slacker in some ways!

it's been a little more than a week since i started my "no-name" project and while i'm making some adjustments, i have been right on track with doing something either crafty or bake-y everyday. so yay, me! for that and boo, me for not keeping better track with my blog...that seems to be the one place where i am slacking off. oh, well, i'll try harder over the next weeks to blog every day or at least every other day. maybe slacking off can be what i give up for lent...since i haven't decided what i was going to give up yet. can you give up slacking off?

anyway, back to the blog at hand. sunday i baked chocolate chip cookies for the family using the nestle toll house recipe. yes, i know there are tons of chocolate chip cookie recipes out there and there may even be some that are better than the nestle one, but that's the one i've been making since i was a kid and that's the one that i'm sticking with! we like the bar cookies and this was taken the day after making them, so obviously there's a good chunk missing!

side note: i'm still so non-computer literate and am having "issues" with the whole posting pictures thing, so my apologies if my pics don't match up to what i'm writing about. i'm highly frustrated by the whole thing, but really it doesn't take much to frustrate me these days!

monday i made strawberry mini-muffins for the first time. i had planned on making blueberry ones but jordan said she wanted strawberry and so that won out...luckily i had plenty of strawberries already so no extra grocery trips were needed. i found the recipe online, but cut it in half though since it yielded 24 regular size muffins and i knew we wouldn't eat that many before they went bad. i got everything together and realized that you can't let melted butter sit for too long because it starts to solidify itself again...that was the only "surprise" of the whole thing. it was a very easy recipe to follow and was just enough to fill the 24 mini-muffin tin. i had to adjust the time since mini and regular muffins bake at different lengths...i guessed at about 16 minutes, only to turn the oven off and take them out at about 14 minutes. and just to show that i am not the cleanest of bakers, i am sharing a pic of the messy utensils & bowls that i used to make the mini muffins.

 

so, no complications or problems with the 2 items i baked over the last 2 days. and today, rather than bake something i am trying my hand at chicken jambalaya...i really hope it turns out since it's our only dinner option! i'll have to remember to blog all about it tomorrow!  

i have finished jordan's scarf and have started working on the afghan for luke. i'll have to post pics of the finished scarves, i keep forgetting to take them though. the skirts i was orginally going to work on last week got put on hold because one now needs more fabric than i anticipated since i don't really want my near 5 year old walking around in a mini skirt! plus, i just felt like crocheting more than i felt the urge to sew!