Archive | December, 2008

Peanut Butter and Honey Sandwich

31 Dec

This sandwich is a classic for when I just don’t feel like making anything. Use less honey than in the photos, unless you enjoy a goopy sandwich like I do.


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Ingredients

  • 2 slices of bread
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter
  • Honey

Directions

  1. Toast the bread
  2. Butter the bread
  3. Spread peanut butter on bread
  4. Drizzle honey on top of peanut butter
  5. Slap together and enjoy!

You will note that I neatly sliced (pun intended) my bread. I do this as with the quantity of honey that I use, the sandwich is quite rich and I have much difficulty eating it all at once. If I do not have a tall glass of milk, I find it most impossible to finish at all.

Cake Wrecks

22 Dec

“When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.” I had spent forever looking for this site after hearing about it at a conference. Everyone was referring to it as cake wreckers, so I tried cakewreckers.blogspot.com and other such things, always unsuccessful.

The real site is cakewrecks.blogspot.com, and it is a wonderful time waster for a snow day afternoon.

My current favorite is Fail Blog worthy the ultimate cake fail:
Fail Blog Worthy

How to Roast Almonds

19 Dec

I made a delicious pasta that required a mix-in of chopped roasted almonds. Having no roasted almonds, but tons of raw almonds, I decided to roast my own plain almonds.

  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Line a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with aluminum foil
  3. Lay your almonds on the cookie sheet in a single layer
  4. I coated my almonds with cooking spray to help it retain moisture, but you could also brush on vegetable oil for the same effect
  5. Bake in oven for 8-10 minutes

And you’re done! Yummy! I’d like to try this with olive oil instead of cooking spray – I am interested in the flavor differences between olive oil and normal vegetable oil.

After this I used a utility knife to chop the almonds into equal sized pieces, but you could also use a food chopper if you wanted to save time. I sometimes use my KitchenAid Food Chopper – difficult to clean, but faster than a knife and cutting board.

Firefork: Campfire Poker

5 Dec

If you’re just building your camping supplies and you don’t want to invest in a series of campfire pokers for marshmallows and hotdogs, try the Firefork! Rather than using a gross stick you found in the woods, the Firefork is attached to the end of this stick, and then you place your food on the end of the clean pokers.

Firefork

It is pictured with a protective guard on the pokers, of course.

Need to pay with £? Visit pedlars.co.uk for the same deal.