As I stated during my last post, I during Halloween I made Martha Stewart's Bat Wings. Now, our dear friends always allow me to test my dishes out on them. Lucky for me, she is an excellent cook so there is always something else to eat and in the event I accidently poision us with one of my dishes, he is in the medical profession!
Anyway, back to the bat wings. The recipe calls for bean sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar and black food coloring. You marinate the chicken wings from two to 12 hours turning them every 30 minutes. My problem with the dish was that my wings were too big!! I should have purchased a more lean wing. The other problem was that I had never purchased a bean sauce or oyster sauce and at 6:00am, no one in Wal-Mart knew what the hell I was talking about. So, I had to leave Wal-Mart in Mt. Juliet and drive to Publix to find it. When I got to Publix I stared at the shelf for 15 minutes before I found the bean sauce. While I could have called several people to help me, there was no one I dared call at 6:45 am to ask about bean sauce. I found the recipe quite delicious except I could only eat a half a wing. Why, I was exhausted from making cake pops.
So, I bet you wonder how bat wings and a gingerbread house are related. Let me tell you. This evening, I get in the car and my son tells me he has signed us up to participate in a gingerbread house contest. Luckily my husband was driving!!!!!! I see flashes of everyone laughing. The worst part is the kid believes we have a chance to win $100.00!!! Is he insane?? Hell, maybe I should just give him the $100.00. I wanted so bad to say son, let me put $100.00 in your savings account but instead, I said "sure, we can enter the contest." So, the real question is, is there a therapist out there somewhere??? I NEED HELP!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Ghost Pops
I bet you thought I had given up cooking! The answer is no. Since my last post, I have made a variety of dishes . Some winners and some well, lets just say, not winners.
This past weekend was Halloween and I decided I was going to cook something. This is the second year we have spent the holiday with friends dressing up and sending the kids out with the dads to trick or treat. The difference this year was I decided I was going to bake and cook. I searched the internet and decided on two things. Cupcake pops and Martha Stewart's Spicy Bat Wings.
Let me tell you, for a novice, I should have slit my wrists!!!! The recipes sounded easy so Saturday at 6am I found myself at Wal-Mart purchasing the items with excitment. I purchased the cake mix and frosting. White chocolate (the choices for white chocolate gave me a headache--to microwave or not microwave, that was the question). All this for the cake. For the wings, chicken wings, black bean sauce and oyster sauce (foreign to the Wal-Marth staff--got it at Publix).
Anyway, for the cupcake pops, I baked the cake, of course I licked the bowel, are you insane, I love cake batter! Once it was done and cooled, I crumbled it up and added the frosting to it. It was to make 45-50 balls(roll it by hand). Of course being me I was not going to make that many damn balls and decided to make mine larger. Big mistake. I then read the recipe again and you had to freeze them to let the chocolate cool you put on the lollipops you inserted in the cupcake ball. Now, you understand why you don't make them large. Mine were too heavy to lift in the freezer!!!! So, here I am with 23 large cupcake balls that won't freeze. So, I took the smaller of the 23, 10 to be exact and rolled them in the chocolate I had melted. They turned out beautifully! Well, not that beautiful. You see, they were a little weird looking because they would not roll in the chocolate but they were perfect for Halloween. What happened to the other 13 cupcake balls??? I threw them out, I was late for the party!
Next time, I will tell you about the wings!
This past weekend was Halloween and I decided I was going to cook something. This is the second year we have spent the holiday with friends dressing up and sending the kids out with the dads to trick or treat. The difference this year was I decided I was going to bake and cook. I searched the internet and decided on two things. Cupcake pops and Martha Stewart's Spicy Bat Wings.
Let me tell you, for a novice, I should have slit my wrists!!!! The recipes sounded easy so Saturday at 6am I found myself at Wal-Mart purchasing the items with excitment. I purchased the cake mix and frosting. White chocolate (the choices for white chocolate gave me a headache--to microwave or not microwave, that was the question). All this for the cake. For the wings, chicken wings, black bean sauce and oyster sauce (foreign to the Wal-Marth staff--got it at Publix).
Anyway, for the cupcake pops, I baked the cake, of course I licked the bowel, are you insane, I love cake batter! Once it was done and cooled, I crumbled it up and added the frosting to it. It was to make 45-50 balls(roll it by hand). Of course being me I was not going to make that many damn balls and decided to make mine larger. Big mistake. I then read the recipe again and you had to freeze them to let the chocolate cool you put on the lollipops you inserted in the cupcake ball. Now, you understand why you don't make them large. Mine were too heavy to lift in the freezer!!!! So, here I am with 23 large cupcake balls that won't freeze. So, I took the smaller of the 23, 10 to be exact and rolled them in the chocolate I had melted. They turned out beautifully! Well, not that beautiful. You see, they were a little weird looking because they would not roll in the chocolate but they were perfect for Halloween. What happened to the other 13 cupcake balls??? I threw them out, I was late for the party!
Next time, I will tell you about the wings!
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