I know I've been a bit behind recently...I had some computer problems, eek! I will be back at school tomorrow and hopefully I'll have a bit of time to put of the posts that I haven't had time to write, including....
-- How to wrap a present
-- Christmas Cookies
-- Elf on the Shelf Updates
And more! Sorry I've been so behind with my updates. But they'll be coming soon!
-Coco
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Jack Daniels Honey Ribs & Grilled Peaches
Naturally, I wasn't willing to pay $375 for a ticket like one of my roommates, so I decided to stay home and get stuff done. But of course, gameday was not as productive as I would have hoped. Instead, I slept in, and then started brainstorming my epic meal. What was I going to cook? As if it was fate, my mom called while I was looking through my "Grill It!" cookbook to tell me about an amazing rib recipe one of her friends had just told her about. So, naturally, that's what I decided to cook. Ribs with Jack Daniel's BBQ Sauce and Honey with a side of Grilled Peaches. Mmmm, that sounds good.
THE RIBS
2. Season the ribs with some salt, pepper and either Tony Chachere's (or another Cajun spice) OR salt, pepper, garlic powder and spice (like cayenne pepper).
3. Wrap the ribs in aluminum foil. They need to be wrapped VERY tightly.
-- I wrapped them first in an overly large piece, folding it over itself, rolling it up and crumpling it to seal the ribs.
-- Then I used another normal-sized piece to wrap around it, just to make sure it was perfectly sealed.
-- It is smart to put a baking sheet with a piece of foil over it on the rack under the ribs. They may (as mine did) drip, and you don't want juice accumulating in the bottom of your oven. I learned this the hard way.
5. When your ribs are cooked, take them out of the oven and set aside.
-- While they are cooking, you can make the sauce and light the grill.
THE RIB SAUCE
-- Heat on medium until the butter is melted and stir until it is well combined.
-- Pour in 1c of Jack Daniel's Original No. 7 Recipe Sauce. Heat and stir until well combined.
-- Add more honey to your taste (but read the next step before adding more).
-- Set aside to use later.
7. Combine 1/4 stick (2tbsp) butter and 2 tbsp honey in another small saucepan.
-- Heat on medium until the butter is melted and stir until it is well combined.
-- Once your ribs are cooked, cover the ribs in this butter and honey sauce. I used one of the grilling brushes to paint the sauce onto the ribs.
THE GRILLED PEACHES
-- Sprinkle the peach slices with a bit of balsamic vinegar. Not too much, just drizzle!
THE GRILLING
-- Put the ribs on the grill without the BBQ sauce (covered in the butter/honey sauce only). Let them cook for about 10 minutes, depending on your grill.
-- Then brush the BBQ Sauce (infused with honey and butter) onto the ribs. Let them cook for another 10 minutes or so.
-- Be sure to make sure they don't overcook!
-- Put the peaches on the grill, starting on one side. They do not take long at all too cook. Depending on your grill (remember, mine particularly sucks, so I didn't time them), the cook time will differ.
-- Cook on each side until they have grill marks and start to become a somewhat soft. Flip them over, and cook for the same amount of time.
-- Watch your peaches and make sure they don't get too squishy!
(NOTE: There is also sausage in the picture...I figured why not grill some sausage while I had the grill going!)
ALL DONE! (Om nom nom...)
Happy grilling!
-Soo Coco
P.S. GEAUX TIGERS!
The Swing
(This post is LONG overdue...)
Our front porch was a bit bare, so I decided to bring my porch swing from my old house. All was going well, it was a bit annoying to get the screws into the wood, but I managed it.
SUPPLIES-- 2 large wood screws with an eye
-- 2 S hooks
-- 2 long pieces of sturdy chain (make sure it is long enough!)
-- Swing
-- Tools (screwdriver, nail, hammer, a drill if possible)
PAINTING THE SWING
I attempted to sand down the swing completely to stain it, but I couldn't find an electric sander and didn't want to invest in one, so I did a rough sand and re-painted it. I actually hung the swing before I painted it so that I could get underneath it easily.
