No energy for it, really. Though, I did make some pies this summer, the last batch was with a friend at her parents’ house, and I taught her to do lattice tops. :) We did a large pie and then some cupcake-size ones, so we decided to top a few of those with lattices as well. Fun stuff.

Other than that, even though I haven’t had anything to say for awhile, I’m still here, watching and oogling over pictures of cupcakes etc. :)

I will post pictures of pies when I can dredge up the energy to get all the camara pieces out and get them on my computer. ;)

That’s all for now.  Happy baking!

Ok, HP friends…I don’t have a lot to say about this:

http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/4436

Other than: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! :)

Oreo Cupcakes with an oreo on the bottom and whipped cream oreo frosting. MMM. I made them for a coworker’s 50th birthday (she lives by herself and celebrated last year’s birthday in sick in bed). SO. Hopefully it will be fun. Lucky for ya’ll, I got pictures this time, so as soon as I get my computer back from the shop (and remember to upload) I’ll post them, so you can see! They look pretty for once, actually. Amazing how having the right tools (a good quality piping bag and large guage tip) make it so much easier to make yummy things look pretty. :)

MMM….I was never a huge fan of biscotti. UNTIL I (well, my mother, actually) came across this fabulous recipe in a magazine! Um, yeah. They taste like crunchy brownies but better. :)  And I ALSO never knew how fabulously EASY biscotti was until this recipe (though my kitchenaid begs to differ, it tends to rock a bit on the counter from the thickness of dough towards the end).   Yes, it is just ONE dough that you make, and you make 2 rectangles (flatten them with your hands to about 1/2 inch thick and rectangly), bake them for 25 min, let them cool for 20 min, slice, and bake again for 15 min. Tada.. magic cookies. :)  No, really, I LOVE that I don’t have to be in the kitchen for hours on end putting sheet after sheet in the oven, pulling them out and getting the cookies off the sheets at exactly the right moment. Feels like SO much more work.

On to other news (I will try to post that recipe soon, for all you lovelies who are perhaps now drooling on your keyboards)..

There is a strange part of me these days that is too tired to be creative in cooking. I’m not sure if it’s an emotional tired or physical, but most likely the former. Lots of figuring out going on these days, and though I want to eat well, and treat my body well, and eat lots of cake, I tend to mostly just want to sit shut up in my room with a book and pretend the world does not exist. And not in the content-with-the-world-and-being-quiet-in-it sort of way. More of an I-hate-my-life-and-want-to-pretend-it-doesn’t-exist sort of way. Most of the time. Anyway. This is not a cry for anything, just sharing, and because I can do whatever the hell I want with my own damn blog and don’t have to live up to anyone else’s damn expectations on here. Or so I have to keep telling myself.

Hence why no recent posts (that and I’m horrible at remembering to tell you all about things - I hate writing, it feels like school, like someone even on my own blog is going to be critiquing what I say and how I say it. 

And there you have it folks. On other fronts, my garden seems to be sprouting a bit (zucchini, acorn squash, raspberries, carrots & some flowers). We shall see how they do in the long run…

And off to the races I go again… (probably going to eat some biscotti too…it has been rough having no chocolate other than chocolate chips in the house - there is the compulsion to eat them because they are chocolate but then the sad feeling that they belong IN something that I have no energy to put them in…yeah I like chocolate things)