Welcome to My Kitchen: December Baking

December.

Eight pounds of butter, fresh from Costco.

A fresh bottle of molasses.

Cinnamon.
It can only mean one thing, really. The Christmas cookie baking has begun!

Welcome to My Kitchen: Pumpkin Carving

Happy Halloween!

I'm not much of a traditional pumpkin carver. I like to heat up my oven as I slice a pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds, and place my pumpkin cut side down on an aluminum foil lined sheet:

And forty-five minutes to an hour later at 375 degrees:

I let my pumpkin halves cool, and scoop out the flesh:

Once it's been run through the blender, I'm really ready for pumpkin pie season:

And I usually have a few extra cups of puree that get frozen for my next pumpkin pie fix:

Welcome to my Kitchen: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Sorry I've been out of commission. Here's a picture of the hole in the pipe underneath my sink to tide you over:
Check back tomorrow for some food, no, not more takeaway.

Welcome to my Kitchen: Cupcake Aftermath

Sometimes the complications in complicated recipes don't really involve the food, but the mess that I make.

Welcome to my kitchen. This is my sink partway through frosting two fresh batches of cupcakes:
The two cupcakes of the two previous posts were made over one 24 hour period!