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Feb 04, 2009 06:40AM
I had some for breakfast, because I forgot it was goodies day and now there's more chocolatey goodness across the way from me.
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yum yum you making me jealous and hungry lol
Kristen, My boys can cook. One day they won't have fiances wishing that... :)What did you do for your criollo? I'm still trying to plan mine out so I haven't hit the store yet...
I did a marshmellow fudge recipe and used some more expensive chocolate chips so that it would taste yummier.
My dad is the one who cooked in my house, so I'm not unused to seeing a guy cook, I just really enjoy cooking and baking, so I don't think it'll be a big deal.
yum yum that sounds wonderful, I may have to try making some after all. You guys are making me really want more. Ill let you know if it ever turns out
Mmm marshmallows in fudge are good. :)
It also makes the fudge easier to cook I think.
didn't know that now you are helping me with ideas thank you
My easiest recipe is something like a bag and a half of chips and a can of evaporated milk. Cooks super easy. :) (nuke it for 30 seconds, stir, do that twice more and pour into a pan. HEHE)
I did a full bag of chocolate chips,small can of evaporated milk, sugar, and marshmellows... I think that was it.
It is very easy to do. Anyone can do it! :)
Kristen, that sounds close to the rec on the marshmallow fluff. It makes a LOT of fudge. I made some at christmas :)
no, this one only made one 9 by 9 pan full. It was just 14 marshmellows.
That's how much my rec makes. That marshmallow fluff one makes like a 13x9. It's like 3 freaking pounds of fudge. More fudge than we can eat. I make it and give away 90% of it. LOL
Yeah, I've done the fluff one, this one is a lighter recipe and I like it better already. Yeah, don't need 3 lbs of fudge lying around.
Three pounds of fudge would do bad things to my weight. LOL So you are right... no laying about... thanks!I like the smaller amounts, it is more manageable!
I just make goodies when my fiance's friends are coming over the next day, that way I have a little, leave the rest out and by the time I get home the next day, there's only what I put aside for myself left.
Lady Ozma wrote: "That's how much my rec makes. That marshmallow fluff one makes like a 13x9. It's like 3 freaking pounds of fudge. More fudge than we can eat. I make it and give away 90% of it. LOL"Now that sounds like a rec for me 3 pound you say yummy yummy
I often make goodies and send to work with hubby. Needless to say I'm very popular at his workplace. :) Meme, it's easy. Go buy some kraft marshmallow fluff. The ingredients are on there. It used to have micro directions, but the jar I got at christmas did not. It's pretty easy, you just dump everything in a bowl but the chips and fluff. Nuke it for 2.5 minutes and stir. Do that three more times. Then dump in the chips and fluff. Stick in a 13x9 pan and cool.
Warning: Once I got creative. I made it with Hershey's Kisses. Tasted great. Looked like poo once it set. So, yeah, don't do that. HAHA Well unless it is just for you. Imagine my surprise after licking the bowl clean when I came back for finished cooled fudge. Yeah. Thankfully I remembered licking the bowl...
LOL yes they does sound interesting and I have decided that I am going to make some as soon as I get to the store because y'all just make it sound very good
hahaha. Ozma, that cracks me up. I actually am not big on licking the bowl when making fudge.. cookies and cakes yes, but not fudge. I don't make goodies for my work because there's always too much and his work is on a health food kick.
I like licking the bowl for fudge. Eh on cakes/brownies. But fudge for sure! Also when I make chocolates, I do the same thing. LOL It was actually pretty funny. WTH do you do with 3 lbs of fudge that looks like poo? I actually did taste tests where I'd make my friends close their eyes and I would make them try it that way. HAHAHA I was in high school at the time. It was real amusing to me.
Now, I'd probably just try to make it actually look like little piles of poo and market it as "make your friends eat poo" or something. But of course, when you are 16 you are too embarrassed to do such a thing!
