Sunday, June 12, 2011

Han Solo's Corellian Chocolate Chip Cookies!


While stationed on Echo Base, General Han solo took time to share his chocolate chip cookie recipe.  I was lucky enough to get the recipe after the assault. I'm pretty sure it's what Lord Vader was looking for.

What you'll need:::

1 cup of white sugar
1 stick of softened butter
1 large egg
1 tsp or about vanilla extract
1/2 tsp of baking powder
1 1/4 cup of flour
1/4 tsp of sea salt but you don't have to if you don't have to.
Chocolate chips!! Lots and lots of chocolate chips!!!



What you'll do::

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Mix the sugar and butter together and resist the urge to taste it. (It's really, really good). Mix the egg, vanilla, and that baking soda to the delicious buttery sugar mess. Stir. I used a fork because I don't have a mixer of any kind. So stir a lot if you have a fork, I'ld imagine not so much if you have an electric mixer.

Combine the flour and salt in a separate bowl and then put in the mix. Then pour in the chocolate chips and eat a few if you want to. (I would) Mix the batter, mix it, MIIIIIX IIIIIT and eat some of it. Then mix the batter some more and eat another spoonful or two.

Place the dough on the cookie sheet and bake! The waiting is horrible but you can eat some more cookie dough to feel better.

Bake for about 18 minutes or until they obviously done.

Let the fresh cookies sit on the pan for five minutes.

Grab some milk and enjoy!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Tattoo Session Numah 2!

Linda over at: http://bireaux-asaucerfulofsecrets.blogspot.com/ came over today to tattoo my sister's boyfriend, Travis. Travis wanted a slutty Bride of Frankenstein and Linda obliged.








Monday, June 6, 2011

A Perfect Day for Bananafish Bread



I love making banana bread. I've been using this simple recipe I found online and just love it. The bread is always moist with a great texture and taste. 

So, here's the recipe I use:
  • 3 or 4 Bananas. Make sure they are all soft and the peels are horrible and black.
  • 1/3 cup butter. The original recipe calls for melted butter but I use super softened butter instead. 
  • 1 cup sugar. With this particular loaf I was running low on sugar and only used 3/4 with no ill effects.
  • 1 egg. Beaten! Beat that egg!!
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • A bit of salt
  • 1 1/2 cup of flour
Preheat the oven to 350.

Smash the bananas in a large bowl. I don't smash them completely but enough. Mix the butter in with the bananas to create a buttery banana goop. Mix the sugar, egg, and the vanilla to the goop. Then mix the baking soda and salt in. Last add the flour and mix your heart out!!

Put the goop in your loaf pan and bake for one hour. ONE HOUR! God it takes forever and after the thirty minute mark your kitchen is going to smell like banana bread and it is going to drive you crazy! But hold fast, refuse to peak and wait for that hour. In that time you can clean the kitchen, the house, do laundry, walk the dog or just smoke a joint but make certain that after that hour you pull out that loaf and behold the splendor that is Banana Bread.

I dubbed my banana bread Bananafish Bread because I'm a nerd. 


Sunday, June 5, 2011

I Feel Like Shooting People

I want to shoot at an event, ideally a science fiction convention but I'll settle as a secondary wedding photographer. Really, just anything where I can weave in and out of a crowd and take candid pictures of people. I get tired of taking pictures of stationary objects...shooting people is a lot more fun. What would be awesome is being a family photographer for a vacation and all I'ld have to do is take pictures of the family while enjoying themselves in Rome and my payment will be travel, food, and lodgings. Or that but with the sci fi convention.

Caution

Thursday, June 2, 2011