Delectable Delicious almost Devoured in One Night Devilishly Good Martha Cookies

I bought Martha Stewart's Cookies. What a silly silly thing for an already pudgy 20-year-old baker to do. I made her scrumptious, delectable Chocolate Charms and I've been nibbling since they came out of the oven. These are quite good and I am so happy I sprang for the expensive B&N price so that I can make cookies while I am alone in my dorm for Spring Break. Except that I am alone, which means that no one is watching me so that I don't eat every single one of these nummy little cookies. I can only surmise from this fantastic result that a good majority of the other 174 cookie recipes will be fantastic. I think my next personal cookie will be blondies. I really love blondies and have only discovered them since being in college. My mom has stuck with the same brownie recipe since I was knee high to a grasshopper (gah-hyuck) and doesn't care for trying new recipes for old favorites. Point: I have only had brownies in my youth and a vast majority of them have been Hershey's Best brownies (which are really tasty but I have decided that I am going to attempt to find a truly perfect brownie recipe or find a good variety so that I can match the perfect brownie for the brownie-craving-of-the-moment. I love this new recipe a week bit. It seems really easy right now. That could prove to be the foreboding in this task. I think I should come up with some sort of design for a recipe task  with a goal and a deadline. I know the whole cook along in a year concept has been done but there are several cookbooks that I am very very interested in purchasing and, if I am at all like my mother, I am going to need some really good motivation to cook from the books or they will become decorations in my book/pottery/craft supply cluttered home. We shall think about this further! Good night chickadees, sweet dreams!

Herbs!

I made Julia's potato cheese sticks last night with S. They were divine! He kept pestering me about adding green onions to them. That probably will not happen. I may add some of my new chives when they grow up, big and strong! I bought some basil, chives and parsley and some great little bird pots at Lowe's. Very very cute. I am a bit of a bird nut so. . . I asked Mr.S. if he which recipe he wanted to try next and his only sentiment was MEAT (I only eat fish/sea food)!!! I talked him into crepes a la Florentine. Very excited. I've never even attempted a real crepe. I also just signed up for Netflix so I should have a good deal of French films to cook by! I'm still open to suggestion for my next recipe if anyone is out there.

Trying Something new Every Single Week.

I have a confession. I am obsessed with Julia Child. I am reading My Life in France by Mrs. Child and her Nephew Alex Prud'Homme and find Mrs. Child positively charming and her descriptions of France and her people is absolutely enchanting. There aren't many people I really describe as charming and especially not enchanting. This isn't because I don't find people endearing but there is a certain fluent quality that a couple of handfuls of people naturally exude. As a true blue Appalachian lady I have a habit of saying things like "Bless her heart," and calling people "Darling, honey, and sugar." I sound like a syrupy Southern Belle (snort, riiiight). Any who, Mrs. Child is absolutely endearing and I adore her. I also have just finished reading Julia and Julia by Julie Powell. Mrs. Powell is abrasive and often while reading I think to myself simultaneously "I could NEVER be friends with this crazy bird," and "I can't wait to hear how she tackles the next recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I wasn't continuously affronted by the way Julie Powell acted (I wouldn't have finished the darn book if this were to be the case). I was impressed and a little awed by her daunting feat but I was so jealous because she was living in a world of attempts at that wonderfully fullilling emotion that tends to cause something akin to euphoria when one has created a beautiful dish and the dish and effort can be shared. I decided that I will attempt to try at least on recipe a week from MtAoFC and other gifted books and magazines. I am so excited. If anyone out there is reading this and gives a hoot, leave a little comment to suggest a recipe. K, Bai!

Bakeholic

     I love baking. I am going to turn into one of those aunties who bake three tons of caloric overload to any relative I can still remember. I have been watching Grey's Anatomy and harvesting new recipes because I am the type of person who overly obsessive. I have watched three seasons of the darn show. I have created a filing system for my cooking magazines. I am the only twenty-year-old that I know who asked for and got a Kitchenaid Artisan stand mixer in Pistachio. I love my strange, nerdy life. Well, I am off to read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and cement my status as an uber nerd. Tah!

JJJ

Julie, Julia and Jess. Yeah, Jess. Take that. Actually, I really have nothing in common with either of the other J. Actually, I do love food. A lot. Extremely a lot. Enormously a lot. But I can't really cook. Only bake a few cookies, fake a few recipes. You know. Kid stuff. In fact I decimated, disrespected, defamed a couple of recipes. But I did make a very tasty brussels sprouts casserole. Thanksgiving was a feast. . . of exhaustion. I loved it! I cannot tell you how much spending a few days with my sweet mama picked up my spirits. We talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked. It was fantastical. My littlest biggest brother murdered small animals, the rest of my family helped in the slaughter and the feasting (of actual food). I really adore my family, but sometimes they can suck the festivity of you. My mama whisked me away from it all. We escaped through the food we made for the family. I love food. She loves food. We looooooove food. Ask our waists, oh wait, you can't find them? Eh we can't either. No worries, the food can. That's the important part. This combined love of food may be the reason I may be getting a 5 quart Kitchenaid Artisan series mixer, pistachio! Yummy. All of the recipes that I can make without endangering my elbow and shoulder. Well, I love my life right now.

A preview of what I will be bringing to the table!

 Thanks Pioneer Woman and Food Network, you're the best.

Turkey Day vs Term Papers

 Why, oh why must my professors cast such a dark shadow on Turkey Day! Especially this Turkey Day. This is the first year I have held a part time job and have gone to school full time. I know that thousands of students do what I do, but that doesn't make me miss my mama less. It's been months since I have seen her and I miss her dearly. Thankfully, she is venturing across state to spend the day with my brother and me. Sadly, my assignments hold precedence over time with my mother. Hopefully I will be able to knock them out in the next couple of days before she gets here. Hold up! I have one other issue that may just be my undoing. I am the world's worst for procrastinating. I have known about these assignments yet I have put them off time and again. I find little projects to keep me busy like the Page's Felt Flower Winter Wreath, or Pioneer Woman's Nantucket Cranberry Pie. Both absolutely fantastic and not a waste of time at all. . . but I really should be focusing on school work in my spare time.