My husband has a small group. His corner of the office has probably 25-30 people, and his group is about 10. So I make the treats, and they get eaten. :) Of course the other office, with the bulk of the employees, is only a block away. (They are getting a new office in a month so they can all be in one building.) My treats go VERY fast. :)
awww now that is not a good thing. I will lick the bowl of any chocolate cake or fudge it don't matter lolI believe that If I made fudge for my hubby's work he would accidentally drop them so that his buddies at work would not have to eat them LOL he knows me so well
I promise you, these fudge recs I've told you about are foolproof. My mother can't cook ANYTHING and even she can make my fudge!! The woman is a menace in the kitchen. But she can make the fudge and it comes out great! you should try it and see. I'm telling you, no fail! My kids make the smaller fudge. :) Come on, give it a whirl!
PS my baking friend claims the secret ingredient to fudge is using the kitchenade. Not sure why, but she says that is it. That takes too long for me, but Okies.. (OK I also don't have like 8 billion bucks to go and buy one of those things. Who pays 8 billion bucks for a mixer when a whisk is like 2 bucks? LOL! Yes, I'm cheap! And I like my whisks. I own six!)
LOL I have a $5 doller mixer and a whisk, you right you have to love your whisks
$5 mixer I can see. I hear people love their kitchenades. I'm sure that my not understanding the cost is simply because I've never had one. My mum is FAIL in the kitchen, so she doesn't have one. So I grew up just using a whisk. I totally figure the fault is mine due to some sort of lack of education in all things kitchenade. LOL I do love my whisks. I use them for everything. Cookie dough, pasta sauce, fudge, koolaid... hahaha
I just break my arm with a wooden spoon... it's tons of fun. But still easier than my mom's recipe where you stir while its on the stove until your arm does fall off and then you have to pour pour pour before it solidifies. That recipe kills me.
Oh gosh that's the one where you gotta use the candy therm, too. Screw that. Too much work. ROFL Microwave, baby!!!!! :)I used to use wooden spoons, but i kept breaking them. So I just stick to whisks now. :)
LOL the mixer was on a very good sale but I still use my whisk for things other than desserts as for the stove top directions I did actually try to make something (and I cant remember what it was know) it had something to do with chocolate and it killed my arm to stand there stirring, the trick is to have another person with you and trade off the experience LOL
I dont' even know how much mixers cost. My mother couldn't believe I didn't have one and went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and got me one two Christmases ago when we were having The Annual Baking Day. I haven't used it since that day. (Truth be told, once she left I didn't use it again. It sent cookie dough freaking EVERYWHERE in my kitchen. I like cookie dough, but not in my hair or on my ceiling!)
Lady Ozma wrote: "I promise you, these fudge recs I've told you about are foolproof. My mother can't cook ANYTHING and even she can make my fudge!! The woman is a menace in the kitchen. But she can make the fudge..."OK the next time I'm at the store I will get all the ingredients and try to make fudge and we will see if i'm as bad at making that than I am at making most everything else LOL, my hubby might fall over in surprise if he sees me actually cooking LOL
Lady Ozma wrote: "I dont' even know how much mixers cost. My mother couldn't believe I didn't have one and went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and got me one two Christmases ago when we were having The Annual Baking Day. ..."HAHAHAHA I have done that with taters its not a very pretty picture
Try the small one first. Serously, it's like two ingredients. Bag and a half of chips, (that would be whatever kind of chocolate chip you want - not potato chip!) and a can of milk. Dump the two into a microsafe bowl. 30 seconds, stir. 30 seconds, stir. 30 seconds, stir.Put into a small square pan.
Cool.
I like to mix it up and so sometimes I do caramel chips or mint chips or butterscotch chips. :)
Worse that will happen is you will screw it up but you're only out a few dollars and a small amount of fudge. But I had my kids making this when they were like 4 and 5. So I'm figuring you won't mess it up. :)
My kids enjoy cooking. They are now 10 and 12. They do part of the cooking in our house. On my big cooking day on Monday, my 10 year old made our waffles for the freezer while the 12 year old was cracking eggs and I was frying up breakfast sausage! :)
HAHAHA I bet not! Funny potato story
OK, growing up my family is pretty simple on the cooking. You mash potatoes? Get a fork. Mash them up, serve. Who knew there was actually some two dollar utensil called a "potato masher"????
