Holiday Challenge
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dunnodunno wrote: »Two servings of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Froyo.
Did you find that to be any good? If I recall correctly Amber told us months ago that it was not good.
I didn't like the base. It felt really hard and icy to me. But then, I usually feel that way about froyo unless it's soft serve. I've only had a couple of brands that I thought were good.
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Friday night I went to a concert with some girlfriends so we ate at a bar so that we could get in and out quickly. We decided to just do appetizers - potato skins, chicken tenders, spinach artichoke dip, and thai chili shrimp. Oh and beer. I haven't that much fried food in one sitting since starting MFP I don't think.
Saturday night we went to a holiday party so there were a lot of appetizers: buffalo chicken dip, meatballs, sliced brats, cheese and crackers, 7 layer dip, cookies. Oh and wine.
Sunday my 6 year old son had a homework assignment to help prepare a meal that reflected a holiday tradition from his ancestors. We decided to do ravioli, which is what my mother in law always made for Christmas Eve dinner. We just did frozen ravioli and a jar of sauce with a loaf of premade garlic bread so that he could really cook it all himself, but it was fun to have him in the kitchen. My youngest son got jealous of the time in the kitchen with mommy so he insisted on putting on the apron after dinner and making some break and bake cookies with me. Nothing we made was particularly complex but we had a lot of fun and I need to do that more often with the kids.
Aww. I had a lot of fun learning to cook as a kid. I think I learned my grandma's bread recipe when I was about 8 or 9. I remember not being able to really knead the dough properly.0 -
dunnodunno wrote: »Two servings of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Froyo.
Did you find that to be any good? If I recall correctly Amber told us months ago that it was not good.
Like with most Ben & Jerry's flavors I found it to be good, but not great. Like Acrylics said it was very hard while scooping it out of the carton & the froyo started to bend the first spoon I used to scoop it out. The only Ben & Jerry's flavor I could literally inhale in one sitting is Cinnamon Buns.
I should've had Turkey Hill's Chocolate Malt Chip or Whoopie Pie instead.0 -
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes
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Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Planning to make some toffee shortbread cookies tomorrow night.
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1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
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Day 12: SCTC, Raisin Bread Pudding
Day 13: I'm having the same thing. Maybe add in a 3 Musketeers Hot Cocoa Mini.0 -
Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes)
Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: Instead of cookies I decided to try out two new cupcake recipes today. One of them Mr. Acrylics has been wanting me to make for . . . a year or more I guess. It's a whiskey chocolate cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate buttercream. I haven't tried it yet but the bit of frosting I tasted wasn't super sweet so I don't know how that will be. The other one is the Georgetown Salted Caramel Cupcake/Salted Caramel Buttercream. I'm a big fan of this one. I cut the salt in half though because I don't like things super salty and it seems about right for me-- just a hint of salty. I may need to add more for customers.
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dunnodunno wrote: »dunnodunno wrote: »Two servings of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Froyo.
Did you find that to be any good? If I recall correctly Amber told us months ago that it was not good.
Like with most Ben & Jerry's flavors I found it to be good, but not great. Like Acrylics said it was very hard while scooping it out of the carton & the froyo started to bend the first spoon I used to scoop it out. The only Ben & Jerry's flavor I could literally inhale in one sitting is Cinnamon Buns.
I should've had Turkey Hill's Chocolate Malt Chip or Whoopie Pie instead.
Wait, are you saying you don't like the Half Baked ice cream?????
Not that I don't like it, but it tasted pretty meh compared to some of the other flavors I've been eating recently.
Tonight had a cup of Turkey Hill Chocolate Malt Chip & almost three ounces of brownie brittle.0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
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Tonight going to eat some Turkey Hill Whoopie Pie ice cream.0
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Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies that are so popular at Christmas time... both from the work bake sale0 -
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes)
Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey. The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.0 -
ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey.
Preaching to the choir (despite not having tasted the cake obviously!)The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.
How did the Salted Caramel Buttercream compare? I know you tasted and reported just after baking, but curious if you've had another since then. I'm enjoying following your baking experiments as I am sure many others are.
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey.
Preaching to the choir (despite not having tasted the cake obviously!)The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.
How did the Salted Caramel Buttercream compare? I know you tasted and reported just after baking, but curious if you've had another since then. I'm enjoying following your baking experiments as I am sure many others are.
I haven't had a second one but I'm planning to have one tomorrow so I'll let you know. I might try drizzling a little extra caramel sauce on top.0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
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Day 14: SCTC, Raisin Bread Pudding
All out of bread pudding now, so I'll have to come up with some other festive treat.0 -
The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow0 -
Got some of this at Target today and decided to give it a whirl...
They're pretty good. Definitely has that eggnog flavor! I also made some fudge, and I put some of the leftover unrefrigerated (hot) fudge on my cookie. Talk about a mouthgasm. Warm eggnog cookie + semi-hot fudge = /drool0 -
Today I was a big Fatty! I had a whole bar of Ghiradelli Intense Dark Toffee Interlude & a whole bar of Lindt White Coconut. I also had a Starbucks drink & ice cream.0
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow
{emphasis added}
No Jeni's in my area, and no idea of the breadth of their flavor options, but methinks I am detecting a theme in your choices . . .
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes)
Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: dark chocolate whiskey cupcake
Day 15: salted caramel cupcake-- just as good as the first time.
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow
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No Jeni's in my area, and no idea of the breadth of their flavor options, but methinks I am detecting a theme in your choices . . .
Yea there is a theme in my choices
There isn't one in my area either, supposed to have a place sort of close that will be carrying some but since I live in a beach community their off season hours suck. Luckily you can order them online which I can't afford to do often but it's a nice treat. http://shop.jenis.com/ice-creams/0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
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Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
(why do I feel like I'm a day ahead)?0 -
Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
(why do I feel like I'm a day ahead)?
I misquoted one of mine...so now I feel like a day behind..0 -
Day 16: Homemade fudge & Ben & Jerry's chocolate therapy0
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]1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
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