This has been a crazy week! I have been working my hardest to get everything turned in for my study abroad trip to France. Today, I turned in my scholarship application and essay! I am one step closer! :D I still have to translate my letter of intent into French, and then I am going to Normandy! Now, onto my cooking adventures:
Last week, I was buying spices to fill up my new spice jars when I came across some vanilla beans! I had never used them and vanilla is my favorite flavoring, so I bought a couple. A couple of days ago, I decided to give them a try in cupcakes. I started mixing the batter and deseeded my bean, as seen here:
After deseeding, I added them to my batter and finished adding all the other ingredient. I could tell the batter didn’t look right... It was a new recipe I was trying out. It was really liquidy and had a funny color. Needless to say, I was right. I had to throw all 20 cupcakes in the trash... Oh, well. You can’t win them all!
The next day, I made lasagna for dinner, which I have done before. However, for dessert, I made Chocolate Chip and Walnut Blondies! I thought it would be like making brownies without the cocoa, but surprisingly enough, it was a lot different. I followed a recipe that I found on Allrecipes.com, which is my favorite website, and they turned out amazingly well! I doubled the batch and made a cookie sheet full of Blondies for my co-workers and friends.
Tonight, I wanted to do something not so dessert-y for my new thing, so I made PANINIS! Usually, it requires a panini press, but I ghetto rigged one out of a cast-iron skillet. I started my cooking up my turkey breast with some seasoning, cooked my turkey bacon, prepped the sandwich with some Pesto and Provolone, then put it all on my skillet. To press the sandwich like a panini press, I heated my cast-iron skillet on the stove, then I pressed with all my might on the sandwich while it was in my regular skillet. After a couple of minutes, I flipped the panini and did it again. Once that was done, here was the final product:
Turkey Pesto Panini :D
Sorry for not blogging yesterday, but I promise I will make it up to you all very soon! Also, starting next week, I will be posting some of my recipes on this website for my readers and fans to try out themselves! Also, I am trying Creme Brulee soon :D This will be exciting! I leave you now with my pride and joy, my spice drawer:
Until next time, have a good night and tomorrow!
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