-- Make sure you put down some kind of tarp or something (I used a $2 shower curtain liner from Wal-Mart.)
-- Have a large brush to get the big areas and a smaller one to get in the cracks and small spaces.
-- On the first coat, it is okay if it is streaky. The more you try to paint it, the more you're just going to push around the paint, actually taking paint off. The first coat is NOT supposed to be perfect. That's what the second coat is for.
-- Be sure you read the directions on the paint as far as drying time between first and second coat! All paints are different.
PUTTING UP THE SWING
1. Decide where you want to hang it. I actually put it up once and then decided I didn't like it, so I re-did it. Try to avoid this by placing the swing below wherever you choose to hang it to make sure it is where you want it.
2. Mark the spots where you are going to put the hooks in the ceiling or wherever you are hanging it from. Make sure they are even and centered.
3. Make a hole using a hammer and nail (or drill) on the mark. It took me a while to figure out the best process for this.
-- You need the hole to be big enough to be able to start the screwing.
-- I ended up using an old, stripped phillips head screwdriver and hammered that into the wood to make the hole bigger. You can make this much easier by using a larger nail or a drill (but us poor college kids have to make do with what we have!)
4. Insert the screw into the hole and start twisting it. You should feel it catch and see it going into the wood.
-- Make sure it is straight!
5. Use a screwdriver to continue screwing once it starts getting to hard with your bare hands. To do this...
-- Insert the screwdriver through the eye of the screw. The screwdriver should be perpendicular to the straight part of the screw and parallel to the ceiling.
-- Use the leverage of the screwdriver to turn the screw. It can still be difficult (trust me, my arms were sore the next day), but it is much easier than doing it just with your bare hands.
6. Hang the S hooks and chain once your screws are in all the way. One side of the S hook hangs from the eye of the screw, the other holds the chain.
7. Connect the swing to the hanging chains, and you're done!
I then made pillows for my swing because I decided it needed a bit of comfort and something to spruce it up. I made a simple envelope pillow case and used some small pillows that I had on my bed that I didn't really want anyway. (Someday when I get a chance, I will write a tutorial on making envelope pillow cases).
-Soo Coco
Our front porch was a bit bare, so I decided to bring my porch swing from my old house. All was going well, it was a bit annoying to get the screws into the wood, but I managed it.
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| The old swing (already slightly sanded and hanging on my new front porch) |
SUPPLIES-- 2 large wood screws with an eye
-- 2 S hooks
-- 2 long pieces of sturdy chain (make sure it is long enough!)
-- Swing
-- Tools (screwdriver, nail, hammer, a drill if possible)
PAINTING THE SWING
I attempted to sand down the swing completely to stain it, but I couldn't find an electric sander and didn't want to invest in one, so I did a rough sand and re-painted it. I actually hung the swing before I painted it so that I could get underneath it easily.
-- Make sure you put down some kind of tarp or something (I used a $2 shower curtain liner from Wal-Mart.)
-- Have a large brush to get the big areas and a smaller one to get in the cracks and small spaces.
-- On the first coat, it is okay if it is streaky. The more you try to paint it, the more you're just going to push around the paint, actually taking paint off. The first coat is NOT supposed to be perfect. That's what the second coat is for.
-- Be sure you read the directions on the paint as far as drying time between first and second coat! All paints are different.
PUTTING UP THE SWING
1. Decide where you want to hang it. I actually put it up once and then decided I didn't like it, so I re-did it. Try to avoid this by placing the swing below wherever you choose to hang it to make sure it is where you want it.
2. Mark the spots where you are going to put the hooks in the ceiling or wherever you are hanging it from. Make sure they are even and centered.
3. Make a hole using a hammer and nail (or drill) on the mark. It took me a while to figure out the best process for this.
-- You need the hole to be big enough to be able to start the screwing.
