Keep Y'alls Eyes Out

By keeping y'alls eyes out I do not mean gouge them out. I don't think any of you would do that anyhow, because why listen to a blogger that you aren't really a fan of? Ah heh huh. Right.

Now what was I going to talk about?? I ffo.... DON'T forget that I made some brownies on Friday!! ^_^ Yeah! And...... today I tried to do a chiffon cake all by myself! Ugh I just reminded myself of the dishes in the sink. Who cares. But yeah, I just wanted y'all to keep your eyes out for the chiffon cake report post which will be posted.... soon. Just soon. I dislike being positive about the future, lol. Anyway, that's all I need to say!!

-N

Pasta Cake

I made pasta cake today!!! Wanted to pretend to make weird things like they do on Cupcake Wars, so I mixed savory with sweet! Turned out great!!!

Just jooookinnnnggggomgdidyouguysreallybelievethathahahasrslythisislonganduseless

I did make cake tho, and I did make pasta. Well, I didn't MAKE pasta, I just cooked it. 'Cause, like, pasta makers cost as much as heaven. And it wasn't just pasta! 'Twas pasta salad. With homemade 'pesto' or veggie sauce or dressing or whatever. I just jammed about a cup of kale leaves in the blender with some moisture and the product was produced.

Just jooookinnnnggggagainlolyougulliblehumans

Appetizing, right?! OMG, IKR!!

#fangirlstatements #freakingoutaboutnothing #thatswhatido #lolsrsly #demhashtagsdoe

I kinda made up the recipe moiself so here you go if'n you're interested... ~

How to Make N's Nourishin' Pasta Salad ~

1. Set about 4 cups of water to a boil. Pour in the crusty and hard uncooked pasta things. I used gluten free ...tortellini?? Rotini? Yeah, it was rotini. I used gluten free so that Little bro with allergies could eat it too. #youcanthaveallergiesandeatthingstoo
2. Stir until al dente or until they're as soft as you want LEL. Mine wasn't al dente because a certain girl told me to take it off the heat. T_T #sisters
3. Strain the pasta and set it aside to cool whilst you prepare the ... we'll call it dressing.

To make the dressing, you'll need:
About two handfuls of baby kale leaves
About 1/4 cup of soymilk
Half a lemon
1/3 of an onion, chopped
Three stalks of cilantro
A tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
A tablespoon of salt
About two tablespoons of orange juice

Dump everything into a blender except the lemon half, the vinegar, and orange juice. After smooth, squeeze the lemon half into the mixture, ensuring no lemon seeds enter the mixture.

Now, you dump the cooked pasta into a dish of your choice. Then pour the dressing over it and mix everything together. Pour the vinegar and orange juice into a measuring cup or tiny bowl and mix it together. Pour over the pasta and stir together.

VARIATIONS: That's all I did, and since Little brother has allergies, I cut little cubes of cheese and put them in a separate tiny bowl. However, if you're making this for people with no allergies, you can dump the cheese cubes right in. Also, if I'd had tomatoes, I'd add them. And tiny cubes of peppers. Also -- okay, that's all for now. A different version of my pasta salad may appear on this blog in the future. We'll see though, as pasta isn't really baking.

~♥~

Now, as for the cake... I used a buttermilk pound cake II recipe (look that up). Instead of vanilla and lemon flavoring, I used orange juice. I'm guessing the taste wasn't very obvious because it was orange juice. Freshly squeezed would make more of an impact. Eh, I was rushin' and lazy. Process was chill. I greased the pans like crazy with butter. Then, yeah. Baked them for almost 100 minutes. One side stuck to the pan. It was okay though, because I took the cakes to Sister's Cake Hospital and, after a short operation, the cakes were brand-new. Ish. I made a simple icing out of 1/4 cup butter and 1 cup powdered sugar, which Sister dressed the bottom layer cake with. Then she spread four-fruit jam on top of that, and then dangerous things happened. I watched her dangerously put the top cake layer on, and we squealed like little girls. Then we pigged out on huge slices.

Some mysterious soul finished it. Which means I must go to work and make another one.

Thanks for eating, keep on reading!!

N

My Break Haha No Not Really

I have the best news a baker could provide her fans with!

(I have fans?)
(Be quiet, brain.)

Anywho, I don't know who reads my life blog and who doesn't. However, if any of you do not read my life blog, you may not know of the fact that my oven was fixed yesterday!! Yup! I heard a professional knock at the door, and I peeked through the peephole and saw one of the maintenance guys. "Hold on," I said loudly, and rushed to pull on my presentable attire not really. Then I let him in and said hello. My brain screamed in happiness when I saw a brand new element in his hands. He said he was gonna turn off the power. Since I had literature class at the time, I couldn't really pay attention to him, but he didn't need my expert assistance anyway. Before he left he was like, "It's fixed now," or summin' like that. Outside I was like, "Okay, thank you." But inside I was like YAAAASSS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!

Internet you are awesome

And then I continued literature class. And biology class. And history class.

Due to this wonderful morsel of news, I am now able to construct a chiffon cake, composing a post about it, which will contain my chiffon cake report. Stay tuned for that!! ;)

As for now, I'm going to tell you a sort-of-story in which I took a little break from baking from scratch.

This may or may not lower my rep that may or may not exist.

Heh. Well.

I couldn't wait any longer for the oven to get fixed, so... I went out and bought cupcakes from a store called Kbar's.

#youdontseethatducttape

Kidding. I made these using a box mix that my friend named Kbar bought at the store for me to make because she invited me to her house to chillax with food. It was a strawberry super moist Betty Crocker's mix.

Kidding, again. It was a white super moist Betty Crocker's cake mix.

Kbar has a very nice kitchen. (Any other day my sis would've killed me for getting my hands in the picture but I guess she was being nice that day.)

Yes, it WAS a white cake mix, but she provided me with neon food colorings!! (OMG! I rarely get to use those!!!) I chose pink out of purple, green, orange, and pink. I was like yaassss, Imma have fun here!

looks like imma use u a lot today, bebby

'Xcuse that one down there, it did NOT get pierced by a fork ;)

Also, Kbar said she could make cream cheese frosting, and again, I was like YESSS!!! Cream cheese frosting is the best kind of frosting ever, 'cause buttercream is too silky and sikly (lel deliberate misspelling of the word sickly).
Using the purple and green from the remaining neon food colorings, we frosted rather fabuloso cupcakes, which kind of resembled Patrick from Spongebob because of the colors. Don'tcha think so??

'Durrable, right?

I decorated the, uhh... the purple one on the most far right under the star one. And, well, that was my first one. The rest I did are the ugliest ones. ;)

We ate the non-frosted ones with chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet. It was heavenly.

Fortunately, Kbar had some boxes in which we could take home our creations. Kbar is a wonderful person. She didn't even keep any for herself. ;_; (Amma pay her back now that the oven works :D ;))

That is my story of my break from scratch baking. Thanks for reading, and remember to stay tuned for the chiffon post!! (Yeah right N.)