x033- CLANNAD
x069- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
x027- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

PREVIEW:
( point your gun in another direction )

x033- CLANNAD
x069- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
x027- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

PREVIEW:
( point your gun in another direction )

I got the recipe from the December 2007 issue of Gourmet Magazine. I just love this recipe. I just made a few minor changes. www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2007/12/trios I did not cream for 4 minutes (the last time I made them they spread too much. I also chilled the dough after I shaped (my garage was very cold, so it worked out nicely)

( pic...becuase I can't figure out to make it smaller )

I woke up at 5 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. Since yesterday was an exhausting day (a midterm, 3 quizes, an organic lab and finally a very pointless excursion through the mud and the rain in the evening), I decided that rewarding myself was the best way to get me motivated to push through the final weeks the semester. So, I did some early morning baking. ( here's what I have done )

Here is an interesting article on Southern Layer Cakes. It includes a recipe. Enjoy!

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( Mmmm Southern Layer Cake. I do declare! )

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1893/

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic.

I'm looking for suggestions/recipes for sweet goodies that I can make with my nieces, other than just decorating sugar cookies.

Recipes similar to this one: http://bunsinmyoven.com/2009/12/16/buttons/

It needs to be simple since they're only 4 and 5.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

So, I'm normally pretty hardcore about making everything from scratch but Kroger recently had a sale on all Duncan-Hines cake mix for a dollar a box. Which was way too awesome a deal to pass up so I grabbed a few in hopes of being able to modify them from acceptable to OMG delish. Duncan-Hines mix requires the addition of: 1/3 c vegetable oil, 3 large eggs, and 1 1/3 c water.

I thought I could try this instead: 1/3 c melted butter, 2 large eggs, 2 oz cream cheese, and 1 1/3 c milk.

Do yo think this would work? Or would it just result in some bizarre mutant cake thing? My trial run is going to be with the lemon supreme mix, which I am making lemon cupcakes with black raspberry cream cheese frosting. Lemon and raspberry gets me all sorts of happy. Doing this trail run is really important, as I will be applied the same modification to the yellow cake mix I got for my boyfriend's bday cake. His mother used to cook everything out of a box so sometimes he prefers box to homemade from scratch. His is going to be a classic yellow cake with rich chocolate fudge frosting and a chocolate ganache filling and chopped reese's on top. I can't wait to see him eat it!

Moving past the rambling, any advice on altering a box mix would be great and if my idea would work.

Thanks!

Hey guys,

So I've been a member of this community for a few years. I don't update all that much, because I never think to take pictures before people have begun devouring my baked goods, but this is where I always go for a lot of my recipe ideas. So a few years ago there was a brownie request post (I tried looking in the tags but I couldn't find it) and it had this link to a scanned image of "The World's Best Brownies." I'm pretty sure that was the title. I don't remember what it was from, but those are the most epicly amazing brownies I've ever had. I had it saved to my hard drive, but of course, my hard drive failed and now I'm left without the world's most delicious brownies. Does anyone remember the recipe I'm talking about?

I remember it had nearly a pound of butter, a ton of chocolate, and recommended that you let them sit for a day before eating them (a feat that is nearly impossible to accomplish). I do however, remember the taste. They were super moist and gooey and chocolatey and amazing. If anyone knows what recipe I'm talking about, I will pretty much love you forever.

Oh and so it's not entirely just a wordy post...

Last night I made Cake balls!

( om nom nom )

Sadly, I was away sick from baking lab last Friday, which meant I had no pictures of the lovely Creme Brulees, the Panna cottas and the other beautiful treats we made. However, I did bake two Yule Logs earlier this week (one chocolate and one vanilla), which were received with great delight! ( Yummy Yummy this way... )

http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=59590

News/Article

I know someone already posted a cranberry-nut biscotti entry this month, but mine's different! I chose these cookies not only for their festive colors and flavors (red cranberries, green pistachios), but also because biscotti are one of the best things to package and hold up for a very long time, which makes them the ideal thing to mail. Plus they’re the perfect thing to accompany coffee or tea, which almost everyone I know enjoys.

Happy Holidays!

Tons more pics and info at my blog, jonesing for...

( Recipe and more under the cut... )

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1892/

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic.

