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Easter fun

angela — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:35:56 +0000

Well, once again we’ve let our blogging slip. For Easter we made these cute cookies! Jon did most of the work, rolling out the dough and actually cutting out the shapes. Then I sprinkled the colored sugar on. In one of our recipe books we found out you can make your own colored suger by dropping a few drops of food coloring in normal sugar and then stirring it up! Came out pretty good, with a little clumping. I think it’d work better if we had started with a courser grain sugar. Jon made a giant dinosaur egg patterned cookie and it was by far our best tasting cookie!

Here’s the recipe we used (I give it 5 stars!): http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/The-Best-Rolled-Sugar-Cookies/Detail.aspx

Mochi-tsuki

angela — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:37:39 +0000

Last weekend we went to a mochi making festival on Microsoft campus! We got to see how mochi is traditionally made and we got to taste some fresh mochi! First the sticky rice is cooked in square wooden containers. After it is cooked it’s placed in a large “bowl” made out of stone. Wooden mallets are used to smash the rice until it forms a paste. They keep the mallets wet so the paste doesn’t stick too much to the mallets. After a lot of beatings and mashing the mochi is ready to go! The mochi is then portioned out and rolled into a ball and filling is put into it. It was a lot of fun!

Mochi Bowl

Pounding the Mochi

More Mochi Pounding

Rolling Mochi Balls

Apples!!!

jon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:28:19 +0000

We bought tons of apples. Double the amount seen in the picture (we have a whole separate bag of them). We eat them while we’re knitting our hats and watching our zillions of movies.

We have this GREAT apple corer/cutter that saves tons of time. I think that if we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t be eating apples at all.

Here’s a video of it in action:

Apple cutting demo

Cinnamon ice cream

angela — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:31:21 +0000

We tried this recipe out this week http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cinnamon-Ice-Cream/Detail.aspx. Even though it says “cinnamon” we think it tastes more like snickerdoodle ice cream. Jon was hoping it’d be like a cinnomon gelato he had at Cinzetti’s in Colorado. It was still yummy even though it only made 1/2 as much as your average ice cream recipe.

Homemade bagels!

angela — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:21:58 +0000

Last Monday we made these bagels for FHE http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bread-Machine-Bagels/Detail.aspx

They came out great! The bagels were a lot easier to make than anticipated. Even though the recipe says it’s specifically for bread machines you would be able to make them by hand (it’d just take a lot longer). Once the dough was done all we had to do was shape it, boil them for a minute then throw them in the oven! If you follow the recipe as is it should come out great.