-- I ended up using an old, stripped phillips head screwdriver and hammered that into the wood to make the hole bigger. You can make this much easier by using a larger nail or a drill (but us poor college kids have to make do with what we have!)
4. Insert the screw into the hole and start twisting it. You should feel it catch and see it going into the wood.
-- Make sure it is straight!
5. Use a screwdriver to continue screwing once it starts getting to hard with your bare hands. To do this...
-- Insert the screwdriver through the eye of the screw. The screwdriver should be perpendicular to the straight part of the screw and parallel to the ceiling.
-- Use the leverage of the screwdriver to turn the screw. It can still be difficult (trust me, my arms were sore the next day), but it is much easier than doing it just with your bare hands.
6. Hang the S hooks and chain once your screws are in all the way. One side of the S hook hangs from the eye of the screw, the other holds the chain.
7. Connect the swing to the hanging chains, and you're done!
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| All finished! Such a nice little front porch getaway. |
I then made pillows for my swing because I decided it needed a bit of comfort and something to spruce it up. I made a simple envelope pillow case and used some small pillows that I had on my bed that I didn't really want anyway. (Someday when I get a chance, I will write a tutorial on making envelope pillow cases).
-Soo Coco
Thursday, October 6, 2011
I've Got My Baby Back
Today, after a very long period of anxious waiting, I finally got my camera. Not just any camera. My big camera. I had one all during high school when I was on yearbook - senior year I was editor, so I literally just kept it to myself. But with the end of high school came the end of my access to this electronic beauty. So, I went back to my trusty old point-and-shoot, until it broke, and so did the next one.
But today marks the re-birth of the absurd number of pictures that I post on Facebook. I finally have my baby back, and that baby came in the form of a box marked "Canon Rebel T3i."
Now obviously the quality of this picture isn't the best, but I think it would be a bit hard to take a picture of the camera with itself. So my phone's camera will have to suffice for this post. But from now on, my pictures will be works of beauty, or at least attempts. I have a book too (see that one underneath the little user manual). Yeah, I was sitting on my front porch earlier reading it and playing with the camera. I'm not a nerd I swear.
Anyway, I'm super excited. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures of the game this weekend!
And again, thanks dad. You're the best!
-Soo Coco
But today marks the re-birth of the absurd number of pictures that I post on Facebook. I finally have my baby back, and that baby came in the form of a box marked "Canon Rebel T3i."
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| Canon Rebel T3i, 55-250 Telephoto IS Lens |
Now obviously the quality of this picture isn't the best, but I think it would be a bit hard to take a picture of the camera with itself. So my phone's camera will have to suffice for this post. But from now on, my pictures will be works of beauty, or at least attempts. I have a book too (see that one underneath the little user manual). Yeah, I was sitting on my front porch earlier reading it and playing with the camera. I'm not a nerd I swear.
Anyway, I'm super excited. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures of the game this weekend!
And again, thanks dad. You're the best!
-Soo Coco
Thursday, September 29, 2011
'Tis the Season for a Party!
It's GRUB time again! (In case you don't know what grub is, it stands for Girls Round Up Boys; a sorority hosted event where the members invite any guy they want).
Tridelt's fall grub isn't themed, but I still got to make party cups! Of course I forgot to take a picture of them before-hand, and I promise you they were MUCH cuter. The gold and silver were different brands from my usual, and they wiped off when you handled the cup too much. Oh well...I know not to use those again!
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But I also got to make costumes and cups for my friend Avery's grub! Their theme was "Holi-Dazed and Confused", so they decided to go as Christmas.
I made them cups, adorned with the theme (which also happens to be my favorite time of the year, so I had a lot of fun with it!)
I also made them over-sized Christmas Tree t-shirts. It was super easy.
