OO! Recipes!
Lately, I've been living on this:
Steamed white rice
butter/margarine to taste
kosher salt/pepper
flax seeds
...It's WAY better than I thought it would be, considering the simplicity of it (I'm poor at the moment, so I have to eat cheap). Sometimes I microwave a Boca vegan pattie and mush it up then mix it it...Delicious! And I lost 8 lbs this past week and a half by mostly eating rice. YAY!
Best chocolate cake EVER! Black Midnight Cake (Betty Crocker) and my icing recipe
Ingredients
* 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour or cake flour (do not use self-rising flour)
* 1 2/3 cups sugar
* 2/3 cup cocoa
* 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 1/4 cups water
* 3/4 cup shortening
* 2 eggs (1/3 to 1/2 cup)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour pans. 13x9x2 or two 9 inch or three 8 inch round layer pans. Measure all ingredients into large mixer bowl.Blend 1/2 minute on low speed, scraping bowl constantly. Beat 3 minutes high speed, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan(s).
2. Bake oblong about 45 minutes, layers 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick insterted in center comes out clean. Cool.
ICING: (it's the fluffiest icing I've ever seen)
1/2 cup butter/margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
4 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
3.5 to 4 tablespoons of milk
2 teaspoons vanilla (I think)
Cream butter and shortening. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time along with 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder, beating on medium between each. Add milk. Beat until fluffy. Add vanilla. Beat briefly (just to mix it in evenly).
For regular butter cream, don't add cocoa and use 3 tablespoons of milk. Everything else is the same.
BISCUITS (not cookies, for all you Brits
)
This "recipe" is relative. My grandmother and mother never measured, so I don't measure. I make a mean biscuit though!
Preheat oven at 400 degrees F.
Self rising flour (just guess...9 heaping spoonfuls in a large spoon should make about 16 biscuits)
a bit of baking powder AND baking soda (just shake a little in there
)
shortening (or shortening/butter mix)
mix shortening and flour with your hands until it's even and it sticks together a bit (like if you squeeze and handful and it holds the shape...not as sticky as playdoh, though).
add buttermilk a little at a time until it's a wet-sticky. It should stick to your hands (basically, it's messy).
Knead flour into it. I like to use wax paper with flour on it and then I put some on top until it's mostly not sticky anymore (you don't want it too heavy...as long as the outside isn't sticky, you're good). Roll it out with a rolling pin (or just flatten it with your hands) until it's about 1/2 inch or so thick. Use a glass/plastic cup to make biscuits. Just keep rerolling it out until you use all the dough.
Put cookie sheet in oven with shortening on it. Let shortening melt.
Take cookie sheet out. Swipe the biscuits on one side then set them on the other on the sheet (both sides should have shortening on it
).
Cook at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. So good...
I love food...
oh yeah...if you don't have buttermilk, just use regular milk and baking powder only.
