Entries Tagged as ‘In The Kitchen’

June 16, 2008

Twinkie Tiramisu

The Pastor loves Tiramisu. For our fifth anniversary last Saturday, we all went to eat at an Italian joint and ate some tiramisu for dessert. For Father’s Day, the Pastor requested I make him some of my fabulous Twinkie Tiramisu. Of course, I made it for him. Would you like to know how to make [...]

May 21, 2008

Boston Cream Cupcakes (Filled Cupcakes)

I promised that I would post how to make my yummy Boston Cream Cupcakes. Well, here I am making good on my promise! Here is what you’ll need:
- one package of butter yellow cake mix
- one regular size package of instant vanilla pudding
- one container of chocolate icing
- cupcake cups (paper or foil- whatever you [...]

March 28, 2008

Spider Monkey Bread

“Chip, I’m gonna come at you like a spider monkey!” For those that don’t get the reference, that is a quote from the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In my attempt to make mini monkey bread, I have created a dessert/breakfast The Pastor loves. I call it Spider Monkey Bread. It is [...]

March 24, 2008

Dinner With The Pastor

You must be thinking this is what life is like here at the parsonage, right? The Pastor really likes ham.

March 15, 2008

Chess Pie

The Pastor grew up eating his grandmother’s chess pie. He made a request a while back for chess pie. I now have the perfect chess pie recipe. Here it is if you are a chess pie person:
2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons of butter
4 tablespoons of flour
5 egg yolks & 5 egg whites (separate the two, and [...]

March 15, 2008

Chocolate Chess Pie

Chocolate chess pie always reminds me of my Granny. Every holiday we’d have chocolate chess pie. It was always so good. After my Granny died, I didn’t have chocolate chess pie for a long time. I didn’t want anyone to make it for me and I certainly did not want to make it. This past [...]

March 12, 2008

Lessons Learned

Tonight, I learned two very important lessons. The first is that if the grocery store is out of mai fun, sai fun is not a good substitute. Mai fun is a rice noodle. Sai fun is a mung bean noodle. In dry form, they look similar. That is what made me try. They looked similar, [...]

March 4, 2008

Lettuce Make Some Lunch!!!

I’ll start by saying that I am very cautious about my food. If I have the slightlest hint that anything has gone bad or is on its way to bad, I will not eat it. I am not one for leftovers or potluck. So, today, I take the lettuce out of the fridge to make [...]