So I get married to my husband. I've boiled potatoes to mash for dinner. THey are not quite done and the doorbell rings. I answer it and it is some ladies from my church. Ooops, forgot they were coming. So my husband says, "Don't sweat it, I'll finish up."
Ten minutes later he comes out and says, "Where's the potato masher?" I'm like 'HUH???????" The ladies are of no help, they look at me clueless.
I said, "Um, aren't there any forks clean?"
He said, "You can't use a fork, you need a masher!"
I said, "Um, I've only seen people mash potatoes with a fork. I don't know what else to tell you. Do you want a spoon?"
The ladies are just sitting there so either they thought I was stupid or they didn't know what a potato masher was either.
He said, "No way am I using a fork. I'll use the blender!"
Ahh, now that elicits a response from the church ladies who with me said varying forms of "are you kidding you crazy?"
I said as he turns back to the kitchen, "Just use a big fork!"
one lady says, "You don't think he's going to use a blender do you?"
"No way," was my reply. "Who would use a blender to make mashed potatoes? And just what would you put it on? Aeroate? Ice crusher?"
We were giggling at the mere thought and then... we heard the blender. So we all three got up and went in and sure enough there's my dork of a husband dumping potatoes into the blender.
So we had potatoshake HAHAHA
Lady Ozma wrote: "HAHAHA I bet not! Funny potato story
OK, growing up my family is pretty simple on the cooking. You mash potatoes? Get a fork. Mash them up, serve. Who knew there was actually some two dollar ..."
LOL I love that story and yes we used a fork growing up too, now I have graduated to a mixer and as you can see I still have problems with it lol
My husband said no one uses forks, just my weird fam! Glad to knwo I'm not alone! Truth be told, I'd probably use the mixer since I have one. But I don't like totally creamy potatoes. I like mine to still have chunks of potato. Probably from the fork thing. ;) My husband prefers them to be totally smooth so I must admit, I generally just make potato flakes. lol I use my whisk to mix them! Or a fork. Old habits die hard!
nope yall aint weird LOL but I like my taters smooth to so the mixer works best
You can have potatoes with my husband. I kind of miss the good mashed potatoes that were actually just mashed. ROFL. All lumpy. Hint of skin. *SIGH*Oh well. :)
see now you are talking about a whole different type of tater if its got the skin then it has to have some lumps in it LOL
LOL Well that's how I like my mashed potatoes. :) That's all I know. But I just make boxed potatoes since my husband likes them real creamy. I've never been able to get it just right for him otherwise. He really is too darn picky
lol try a lot of butter and milk and boil the taters to almost nothing that works most of the time.
Easier to just get potato flakes. :)
that is very true to, my hubby is the opposite he wants taters and he don't care how they are made as long as I have to peel them LOL
Urgh, dinner is always a mess here because of our different eating. I'm pretty good except I don't do most condiments. And I have issues with all things cow. Meat is the worst. My husband however has a long long long long long long list of foods he will and won't do. What he will do usually comes with stipulations. Like mashed potatoes can only be creamy creamy creamy. The only kind of sausage he'll eat is pepperoni or breakfast sausage (like patties or broken up, not links) or kielbasa. You get the picture.
LOL yes I do get the picture I am all about cow and pig but I'm not very picky in my food I like deer too.
Hahahaha I love the potato story! For my beaters, I got them for Xmas. I'm dying for a KitchenAid, but I'll live. I think I have 2 medium and 1 small whisk. My fiance made grilled cheese today and burned his second grilled cheese so the house smells like burnt cheese and butter.
Meme, I've had venison stew. It was pretty good. :) Kristen, glad to amuse. :) I still laugh even though that was like 14 years ago. Too funny! I'd kind of like the kitchenaid but figure I'll live since it's mega bucks and I haven't a clue what I'd actually do with it I can keep making do. I'd never even heard of it until a couple of years ago and now I feel like I'm missing out some sort of American thing. LOL
Ack on the burned grilled cheese!!!! I have a small whisk for like mixing up one or two eggs and the like. I also have several large whisks. I just got a nylon covered whisk which I like very much!
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