itchin' for the kitchen!

So far my blogging has been a success. Twice in one week! Look at me!

I have been looking this morning for recipes for an easy delicious cookie. One that does not take too long to mix up and bake, yet one that calls for only ingredients that I have on hand. However, at this point, that doesn't include much. For example, I don't have a full stick of butter. Anyway, I was determined to find something I could bake before running off to class in just a few minutes. i thought "no-bake cookies!" Perfect. I can mix them up, and then let them cool while i'm gone and when I come home, Voila! Cookies! ..... no chocolate. no peanut butter.
So then, i thought just a basic oatmeal cookie. I have lots of oatmeal. i don't know why, I am only one person yet i have 3 containers of oatmeal. ? I was confused too. I don't even eat oatmeal. Well. No butter so oatmeal cookies were out. In the midst of the frustration and browsing through recipes like "Brown Sugar Pound cake" and "Never Failing Chocolate Cake" and "12-layer Peppermint Cake to Impress your Holiday Guests" and "So good It will knock your socks off" cake and "you can't make me because you don't' have the ingredients" cake...

I gave in. I had determined to just wait until next week and go to the grocery store and carefully select a recipe and buy the particular needed ingredients. but then... it occured to me. I have a TON of leftover tortillas from a few weeks ago. I never eat tortillas, tacos, quesadillas, fajitas...anything of that nature yet i have 8 tortillas staring at me everyday from the bottom shelf of my refrigerator. I think "what can I do with you?" I am craving sweet stuff here and usually with a tortilla that is not the first thought. However, I take two out. Cut them with a pizza cutter into strips. I sprayed them with, I know you won't believe this because I couldn't believe it either It's not butter Butter. Then sprinkled them, okay...smothered them in cinnamon and sugar and baked them in the oven for about 15 minutes.

before the oven...

after 8 minutes, i flipped them and rebuttered and sugared..
the finished product!
(it was too embarrassing to take a picture of the cookie sheet after BFF and I 'tasted a few')

Success!! They were wonderful! A light crispy sweetness. Not too much sweet. Not too much tortilla. Definitely something I will make again.

While they were baking, i decided to clean out my shelf in the cabinet. I have 5 roommates so sometimes the kitchen cabinets can get out of control!
I have more powdered sugar, toffee bits, and oatmeal than I know what to do with. I guess the next step is to find recipes calling for those ingredients...

Sew Addicting!

Matthew 6:34

³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

This weekend BFF and I went home to go fishing with my family. We fished. We scalloped. We gained 3 pounds. BFF had never been fishing. Who managed to catch the only keeper? You guessed it. She did! (pictures soon to come!) It was a great day! We left the house at 8:45 am and returned around 11 pm. Needless to say we slept great that night!

Sunday morning we went to church with mom. After church we ate our catch from the previous day's adventure. Speckled trout and scallops. We also had some shrimp to add in to our meal. Delicious. Not everyday you are able to eat fresh seafood. I wish I had pictures but had I paused to take some, I would have been without lunch.

I have been blog-stalking lately. Ridiculous amounts. I have homework I should do. I should be running or working out. I could study. but no, i'm glued to my computer! I have found sooo many sewing and cooking projects I want to undertake! Maybe in the next few weeks before football season begins I can at least start a few.

Yesterday afternoon, I made a little drawstring bag just to play around. I had no pattern or instructions and I am not an avid sewer by any means. I really just wing it many times and this little bag was a product of that. It ended up being very very small, however, it is the perfect size for my camera!

BFF was watching me sew this little bag and wanted a project so we looked up how to make fabric yo-yos!

(Many do not understand the meaning behind this picture. BFF is NOT the kind of person to ever be caught dead in front of a sewing machine....much less actually SEWING!)

"SEW" addicting! (I couldn't resist). We went last night to buy some fat quarter fabric to use for more yo-yos. Who knows what we will end up doing with them, but the fat quarters are fun! and the ideas are endless! You know how you feel at the beginning of a project. All inspired and ready to make something awesome... then life kicks in and you forget about it and it gets shoved to the back of the closet. not this time!!! this morning I am headed to the fabric store to buy some fabric to attempt to make alittle cosmetic bag. I found a tutorial on hiccups-stuff.blogspot.com and I am dying to make one! I would love a new makeup bag! currently the vinyl one I have is uninteresting and dull really. We'll see what I find! I can't wait. I'm sure there will be pictures galore to come because I have reached a "new year's" resolution, and by year I suppose I am referring to the school year since I am still a student. January resolutions are silly anyway. too many people make them and fail therefore you really have no motivation to keep going. People don't make August resolutions so I am. And they say you are more likely to complete your goal if you write it down soo...

"I am going to try and blog at least once a week about cooking, sewing, projects completed, projects I want to complete, etc. Posts shall be complete with pictures because that is another goal-to take more pictures of my life."

There.