As the title suggests, I am sort of on vacation this week. I know that sounds odd, you either are or you aren't but, I "took" 2 days last week to help make payroll and this week is what I have left so...I am (or already have) worked 2 and a half days. I worked the very exciting 2 to 10 Sunday to take in the truck and then was at work from 8 to 12 yesterday and go tomorrow to cover the bosses day off. I am hoping after that to not have to return until Monday. How blissful to have 4 days off in a row, two of them weekend days!
So vacation calls for wine (not yet it's too early even for me). I stumbled across some great bargains yesterday. Yes they are inexpensive wines to begin with but...I got them for a steal! We (at World Market) are clearancing out some discontinued wines...nothing wrong with them, we just don't have room for them anymore so...I got 2 bottles of Yellow Tale Cab and 2 bottles of Barefoot Pinot Grig for around 3 dollars a bottle! They were on sale for half price and then we still have the buy 4 save an additonal 10% so...why not? I may have to go and pick up the other Barefoot bottles since we have a Halloween BYOB party to go to Saturday night....
Yesterday I thought I would surprise Michael with some new kitchen gadgets. Okay, I bought them for him to use but mostly for me. We went to a friends house a few weeks ago and left the two cup measuring cup there and have been trying to measure without it ever since. I never realized how attached you get to something until you don't have it and that includes the two cupper! My other dilema was I share my 1 cup dry measure with Bear. He gets exactly 1 and a half measuring cups of dog food twice a day...gotta keep the guy in shape, so my cup was in the dog food. Whenever I needed to measure dry stuff I would either have to get the cup out of his dogfood and make it no longer smell like kibble or use the smaller measuring cups. Now the second is not the worst thing in the world unless you are baking. It is so easy to loose track of how many scoops of flour (at 1/3 or 1/4 of a cup at a time) you have added when you need 3 or 4 cups.
I had a $10 rewards coupon at World Market that I had earned from my gourmet purchases and it had to be used yesterday at the latest. I had been pondering since I had gotten the coupon what to use it on....I feel like I must get the most for my money. I decided to pick up a new 2 cupper and a set of complete measuring cups along with a bottle of olive oil. I made my exicitng purchases (along with the wine) for a total of $20 (there are also 2 of the cool Pina Colada things in the freezer) and home I came. The hubby was home having lunch and I proudly awarded him his new 2 cupper and he started to laugh! He sent me out to the kitchen where in the dish drain were...a new 2 cupper and a set of measuring cups he had purchased that same morning...I guess we are completely in sync!
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Time For The Church Chicks!
Last night was my ladies church group get together. I of course waited until the last minute to decide what to bring. I do not know why I cannot make a decision this easy! I will be looking at recipes, eating at other peoples houses or watching a show on TV and will think "I need to bring that to the next church chicks!". The time comes that we have another get together and bam, idea gone!
So there I was at work yesterday in a panic, what could I bring? Now, World Market is filled with yummy goodness. I could take the easy way out and just bring a bottle of wine, goodness knows there is enough of that and all the reds are on sale! For some reason though, I just cannot bring myself to do something that simple. It feels like cheating somehow. When I first went, my friend Jan brought me and she said "We all bring something special that we make very well and than we put it on our best dish". I have lived by this since then. I suspect that may be where the problem comes in, I need to wow everyone. My solution came very simply though. I had a customer that was looking for Madeline cookies. I have been curious about them since we started carrying them, they just looked so interesting. This nice lady told me they taste like little pound cakes and are absolutely delicious. An idea was born! So here is what I did...
Madeline Strawberry Cakes
1 pkg Madelines cut in half the long way
1 small container whipping cream
1 Tbl sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Strawberry's cleaned and sliced
Whip the cream until soft peaks appear (about 5 minutes) add the sugar and the vanilla, mix until blended. Do not over whip the cream or you can have something that looks close to butter (been there done that). Put a dollop of whipped cream on each one (you can be fairly generous with this), place a strawberry on top. Repeat with all the Madelines placing them on a pretty dish as you go along.
I took these and put them in the freezer for about a half an hour before I left just to make sure the cream was firm and it wouldn't droop all over everything by the time we would be eating dessert.
It could not have been easier, I had more than enough for the 30 ladies that were there last night and they were a big hit. Best of all it was cheap! The Madelines were 3.99 for a package of 16, which makes 32 little desserts. The cream was 1.70 and I have no idea how much the strawberries were as I had bought them on my last shopping trip. I probably used about 10 strawberries all told. The entire thing cost me maybe 7.00 which is not inexpensive but still not a budget breaker!
So there I was at work yesterday in a panic, what could I bring? Now, World Market is filled with yummy goodness. I could take the easy way out and just bring a bottle of wine, goodness knows there is enough of that and all the reds are on sale! For some reason though, I just cannot bring myself to do something that simple. It feels like cheating somehow. When I first went, my friend Jan brought me and she said "We all bring something special that we make very well and than we put it on our best dish". I have lived by this since then. I suspect that may be where the problem comes in, I need to wow everyone. My solution came very simply though. I had a customer that was looking for Madeline cookies. I have been curious about them since we started carrying them, they just looked so interesting. This nice lady told me they taste like little pound cakes and are absolutely delicious. An idea was born! So here is what I did...
Madeline Strawberry Cakes
1 pkg Madelines cut in half the long way
1 small container whipping cream
1 Tbl sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Strawberry's cleaned and sliced
Whip the cream until soft peaks appear (about 5 minutes) add the sugar and the vanilla, mix until blended. Do not over whip the cream or you can have something that looks close to butter (been there done that). Put a dollop of whipped cream on each one (you can be fairly generous with this), place a strawberry on top. Repeat with all the Madelines placing them on a pretty dish as you go along.
I took these and put them in the freezer for about a half an hour before I left just to make sure the cream was firm and it wouldn't droop all over everything by the time we would be eating dessert.
It could not have been easier, I had more than enough for the 30 ladies that were there last night and they were a big hit. Best of all it was cheap! The Madelines were 3.99 for a package of 16, which makes 32 little desserts. The cream was 1.70 and I have no idea how much the strawberries were as I had bought them on my last shopping trip. I probably used about 10 strawberries all told. The entire thing cost me maybe 7.00 which is not inexpensive but still not a budget breaker!
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