Baking: cookies and cakes

I love to cook, and I usually cook at least one meal 5-6 days out of the week on average.

However I also love to bake. Usually those around me have to exercise or they end up gaining weight.
I used to make a joke if I can’t lose weight, I will just make everyone else around me weight more.

Seriously I enjoy baking cookies. My favorite cookie to make and eat are my chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. (I’ll give you a secret, I use the “The Joy of Cooking” Oatmeal cookie recipe. I just add a lot of chocolate chips. ) They are soft, chewy, and or course have chocolate.

I also love to bake cakes. I prefer chocolate, but I have made layered cakes and even pineapple upside down cake.

I will be honest though I’m not that great at decorating cakes, but family are just happy that is edible, not burnt, and tastes good.

Soupy Weekend

Out kitchen situation is very complicated. We got an opportunity to be in a kitchen large enough for all three of us to cook. So Saturday (March 9^th) we decided to make stew and soups.

Zeroman made Stew. It was extremely peppery and favoriful. It should be sold in diners. It was a bit thin on the first day, but it thicken up by the second day. I forgot to get a picture.

Turtle, Zeroman, and I made cheesy broccoli soup and Clam chowder. They were awesome and lasted almost four days. We also made biscuits and fish with it.

Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Soup. It was very creamy and rich. I had hold myself back from over eating. I enjoyed the larger chunks of broccoli and chicken.

Clam chowder. It was full of clam and had amazing rich and flavorful creamy broth. It was a bit thinner than I want. However it turned out awesome for our first try at Clam Chowder.

To end an awesome Soup and Stew Saturday,
I even made a fruit cocktail yellow dump cake.
It’s simple empty a can or two of fruit cocktail on the bottom with the liquid. Then make a yellow cake mix and pour over.
Bake at 350 just as cake box suggests.

You can serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Sunday (March 10^Th) Turtle and I took left over biscuits, some ham, 3 minute eggs, and then drizzled the left over cheese soup over all of it. It was our simplified Eggs Benedict for breakfast. . . it was awesome. I almost just as good as a hollandaise sauce.

Intro with the cooks.

I’m Beck.
However since I’m about to invite you into my virtual kitchen, I like to be on personal first name basis.
You can call me Beck, just do not call me late for dinner. LOL. (I’m corny, just a warning.)
My best dish is my seven layer lasagna.

I bake as well as cook.

I usually do NOT do my cooking alone.
I also cook with my brother, we call him Turtle.
His best dish is Chicken Cordon Blue.

And our neighbor we call him Zeroman.
His best dish is seafood pasta salad.

We all have different backgrounds in cooking and have all started to cook at very early ages.

Zeroman went to school for culinary.

My brother and I both have pulled our cooking skills from different family members.

If know what is in something, we can pretty much make anything.

Random things

Turtle loves his spicy foods. I cannot do hot.

I love comfort foods and many sweets.

Zeroman usually has a mixture of sweet and salty snacks when we hang out.

So I like to share our culinary and food interests with others out there.

We all need food, so we might as well enjoy it.