Every so often, some friends and I get together and do little cooking classes. This time we did an Indian class at my Sheila’s house in Ann Arbor, on a beautiful game day Saturday afternoon! 
FUN. My friend, Sangeeta, from back in the days when I worked at Organic, was teaching the class. It was great to see her again after so many years! We started out making a ton of different appetizers that all started out from the same potato/cilantro/spice mixture. We got to see how many variations of an Indian dish could be made from a simple base of potatoes. We also made some chicken dishes and some other vegetarian dishes and curries.
I love these days spent in the kitchen with great friends. It’s so completely relaxing, and eases the mind of all of life’s little stresses. We talk about love, and children, and work, and dreams. It’s just really special to have friends that share in your interests and your life, coming together to make an amazing meal together, and learn about foods that I could have never made from a recipe or a cook book.
Everyone should definitely try to get some of their good friends together, in a kitchen for a Saturday. It will for sure cure anything that ails you.
October 5th, 2008
I love baking up cute things for my niece and nephew’s birthdays. This past weekend was no exception. My niece, Heather, and her brother, Christian, celebrated their 9 and 10th birthdays this past weekend. They LOVE dogs, so I decided that these super cute pupcakes (from the book “Hello Cupcake!”) were definitely in order.
My only thought, was that it would have made things a whole lot easier to actually use a real piping bag with real decorating tip. The instructions in the book call for Ziplocs for everything…but I found them really difficult to use. But at the end of the day, they still came out pretty cute.
In fact, my six year old nephew jack, was so impressed that he shyly asked if he could take “the whole box of puppies home”…I asked him what price he would pay…and after a full couple minutes of deep thought, he answered…”twenty dollars.” I told him a kiss on the cheek and a hug would be payment enough. He seemed happy with that.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTIAN AND HEATHER!!!
September 29th, 2008
So…I was flickring through some old flickr pics today, and I found a couple of cute cupcake friends that I had made a while back, and thought I would share them.
The monkey and pig cupcakes were for my nephew Nathan’s birthday party last September, and the bunny cupcake (below), was from Easter of this year.
So fun!
August 29th, 2008
This Saturday, I decided it was time to make the infamous bakerella’s cupcake pops!.
It was a long process, filled with some lumpy chocolate debacles…but after all was said and done…they came out pretty great.
I used mint chocolate for the bottom chocolate coating, and colored white chocolate for the pink tops. Inside, there is a delicious devil’s food cake filling. YUM!
If you have some time, and you love to bake up tiny cute things…I highly recommend giving these a try.
Thanks, Bakerella!
August 25th, 2008
My brother gave me some fresh yellow squash from his garden the other day. They were calling out to me, so I decided to make a healthier alternative to my Grama Dee’s infamous buttered squash. This is what I decided on. Simple and tasty. Yum!
Roasted Yellow Squash
Recipe from Julie Foxworthy
INGREDIENTS:
Yellow Squash
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS:
Wash and slice your squash into 1/4″ slices
Lay them flat on a jelly roll pan
Drizzle olive oil over the squash, add salt and pepper to taste, then flip them over and repeat.
Bake at 350º for about 20 minutes, or until desired doneness.
Serve and enjoy!
August 24th, 2008
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