This is how I did it:
1. Buy oversized green shirts
2. Make a pine needle stamp (I will post soon about making your own stamp)
3. Stamp the shirt all over with another shade of green, or two.
4. Hot glue battery-powered blinking lights onto the shirt (battery pack inside the bottom of the shirt)
5. Lay out ornaments and other decorations; mark their places lightly
6. Sew on ornaments.
-- I chose to sew on the ornaments because I was afraid hot glue wouldn't hold as well. It's a college party, after all. This shirt had a long night ahead of it. It only takes a few stitches to get it on there.
7. Turn on the lights!
We all had a lot of fun with our cups and costumes. Get creative for your next party!
-Soo Coco
Tridelt's fall grub isn't themed, but I still got to make party cups! Of course I forgot to take a picture of them before-hand, and I promise you they were MUCH cuter. The gold and silver were different brands from my usual, and they wiped off when you handled the cup too much. Oh well...I know not to use those again!
I made them cups, adorned with the theme (which also happens to be my favorite time of the year, so I had a lot of fun with it!)
I also made them over-sized Christmas Tree t-shirts. It was super easy.
1. Buy oversized green shirts
2. Make a pine needle stamp (I will post soon about making your own stamp)
3. Stamp the shirt all over with another shade of green, or two.
4. Hot glue battery-powered blinking lights onto the shirt (battery pack inside the bottom of the shirt)
5. Lay out ornaments and other decorations; mark their places lightly
6. Sew on ornaments.
-- I chose to sew on the ornaments because I was afraid hot glue wouldn't hold as well. It's a college party, after all. This shirt had a long night ahead of it. It only takes a few stitches to get it on there.
7. Turn on the lights!
We all had a lot of fun with our cups and costumes. Get creative for your next party!
-Soo Coco
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Productivity at Its Best
Today was a very satisfyingly productive day. It started off sleeping in a little more than I'm used to, which was nice. Then I decided to do things around the house all day.
Yesterday I started re-painting the swing, so I finished that this morning. Then I cleaned the entire house. Well, my room, the living room and the kitchen. I started with my room, cleaned out and reorganized everything from under by bed, emptied my desk drawer, put away summer clothes (it was so tough to pack up the seersucker and white linen), and then started the hard core cleaning.
So here's my cleaning tips and what I like to do and use:
-- I started in the bathroom. I used Scrubbing Bubbles on the shower, and actually on the sink too, let it soak for a minute or two, and used a sponge to wipe down the sink and then turned on the shower. Then I used Clorox wipes on the toilet, Clorox toilet cleaner inside (let that sit, used a toilet brush to scrub, then flushed).
-- Then I did my closet. That was really just putting all the clothes away that I tried on and didn't re-hang on Thursday night when we went out.
-- Next came my bedroom. I un-made and re-made my bed (so that the sheets and everything was in the right place), and picked up all the other stray things lying around. I hate things that aren't in their place.
-- Then the really intense cleaning started...I used Windex Multipurpose on the counters, wiped them down with an old rag (I hate using and wasting paper towels). Cleaned out the sink, put all the dishes in the dishwasher, started the dishwasher, Windex-ed the fridge (there were finger smudges everywhere).
-- Next came the dusting. Gotta love Lemon Pledge made for wood! So all of our furniture is nice and shiny again, and our house smells pretty.
-- I vacuumed the entire living room, moved furniture, all that fun stuff. Oh and the kitchen too. Moved all of the chairs, got underneath the bar, under everywhere and everything. Then I moved to my room, did the bedroom (under my bed and all), in my closet and in my bathroom, using the hose attachment in spots where the vacuum didn't fit.
-- Then I used the Swiffer Sweeper with the wet cloths on it (I much prefer the Swiffer Wet Jet, but I haven't had the heart to invest in one when I already have a Sweeper and wet cloths). I swiffered my bathroom too, since it's tile.
Then I was done! It was a great feeling to have everything so nice and clean.
