The Death of a Potluck

So nobody likes to come to my potluck so after a year and a half this is the end.

Today I made Curried Eggplant Soup. Occasionally I like to make a dish with things in it I am not sure of. Sometimes I find dishes I really like. Then I have days like today. I don’t know about eggplants. I have had it about four times know and I have liked it only once.

I also made Root Beer Float Cupcakes. The ganache did not work out well. I would suggest using the recipe from VCTOTW.


Check out the angelic halo around the delicious frosting.

Polygamy

A couple of months ago I posted a book review for Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer. With what is going on in Texas right now I encourage everyone to go to the library and check it out. I am happy I read it and I have a better understanding of what is going on down there. What the women of polygamy are going threw is horrific.

February Potluck

I have Vegetarian Potluck tonight. I though maybe it is time to put pictures up from February’s potluck.

I made the Caesar Salad from Veganomicon. Whenever I cook for myself, everything goes so nicely. However, whenever I cook for other people my kitchen becomes a disaster area. I cut and burn myself, I break things, drop things it is horrible. Does anyone else have this problem? I was not trilled with the dressing for the salad, which could be my fault because as I stated above I suck at cooking for other people. I did not have time to roast the garlic for the croutons, so I sautés minced garlic in about ¼ of a cup oil and went form there. They were awesome. On the upside, I did not have to worry about vampire attacks for about three days afterwards.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Gram Cracker Sandwich

I am cleaning out my camera and found a bunch of pictures I have not written about yet. March was a busy month for me but I wanted to take something to work for National Meat Out Day. I think that I mixed a couple of recipes for this and there are no real measurements. I took peanut butter and mixed it with powdered sugar with a hand mixer. The consistence of the mixture was similar to what I remember the peanut butter in peanut butter cups to be. Then I melted some chocolate chips. I had to do some experimenting with the assembly. The way that worked out best was to spread the peanut butter mixture on a gram cracker, spread the melted chocolate on top of that. Then place a gram cracker on top of that and give a gently squeeze. It is something to make when you are being lazy but want something sweet.

Take one and two

The final product

New Tattoo

On Tuesday, I got my first tattoo! It was super exciting. It is on my forearm, the word hope in white. It is still pretty red, I think the guy who did it was having trouble seeing what he was doing with the white and went over it about a hundred times. The pictures of it really sucks. With the flash on you can't see it and I was having problems getting a good picture. Then the batteries were going dead. I will post a better one once it is healed.