A Feast!

I LOVE cooking, and not just throwing some cans and boxes together (although there is a place for that, too!). Monday night I whipped up some turkey burgers:





Yes, I use a scale for accuracy! Mixed in chopped red peppers and white onion. Spices...I think this time was garlic powder, black pepper, salt, dry mustard and some red pepper. Then a squirt of yellow mustard and one of caesar dressing. Yeah, that's how I roll!

Whipped up some sweet potato fries (peeled, 'chipped' as Yorkie would say, then olive oil, kosher salt and fresh black pepper, then paprika) and brewed some decaf iced tea.




YUM! We had some new 'cheese' from Borden - Cheddar with Applewood Bacon and you could really taste the bacon! I mixed mayo and ketchup on one side, then the cheese and lettuce on the other, toasted bun. Matt likes just cheese and ketchup.

One of the blogs I have started reading is Smitten Kitchen and she just has the BEST most gorgeous recipes, and she also hung out with The Pioneer Woman lately, another of my faves. But yesterday Deb posted a recipe for Raspberry Buttermilk Cake so I threw some lemon juice in my milk and got going!




What a great end to the evening!

And because we all want to be more like Bezzie, here's my own kitty thermometer:



It's over 80 here today (and yesterday, and tomorrow) and poor Jack is home without AC. Last year they didn't turn it on until sometime in June.... :(

Baking Bonanza

I'm not used to taking food photos like Bezzie is, but here goes:













Pumpkin rolls. Very mild flavor, but yummy nonetheless. Pretty color, as well!






Kolacky dough, totally forgot the finished pic since I finished them at my mom's house. Why yes, pound of butter and brick o cream cheese. Add flour. Finito. I used apricot preserves on them, turned out so good and got many compliments at our work potluck today =)






Double Chocolate Treasures, a very old Quaker oats recipe that we make every single year. I love it. I chopped up bags of Hershey Bliss milk chocolates instead of buying semi-sweet chocolate chips. Also used them for the Muddy Buddies.






This is just how I roll in my tiny kitchen. You can see the mixer with the butter for kolacky, waiting to soften so I can cream it. The red bowl is the chocolate treasures waiting for the cookie sheets to come out of the oven. Chocolate chip and sugar cookies on the cooling racks (those were Betty Crocker mixes, not too bad!)
So I used free chocolates, and the Chex cereal and BC mixes from all my Jewel deals. Also made a bundt cake with free items as well. Lovin the deals this holiday season!