Due to a bunch of crap I can't control at work, I have really been taking charge in the kitchen since I can control that. It has been an overall great experience. Here is a recap of what I have cooked up recently:

- Tomato, avocado, and feta soup

- Broccoli, potato, and carrot casserole with cream sauce

- Tofu parmesan with spätzle and tomato sauce

- Cream of broccoli and ginger soup

- Roasted garlic pizza with spinach, tomatoes, and goat cheese (and hommade crust!)

And, of course, Broom has been cooking too and we have both been really enjoying eating each other's cooking and taking leftovers to work. Despite lots of crap going on, life is damn good! Gotta remember how lucky we are and that we will be able to have it all and things will work out.


What have you been cookin'?

Year in Review

2011 has contained quite a bit (in no real order):

I got re-hired and entered a completely different field!
Broom got a new job- and her dream job to boot!
We moved.
I won a cooking competition.
We traveled through Europe on our own and with my parents.
Family reunion in the US and Chicago trip.
Lots of research for what we need to do for offspring was performed.
We bought a new car.
I started this blog.
We survived Christmas.

2012 is gearing up to be a quieter year- although there is considerable doubt that it will stay that way:

Paying off said car.
Starting with insemination.
Getting the rest of our crap put away/perdy!


It is still the beginning of Jan, so this post is still perfectly acceptable!


Happy Wednesday!

I AM Miss Culinaria 2011!

I hate to brag (being a leo and all), but I tried out a recipe a few weeks ago for the first time.
(Getting this in shortly after 2011 ended counts, right?)

It started off with me worrying about whether or not the dough was raising too much.

So puffy!

But the rolls formed nicely.

And turned out like this!

 But it totally worked out! (As you can see above.) Although Broom and I didn't like it as much as everyone else, as they were calling out which recipe won which place, I was utterly shocked to be number 1. I got a perdy sash and a trophy that I can keep for the year and bring back, filled with goodies (and my name written upon it) to the next lesbo brunch competition in 1 year. It felt good.


And I have this lovely blog to thank. When I read it I always want to cook or bake.
(And always makes me salivate!) And I've made this so much that my friends call it crack dip.


How I love it so.

Christmas PTSD

So, my broom has this awesome habit that started last year.


She likes to scream HAPPY NEW YEAR at pretty much any time you are not expecting it, making you jump out of your skin, since she screams IN YOUR FACE.


In honor of Christmas, this lovely habit has expanded.


*Fade in to scene: us sleeping, 4 am on the 24th* (It is debatable if that really counts as Christmas, but since that is when you open gifts here, we will agree to disagree.)

Me: "Zzzzzzzzz" (obvs. sleeping)

Broom: MERRY CHRISTMAS! (In my *ucking face, obvs. lost her damn mind.)


*Fade into today*

Plotting revenge, while looking like this:










Feel free to send suggestions!