Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

cHoCoLaTe


Yep, that's right! Chocolate, that yummy creamy stuff that just makes you melt! Okay, am I being to dramatic? lol. But really it makes me melt sometimes, in a way. SO anyway. Chocolate, well lets talk about dark Chocolate for a little. You know, that Chocolate, that's deep and dark and yummyness just melts in your mouth like sugar dissolves in water. And the best part? It's healthy, even health freaks say so! They say that creamy goodness is good for your hart, at least if you haven't had milk in the last half hour, or something like that. Yeah. See what I mean about it melting you? I'm just melting sitting here thinking about it!
Moving on. Milk Chocolate, not as good for you as Dark Chocolate, but it tastes just as amazing! And chocolate is a bean, so it's all good for you, right? The sweet, creamy, yummy stuff that also melts in your mouth. Sadly it also melts in the sun.
NOw on to White Chocolate. I actually haven't had as much of this so I can give an opinion on it, it's good yes. But then it has Chocolate in the name. But I hear that it's not actually Chocolate...
Okay moving on again.
HOT Chocolate! And I don't just mean the drink, which is it's own post, I mean when Chocolate, is baked into a cake or just melted on it's own and is so amazing that we eat it at birthdays. Yeah, that kinda of HOT. I'm not really sure what else to say about it though, because it's just to amazing.
But anyway, maybe sometime I'll get around to talking about how peanut butter is amazing with chocolate. But actually this is longer already then I thought it would be, and I haven't even gotten to Chocolate Chips! Which if you're wondering, are soo good that I don't think they should be used ONLY for baking. They're AMAZING by them selves. Or melted. MMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, that's also what i mean about Chocolate making you melt! Those yummy, creamy smooth dark melted Chocolate Chips, that if they were in a bigger bowl you would almost want to jump into them! Except that then it'd be kinda gross to eat them.
Anyway, if I haven't convinced you that Chocolate is amazing yet, think about this, The Mayans would actually use the cocoa bean as MONEY! That's right, instead of gold, or silver, they choose Chocolate as their money. And so only the rich actually got to eat Chocolate, because they were the only ones that could afford it. Although sometimes the poor would eat it and then get some dirt to refill the shell with. Yeah, counterfeiting was around even back then.
Anyway. this post actually has to end, but that's probably a good thing, because that means you can get up and go get some Chocolate to eat instead of just sitting there thinking "Man! I want CHOCOLATE!"

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Strawberry Shortcake

One of my favorite seasonal desserts is strawberry shortcake!!! :) We have several gardens on our property, in which my mom plants a lot of different vegetables and other plants. And one type of plant we have is a strawberry patch in the large vegetable garden, and it's strawberry season here right now! :)
Everyone has their own favorite ways of eating strawberry shortcake. What's yours? The way we make it at my house is with this biscuit recipe (that I believe came over "on the boat" as they say, from Scotland, w/ some of my mom's relatives) that I thought I'd share:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
In a bowl mix
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Mix these together with a pastry blender.
Add 1/4 cup of margarine (we use Earth Balance, which is like margarine only healthier :)
Mix margarine into dry ingredients with pastry blender until dough is kind of crumbly in texture.
Then, add 1/3 cup milk.
Mix milk into the other ingredients. Stir with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are just mixed together (do not over stir as this will wake up the gluten).
Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased sheet, and bake for about 12 minutes, until biscuits are slightly brown on the bottom.
Makes about 10.
Once you have these biscuits made, you can crumble one or two (depending on how much biscuit you want/how much shortcake you want to eat!!) and top with strawberries. Normally, my mom prepares the strawberries beforehand, cutting them up and adding a small amount of sugar to bring out the strawberry juice. Once you had the biscuit and strawberries in a bowl, if you like, add some whipped cream like we like to do.
And, voila! Enjoy!!! :)
(These biscuits are also really good with soups!!! :)