quidditchgrrl: (*pout*)

I wanted to make something for our staff this morning, to help with the mood for our "Read to Your Baby" festival (aka the parade of drugged families).

I had a recipe for Apple raisin spice muffins.  But when I added the liquid ingredients to the dry, the result was instant glutenation, like I'd overmixed by 300x.  Milk didn't help, and ew gross.

Rereading the recipe, I see that it calls for whole wheat pastry flour rather than regular.  Yeah, that might cause a little bit of toughness.  :\

*offers up mushroom and onion omelet to baking gods*

*tosses huge quantity of formerly edible food*

*prepares pre-packaged banana bread mix for co-workers*

quidditchgrrl: (Grr!)
I should know better than to try my culinary hand the night before a big to-do.

Good thing I bought the fixin's for my mother's super-fabulous taco salad instead of counting on making cheesecake bites for the going-away party we're having for a couple of our staff who are leaving.

Honeybunch will be happy; he doesn't care about presentation so there are a dozen mangled cheesecake bites just for him.

Also, instant cheesecake filling doesn't taste as good without the accompanying instant graham-cracker crust, but warm graham-cracker crust is disgusting.

I hate that I get horrible nerves when it comes to hosting anything - even a little potluck thing like this. I can get up in front of a bazillion people and lecture about social styles in the workplace, but I can't get over having to decorate a 12'x12' room and put a tablecloth down. Geez.

Other things on job front aren't going anywhere, and so far it looks like I'm not either. Just need to get through June, then Grand, then Lumos...one step at a time, one day at a time.
quidditchgrrl: (This is not groovy!)
Help! Call the *waaahhhhbulance*!

I'm having cookie trouble!

I've attempted the recipe on the Toll House chocolate chip cookie bag. No nuts. So far, so good.

When I bake them, however. They seem to have flattened out, with a ring of dough around the edges and the chocolate chips in the middle. The chips have melted along the bottom and the dough is a bit greasy/shiny.

The oven was at the right temp (although it's electric and can randomly change temp) for the cookies, 375 degrees for 9 minutes.

*wails* Advice! I'm desperate! Ransom will be considered.

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