5 posts tagged “valentines day”
Earlier this week when former Voxer Erin (who now lives at Erincooks.com) posted the recipe for these awesome treats on her blog. As soon as I saw them I knew I had to make them.
I got some static from the kids around the house about my plan to make these, "why would you make something that you could just buy for twenty cents at the store?!" I decided I was going to make them anyway, criticism be damned.
After tracking down all the ingredients (paraffin wax is surprising hard to find) I got to work.
In her notes on this recipe Erin says to beware, it is very sticky.
Man, was than an understatement.
On a scale of 1-10 of stickiness the batter was at 20. I had to keep
kneading and kneading and adding sugar, I thought it would never form
the right consistency.
Eventually it did and all was well but for a good 15 minutes I was worried that I was going to have to throw the towel in.
I won't go into the details on how to make these, instead I'll just link you to Erin's post.
http://erincooks.com/2009/02/02/heart-patties/
This year The Wife and I got each other paintings unbeknownst to each other.
She got me this one.
And I got her this one.
VDay Taken Care Of.
If you worked with me you could have had one of these today.
The ladies in the office are calling me Chef-Boy-Ar-Gene ('cuz that's my real name.)
They mock me and my baking skillz, but they are just jealous over my win during the Halloween baking contest.
At X-Mas I made a gag X-Mas greeting for my homie Sly Philly's & my sisters MySpace featuring some old school pro-black rappers.
A Very Hip-Hop X-Mas
I planned one for New Years but was ill and didn't get around to it.
For Valentines day I tossed this together tonight.
Ordered The Wife's VD gift today.
Thanks to my homies at the Bridge Street Gallery in Cambria.
She was the Gallery's very first customer buying a painting by the same artist (Cathy Nichols.)
This makes our third piece by the same artist.
Now I need to be sure I stay logged out of VOX on all my home machines so she can't accidentally see this post.
