Brownies

Brownies, first time I've made them from scratch.. turned out awesome & super chocolatey

• ¾ cup Butter
• 10 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate, coarsely chopped (you could use semi-sweet instead)
• 1 cup Sugar
• ¾ cup All-Purpose Flour
• ½ tsp. Baking Powder
• ¼ tsp. Salt
• ½ cup Mini Chocolate chips
• 4 Eggs
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. Line a 9" square baking dish with foil, keep and overhang, (so once the bronwies are cooked, you can just pop them out to cool) and coat with cooking spray.
3. In a large (microwave safe) bowl, add chopped chocolate, and butter together. & Heat in 1 min intervals until melted.
4. Stir until smooth, and let cool to room temperature.
5. Combine sugar, flour, baking powder, & salt. Stir in mini chips. Set Aside.
6. Take the cooled chocolate & butter mixture, and beat eggs & vanilla into it.
7. Stir in the sugar/flour mix, into the chocolate & butter mix until blended
8. Spread batter in pan & bake 35-45 mins until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Tangy Sweet & Sour Sauce

This sauce is amazing. I love it. and whenever i muster up the energy for me to make a batch of [from skratch] meatballs, i make this sauce. But i've had it on rice, and i would probably eat it on chicken.

• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 3 tbsp Flour
• 1 cup Water
• ¼ cup Pineapple Sauce
• ¼ cup Rice vinegar (can use white vinegar as well, it's just slightly more tangy)
• 3 tbsp soy sauce

1. Mix all ingredients in a large frying pan
2. Allow to simmer for 15 minutes

-If you want to cook anything (meatballs, ribs, chicken pieces) in the sauce it self, put in before the full 15 minutes has run out, otherwise your sauce will wind up very thick.
-Also, if you are adding any meat to cook in the sauce, make sure it's either completely cooked or almost completely cooked.

Clam Chowder

[Just a quick note, my boyfriend is a big boy. He eats more than normal sized people. So when i cook things, I cook things in astronomical amounts.]

• 1 Whole pack of Bacon, chopped


• 2-3 Medium Onions, chopped (Red or White)


• 4 Medium-Large Potatoes, cubed


• 3 Cans of Baby Clams, Juice reserved


• 3 cups Half & Half cream


• 3 tbsp Butter

1. Fry the bacon until almost crisp


2. Add chopped onions, fry until translucent


3. Move bacon & onions to soup pot


4. Pour in Clam juice, & add chopped potatoes


5. Cook potatoes until they're fork tender (15 mins)


6. Add in half & half cream, and clams


7. Heat through.

You can either serve immidiately or allow to heat for as long as you want to combine the flavours. Do not boil the creamy mixture though.

Makes 8-10 Servings

Carrot Cake

• 1 cups, Coarsly chopped pecans/walnuts
• 2 ½ cups, Finely grated carrots
• 2 cups, Flour
• 1 tsp, Baking soda
• 1½ tsp, Baking powder
• ½ tsp, Salt
• 1½ tsp, Ground cinnamon
• 4 Eggs
• 1½ cups, White sugar
• 1 cup, Vegetable oil
• 2 tsp, Vanilla Extract

1. Preheat oven to 350°
   
2. Grease pans
3. Toast pecans/walnuts for 8 minutes & then chop
4. Grate carrots, set aside.
5. Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt & cinnamon
6. Beat eggs until frothy (1 Min)
7. Gradually add sugar & beat until batter is thick & light coloured (3-4 mins)
8. Add oil in steady stream & beat in vanilla extract
9. Add flour & beat until just mixed.
10. With spatula fold carrots & nuts in batter.
11. Bake 30-40 Mins

(And of course, Cream Cheese frosting, 8 oz cream cheese, 1-1½ cups icing sugar, beaten until smooth, you can also include roughly a cup of shredded coconut as well)

First Post

Just a quick explaination of this blog & myself.

I used to blog a lot, and since i've lost my ability to write.
I'm 22 at the moment, living with my mom, but it's been 4.5 years since the last time i lived with her.
I've spent the last 3.5 years with my boyfriend, living together, we're now taking time apart, since out relationship seemed to have fallen apart at the seams. but now we see each other and we're trying to work things out
I live in Oshawa, before I lived in Cobourg for 18 years.
I learned to cook after moving in with Shawn (boyfriend) taught myself. last year i started baking on a whim.
I'm going to [hopefully] be going to school in the fall for something art related.

Now that my boyfriend lives in peterborough & i in oshawa, i wanted to have my recipes more accessable from where ever i happen to be, so this is where i plan to keep track of them.

Oh, and my name is Michelle.