Elm Streets Last Brat

So I just got done doing my very first Gradient Mani, and here are the results:





Not too bad for my first try. Much better choice than the god awfulness that was earlier today:


Tomorrow Mandi, and I are going to get pedicures and then eat at Panera. Mmmmm Paneraa. My feet are in terrible condition...I need to start doing that vaseline sock thing. Im starting to get tired, but i need to let my nails dry almost completely or else ill get pillow and hair marks in my nails. Kayla (dons sister) found out that she is having a GIRL!!! yessss...everyone hoped she would have a girl. Shes either naming it Emilee (or emily..i dont remember what she decided) or Emma...i vote for Emma. Well thats all i have on my mind right now.

This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. They come out thick and chewy in the middle, and crunchy on the outside.





(yes i know that there arent many chocolate chips in that cookie, but i dont like mine over chocolatey)

Recipe:

2 c. flour
1/2 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar
3/4 c. butter melted MELTEDDD (its best if you use unsalted, but i never do)
1 egg + 1 egg yolk (the extra yolk is important so do not leave it out...or ELSE)
1 T. vanilla
2 c. chocolate chips (i only use 1 cup...or half a bag)

Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt
In a seperate bowl, beat together the sugars,vanilla, and melted butter. Add in the egg and egg yolk, and mix.
Gradually add in the flour mixture.
Add the chocolate chips
Chill for 45 minutes or so

Preheat oven to 325 and bake about 18 minutes.

I like to take mine out before they're completely done, and let them cool and finish cooking with their leftover heat. It makes them more chewy =)

1. How do you like your eggs? I do not like eggs kind sir or madam

2. How do you take your coffee/tea?Coffee? depends on my mood...usually i drink my tea iced and plain unless im at a restaurant and then i add tons of lemon and splenda...i dont drink coffee often and it really depends on my mood whether i drink it black or with somthing in it

3. Favorite breakfast food: i enjoy almost any kind of breakfast potato, and i like toast and cream cheese

4. Peanut butter: Smooth or crunchy? i dont really like PB but smooth

5. What kind of dressing on your salad? again, depends on my mood and the salad, i enjoy french, ranch, italian

6. Coke or Pepsi? Diet Pepsi forevv

7. You’re feeling lazy, what do you make? a frozen lasagna or somthing of the sort

8. You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order? i REALLY dont like pizza chain pizza...im a frozen kinda girl

9. You feel like cooking. What do you make? depends on my mood...i like trying new things, but its not easy with a picky meat and potatoes bf

10. Do any foods bring back good memories? cube steak, those twiced baked potatoes that come in the little cardboard

11. Do any foods bring back bad memories? oh lordy...tuna salad with eggs in it. When i was in preschool (also went to said preschool for summer daycare) they MADE me eat eggs and tuna salad (which i hate) and to make it worse it was tuna salad with hard boiled egg in it. I barfed soo bad and made the whole table of kids barf. My mom even told those bitches that i was allergic to eggs to make sure that they wouldnt make me eat them, but they did anyways. Incidently a couple of those teachers there got arrested a few years after i stopped going there

12. Do any foods remind you of someone? Chicken and dumplings=my best friend melissa, Fried Potatoes and the cabbage polish sausage stuff (ill have to post recipe one day)= my Gramma, cube steak, gravy, beets+salad=my mom, boreks=imster (OBVV), Steak=dons dad, potato pancakes=dons mom...i could go onnnn and on

13. Is there a food you refuse to eat? head cheese...i dont like "parts"

14. What was your favorite food as a child? up until i was 16 my fav food was spaghetti...now i barely like it

15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?ONIONS i love me some onions nowadays

16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate? i wouldnt say i hate it, but im not too fond of spaghettios these days

17. Favorite fruit and vegetable: i really dont know what my favorite fruit is...i like plums, mangoes, really ripe sweet strawberries, cherries....my favorite veggie is corn...corrrrrnnnnn...especially grilled on the cob...i will eat the shit out of cobbed corn

18. Favorite junk food: hmmm probably spicier nacho doritos

19. Favorite between meal snack: depends on my mood...i do like crackers and cheese or spreads

20. Do you have any weird food habits? Im A LOTTTT better than i used to be about this, but I still do the full routine on McDonalds cheeseburgers: Take it all apart, smoosh both buns together to rub the ketchup around, eat bottom bun, eat top bun, eat pickles, eat meat. Also i break my hot dogs in two parts

21. You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on? cucumbers and ranch, carrots, 100 calorie things lol

22. You’re off your diet. Now what would you like?whatever i didnt have on my diet

23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai? Before i moved up to minnesota, i could take the heat, let me tell you what. Theres this thai restaurant that lets you order 1-5 spiciness, and i used to get a 5...now i get a 2 lol

24. Can I get you a drink? I learned a new thing: Arnold Palmer (half iced tea half lemonade)

25. Red or White Wine? i dont enjoy wine

26. Favorite dessert? hmmmmm...it depends...sometimes im in a chocolate mood, sometimes not, but i do really enjoy my strawberry shortcake...mostly just the shortcake biscuits that i make...they are soooo good

27. The perfect nightcap? i dont drink

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I havent made banana bread in forever, but i had 2 extra overripe bananas laying around so i did. It came out a little dry because i didnt have enough banana. It should have been 2 cups, but i think i only had one, if that.



Recipe:
Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan

2 c. flour
1tsp baking soda
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 t. salt
2 eggs beaten
1 stick of butter softened
2 c. mashed nanners

In one bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt
In another bowl cream together the sugar and butter...add eggs and mashed banana and mix.
Add in the flour mixture and stir lightly (dont overstir this or your bread will be tough)
Pour into loaf pan and bake for 60-65 minutes

Yesterday I made Cigarette Boreks, after months of delay. One day while talking to my (turkish) friend Imren she was showing me pictures of good turkish food, and these tasty little cigarettes of deliciousness popped up on my screen. I knew right away i had to try them, and lucky for me they were super simple. Well as I said i finally got around to making them yesterday, and they were gooooood. As a matter of fact im going to make some more tomorrow. Here are some pictures:




mmmm crispyyy


Here is the recipe: from Binnur's Turkish Cookbook
This site is very helpful, as it has pictures posted along the way