Cranberry Pound Cake

Look how pretty it is! I love my bundt pan. This time I didn't reduce any ingredients because I wanted a nice cake and it worked! :) The cake itself was pretty yummy. I thought it was too sweet but others thought it wasn't sweet enough (umm.. 3cups sugar guys..)

Recipe Here I don't know why mine is dark, oh well, still pretty.

I haven't gone out to eat in friggin ages. how do I know? because I actually have moolah and am considering splurging on a pair of ankle boots or an overpriced sweater from ax

I have 6 agonizing midterms in oct/nov and shitload of proj/assignments. fun times. but this week there will be more restaurant pics/reviews.. I guarantee it :D

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been seeing this Neiman Marcus recipe circulating around A LOT recently so I decided to give it a try. They sure were soft inside, but still not as good as I hoped :(

Next recipe I try, I am gonna take my time and really really try to make it good.. freezing dough, patting it down in nice circle,etc

ps I was studying when I made them. I really didn't feel like learning about expats.

If you want to try Here it is

Garlic Bread+Figs

I made garlic bread yesterday. I sliced it in half and made two different versions: one being toasted, the other was soft. Both were absolutely delicious! But I prefered the soft one more because it was a little crispy yet soft in the middle, and I think it captured the garlic butter+parsley more so than the toasty one. This is the toasty pic. I also made fish (too much salt), blitz (too much cinnamon), and crab cakes (yummy). I don't know why I was in such a cooking mood yst.

My favorite fruit in the whole wide world is fig. My neighbor grows them and knows how much I love them and always bring them over for me. They were so nice and even planted a fig tree for us in our yard. Anyways, this years weather has been soo crappy that my indulgence for figs was never fulfilled :( Even so, I had a couple :) they are not very ripe but I couldn't resist! Honestly, I come home to the boring valley for figs. There's nothing else to do here.. what, pick berries/mushrooms? oi.

pizza+dessert

so now that I am back in the valley I decided to cook something new everyday since I am only here for a week. Yesterday, I made a normal pizza because I have never done so before. I bought already made dough because I hate dealing with dough. I loaded it with toppings to make it healthy and yummy. but I overloaded and it turned out soggy and overfilling, especially with the massive amounts of tomatoes. dang
Today I made some super quick apple rolls. They are so easy, you just basically wrap apple in a crescent roll and then make this 2 second sauce and that's it. They definitely fulfilled my sweet craving!

The next couple days I m gonna make sheperd's pie, pb cookies, ravioli, peach gazette, garlic bread, quiche, and etccccc

Bundt cake/chicken pizza

I went through a faze where I wanted to make a gazillion different cakes. I found 24 layers chocolate cake, black forest, a million variety of cheese cakes, princess cake! , etc etc cake recipes I wanted to try. One of the crazes I went through included pound cakes and bundt cakes. I loved the patterns and the way a glaze would look drizzled on top of them. mmmm. So I got a new bundt cake pan and got cookin. the pan was freaking HUGE (it cost about 50-60 dollars I think? aiya) so a normal cake recipe turned out to be 1/4 full in this pan!

I love to cook but I don't like eating my own creations (that sounds weird but i don't know how to explain. I guess I get satisfied by making it I don't need to eat it? it's like when I m hungry and I look at pretty food piccys online and I am fulfilled. People think I m crazy because usually ppl get hungrier and not fuller haha :P) and my parents don't like sweet things. and I feel weird when I get my friends to eat my cooking. So obv I m not gonna double/triple/even quadruple (this pan is MASSIVE) my recipe to cooperate with my pan.

This was an orange cake with a lemon glaze? the glaze didn't work as well as I hoped :( so you can't see it. The cake was too dense for my liking, not as fluffy and soft.. I think I added too much of something.. ohhh wellll.

Today for lunch/dinner I made pizza :) Actually it's a piece of chicken with loads of cheese mushroom and pizza sauce on top.
Even though I like to try out new recipes, I don't cook for myself daily. My daily eating plan is just: cereal, salad, and a TON of fruits and a piece of cookie. I am too lazy to cut things and wait for things to cook and wash the dishes afterrr haha. So I don't know why I decided to make this today (maybe it's because I m still procrastinating) but it took like 10 min max. Very fast and filling :)

I just realized the pic would probably like ten times better if the mushrooms were on TOP of the cheese. oh wells, cheese is pretty too


I am not posting until next week. after my exam I am jetting off to CALIFORNIA... when I come back there will be a lottttt of foodie pics :)

White Chocolate Cookies

If you haven't realized from my other posts, everytime I go out to eat, I need dessert or something sweet at the end. I have to have a piece of chocolate each day or something to satisfy my sweet tooth. anyways, I keep procrastinating even though I need to ace my next two finals.. But I need sweets!

I quickly whipped up these white chocolate cookies. They were supposed to be chocolate chip, but I had two blocks of white chocolate left around so i thought what the hell, they are both chocolatey It'll do. They are really soft and practically melts in the mouth. mm soo good!

the recipe: here