday was father's day. I was going to make my dad some breakfast , but my mom had already taken him to breakfast before I got back from early morning service. Sooooooooo I took him out for dinner. He said he want steak and we went to Outback Steak House. He loved it. He and my mom said they had a bad experience at an Outback they went to out of town, but I think Tallahassee Outback Won them over. After that we went to see my granddaddy. He and my grandma had been sick for the past week so it was good to see them feeling and looking better. He loved his father's day gift. Sunday was pretty awesome!

Homemade Oreos ...Part 1

Yeah I have a lot of blogging to catch you up on. First I got this recipe from Joy the Baker Blog and decided to to bake them this weekend. It was homemade oreos on Friday. Yum Right! But I ended up making them Twice because I made the first batch and they were awful. But the second batch came out AWESOME.

I kinda had all the ingredients at home already so I didn't have to go out and buy anything, well white chocolate

The mistakes were made here. I followed the recipe except when I put a teaspoon of baking soda instead of a 1/2 teaspoon. Yess this did mess up the batter and the cookies were awful. I think the recipe called for too much salt also.

For the most part this was an easy recipe to follow. No weird ingredients and it seem like it would only take like an hour or an hour and half to finish

This dough was like ugh to work with, it was like a fudge consistency, it was not fun it was too soft

This was tough the parchment move all over the place

Ok I am not going to go on and on about this, but I hate these things. They are biscuit cutters from walmart. They were plastic and three were in the pack when I say each cutter had a rubber band around it... it's ridiculous to try and get them free they were plastic and the rubber bands are rubber and not a good combination, we could barely get it open. Sigh I digress.

Don't be fooled they were impossible to get out of the mold.

They look Pretty

This isn't pretty. So apparently I didn't make the filling right too it was so goopy and soupy.

None the less I ate them and they were nasty, they were salty and weird tasting, Messy night yes and I was not going out like that.... to be continued

Chocolate and Peanut Butter

Thanks for you assistance mama

Ummmmm dark cupcakes

Soooooo Baker J.R. Cofield is on the loose. So last night about 9:30pm I decided to make these chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing. ( I know I know peanut butter, but it is was really good it taste like a peanut butter cup but not sicking sweet it was just right) What's cool is that this chocolate cup cake was sooo different then the other ones, but it was so rich. Ummmmm I can't seem to find the recipe on stephaine's kitchen. Hhaahaha that means I have two peanut butter cupcake recipes. I the one I used was from joy the baker and here it is : Peanut butter cupcakes
Here is the one from Stephanie's Kitchen also.