Here are Challenge # 149 banners for:
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surmise
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( Banners are behind the cut... )

Why is it that cold medicine can only be taken every 4 hours, and yet runs out after about 3?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcoGeek/~3/UevN7aa7EH0/3019-nasa-unveils-amazing-ghg-models

http://ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3019-nasa-unveils-amazing-ghg-models

NASA's Aqua spacecraft has been taking daily CO2 measurements with its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument (AIRS) for the past seven years and now all that information gathering has led to beautiful and frightening maps and models of the concentration and movement of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

Highlighting the importance of this new data set, NASA researcher Moustafa Chahine said:

"AIRS provides the highest accuracy and yield of any global carbon dioxide data set available to the research community, now and for the immediate future," said Chahine. "It will help researchers understand how this elusive, long-lived greenhouse gas is distributed and transported, and can be used to develop better models to identify 'sinks,' regions of the Earth system that store carbon dioxide. It's important to study carbon dioxide in all levels of the troposphere."

The data reveals major findings like a belt-like ring of CO2 in the southern hemisphere where it acts as a sink for CO2 from the northern hemisphere. Also, the data shows the strong correlation between a rise in CO2 and a rise in water vapor, leading to "exacerbated" warming.

You can check out all of the amazing models, including global CO2, water vapor and methane movements here.

via NASA

So I haven't updated in a week, probably should. I just haven't felt like it honestly, been in a rut I guess.

Recent Developments:

* Saturday's Final Fantasy concert was EPIC WIN. So much so that I *gasp* actually purchased the CD. You know something must be fantastically epic when I actually contribute money to it instead of pirating it. Unfortunately, it didn't have the same songs on it as the concert, they said they'd be recording the new stuff in Stockholm in January for release in June. Their version of 'JENOVA' was spectacular, but I was disappointed in their arrangement of 'Dancing Mad.' And I bawwwww'd like a little bitch at 'Memoro de la Stono' which is weird since I've never played 11, but it was so beautiful! And LOL at Nobuo Uematsu running around the stage in a ninja costume with his air guitar.

* The ROTC is a go, though I won't be starting it til next Fall. I could potentially get in for Spring, but there are too many details to be ironed out in the four short weeks between now and the start of the Spring semester.

* With the above being the case, I most likely am going to switch majors like I'd been considering. Knowing that Mom was cosigning for a loan and would WTF if my schooling suddenly became longer was one of my biggest reasons for not switching, I felt too guilty. But with that no longer being the case, I might as well take the government opportunity while I have it.

Maybe its just coincidence, or maybe I'm seeing signs where I shouldn't, but after helping Kev studying for his finals the past two weeks, it just seems too odd to me that I'm absorbing this information like a sponge yet have so much difficulty in my own major. How the hell is it that Torts is easier than Biology? I still think Anatomy is easier than Property, but that's because Anatomy fascinates me and its easier to learn something that captures your attention. But seriously, brain? Contracts is more interesting to you than Chemistry? WTF. I still think it has a lot to do with my inability to force myself to go to the three-hour labs though.

Oddly enough, Kev agrees with me. He thinks that, with the way my mind works, law would be better for me than medicine. Maybe he sees something that I don't, but he says I focus on things better than he does, that I think critically and logically. That's also in part him being a self-depreciating turd, considering right now he's comparing himself to a high-school-dropout, but I dunno.

Never mind the fact that being here in John Marshall's extensive library is a fucking bookgasm. A lot of it is boring legal text (woohoo for the municipal code of Michigan! x.x) but there's so many legal analysis books and stuff like that...I keep grabbing things off the shelf as we walk by and have been reading them while he does studying that I can't help with. He keeps asking if I want him to check them out on his library card, but that's a steep slope to addiction right there.

* PureVia sweetener is made of ass butter. Seriously. Target had SoBe Lifewater on sale 10-for-$10 and I picked up two flavors I'd never seen before, but didn't realize til I got home that they're the sugar-free kind. Neither of us can drink it because....well, its ass butter, it butters up your ass like a fucking slip-n-slide. Which is a shame, as this cherimoya punch flavor tastes quite good, but I know I need to throw it away before I get the urge to keep drinking it. Lifewater is supposed to give me life, not make it ooze out of my backside.

* I haven't started packing at all. That's a lie, I've packed one box, and its full of books. But that's it. Saturday is going to be FUN. </sarcasm>

* I am halfway done my research paper. I have most of my sources planned out, though the professor was a dork and didn't expect my badassery at research. "How does I cite legal cases and constitutional amendments?" was my question, and to complete the meme, "LOL dunno" was the answer. So I basically get to put them in my paper however the hell I want......lol. I just need to finish writing the rest, then proofread it a few times, then figure out how to send it to a printer. Fucking JMLS printers.