Baking Contest

Check it out. Tim left me a link on his computer this morning for a Baking Contest.  Bought to you by King Arthur Flour.

Enjoy & Happy Baking.

PS: Contest ends Friday the 28th of Sept. 5PM Est.

My Two Big Splurges

Organic butter and flour.  And for one of them, I didn't even use a coupon.

Nope.

It's been six months since I used this flour and by gosh, I wanted to use it for the banana chocolate mini muffins that I made yesterday.

And you know what? I loved it.

Good ingredients makes all the difference.  And organic butter out does crappy butter, any day.  Thankfully though, I had a coupon and a store sale.  And get this, my $1 coupon doubled to 2 bucks, thanks to an in-store promotion.

If you want to give Organic Valley a try, click organic butter coupon.  There you'll find a few other organic goodies as well, including a $1 off organic eggs. 

But if you want to make your own butter, check out my girl Niki's blog.  She made butter.  How frickin' cool is that?

So frickin' cool.

Scroll down her page to find the butter.  She also made her own soap, and she's an excellent photographer as well.

Cheers all, and boogie boogie.

No cloned cows were used in the making of this butter.

Cookbook? What Cookbook?

Did I say I was going to write a cookery book? I think I just might have.  Only the start of that project feels very long ago.  But now that I've gotten into the groove of my ping pong pizza shoppe schedule, it's time to get back to work.

And it's a brand new month.  I love that.  Fresh clean start.  So today I worked on my food writing and you know what?

It feels pretty damn good.

Today I baked banana mini muffins with Ghirardelli chocolate.  I wish you could smell my kitchen right now because it's heaven.  And the muffins themselves are super duper moist.  I keep sticking my nose in the container to take a whiff.  Only each time I do, I eat one.

I should probably stop doing that.

I also worked on another draft of organic brown orzo and homemade cream of chicken sauce.  It's not ready for the book but it's coming along and I'm enjoying the draft writing.

If you want to give the organic brown pasta a try, click Delallo Pasta, and you'll get a dollar off coupon.  They even make white pasta, for those interested.

Near me, this imported pasta runs upwards of 3 bucks a bag.  Too rich for my blood.  But thanks to a local store sale and a dollar coupon, I scored them for a buck a bag.

Not too shabby.

Cheers & boogie boogie.

My First Battle Scar

Yesterday I got my first pizza shoppe battle scar.  Do you know what other cooks do when one cook gets injured? They say congratulations and swap battle scar stories. 

Show & tell, style.

But that was yesterday.  Today I have the whole honkin' day off.  My big plans include not getting dressed, being lazy and eating the best grilled cheese sandwich on earth.

Today I used organic cayenne for my grilled cheese crust.  So so good.  And dig this, you can print coupons for Simply Organic products by clicking Simply Organic.

You Boogerbutts have a good one.

PS: I would have shown you a picture of the grilled cheese but it's already in my belly, and nobody needs to see that.

Wonder Woman Potato

Fart Bubbles

My pizza making skills have improved.  Hardly any fart bubbles in the pies that I made today.  There were a few, one was a real honker, but other than that, I'm progressing.

Go me.  Rah.

And check out what I got on the ride home.  After I handed the lady my coupons, she opened the register and paid me 13 cents to take the items out of store.

Hot dog.

Check out my 13 cents.  I still can't believe that they paid me.

BACON!

It's buy it WITHOUT a coupon, good.

Ice Pups

The manager at the pet store told me how she stuffs canned Blue dog food into Kong toys, and lets it set for 24 hours in the freezer.  Since I received three FREE cans, I gave it a go.  And she was right, 24 hours and that stuff was solid.  Took both pups and hour to finish their frozen treat.

I also made more ice treats, using the cavity pan that I usually bake doggy biscuits, in.  It's very easy.  Just a little canned food, some flour a bit of water and bam, easy to work with doggy dough.  I like the Blue canned, the best.  As and added bonus, it doesn't stink the kitchen while it bakes.

And the dough is fun to play with.

But no biscuits today, just ice pups.  Meanwhile for me, I'm groovin' on a Tim Horton's blended caramel iced cappuccino.  And looky here, it's four in the afternoon and I'm already home from work and in my jams.

Life is good.

These are Kong toys, filled with wet dog food, and frozen solid.

These are great cavity pans, filled with water and solid dog food.

And here's the flip side with fun grooves.
 I love kitchen toys.