THEN..... I re-hung my swing. I didn't like where I put the original holes, so I decided to move it back to the next stud-thing. Then I put it up and It was all nice, but so bare. So I decided to make some pillows! I used some New Orleans Toile that my mom let me have, and made pillow cases for two 18x18 pillows that I don't really use (one was actually under my bed because I didn't have a place for it). I'm going to make a tutorial sometime in the near future on how to make easy envelope pillows. Now that the swing is all finished, it is dark outside, so I'll have to take a picture tomorrow. And my water is probably boiling now for my Mac and Cheese (I'm too tired to cook anything real tonight), so I'll update and put up pictures later!
Yay for productivity!
-Soo Coco
Yesterday I started re-painting the swing, so I finished that this morning. Then I cleaned the entire house. Well, my room, the living room and the kitchen. I started with my room, cleaned out and reorganized everything from under by bed, emptied my desk drawer, put away summer clothes (it was so tough to pack up the seersucker and white linen), and then started the hard core cleaning.
So here's my cleaning tips and what I like to do and use:
-- I started in the bathroom. I used Scrubbing Bubbles on the shower, and actually on the sink too, let it soak for a minute or two, and used a sponge to wipe down the sink and then turned on the shower. Then I used Clorox wipes on the toilet, Clorox toilet cleaner inside (let that sit, used a toilet brush to scrub, then flushed).
-- Then I did my closet. That was really just putting all the clothes away that I tried on and didn't re-hang on Thursday night when we went out.
-- Next came my bedroom. I un-made and re-made my bed (so that the sheets and everything was in the right place), and picked up all the other stray things lying around. I hate things that aren't in their place.
-- Then the really intense cleaning started...I used Windex Multipurpose on the counters, wiped them down with an old rag (I hate using and wasting paper towels). Cleaned out the sink, put all the dishes in the dishwasher, started the dishwasher, Windex-ed the fridge (there were finger smudges everywhere).
-- Next came the dusting. Gotta love Lemon Pledge made for wood! So all of our furniture is nice and shiny again, and our house smells pretty.
-- I vacuumed the entire living room, moved furniture, all that fun stuff. Oh and the kitchen too. Moved all of the chairs, got underneath the bar, under everywhere and everything. Then I moved to my room, did the bedroom (under my bed and all), in my closet and in my bathroom, using the hose attachment in spots where the vacuum didn't fit.
-- Then I used the Swiffer Sweeper with the wet cloths on it (I much prefer the Swiffer Wet Jet, but I haven't had the heart to invest in one when I already have a Sweeper and wet cloths). I swiffered my bathroom too, since it's tile.
Then I was done! It was a great feeling to have everything so nice and clean.
THEN..... I re-hung my swing. I didn't like where I put the original holes, so I decided to move it back to the next stud-thing. Then I put it up and It was all nice, but so bare. So I decided to make some pillows! I used some New Orleans Toile that my mom let me have, and made pillow cases for two 18x18 pillows that I don't really use (one was actually under my bed because I didn't have a place for it). I'm going to make a tutorial sometime in the near future on how to make easy envelope pillows. Now that the swing is all finished, it is dark outside, so I'll have to take a picture tomorrow. And my water is probably boiling now for my Mac and Cheese (I'm too tired to cook anything real tonight), so I'll update and put up pictures later!
Yay for productivity!
-Soo Coco
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Procraftinating for My Little
Sorority rush...well, "recruitment"...was pretty brutal. But, it was all very worth it! We got an absolutely adorable pledge class. And best of all, I got the best little anyone could hope for.
For Big/Little Sis week, the big sisters leave presents in the living room for 3 days (Mon, Tues and Weds), and the Little picks them up not knowing who her Big is. Then on the fourth day, we split up into groups of 5, put our littles' names on a post it, attach it to a chair and the end of a spool of yarn in the kitchen and string the yarn all over the house for them to follow. When they get to the end, we're there waiting! It's fun, and they get to see different parts of the house that they might not have seen before.
The anonymous presents are usually artsy-craftsy delta stuff. Well, I got super artsy craftsy. My roommates got annoyed with all the art stuff strewn all over the living room floor. But it was so much fun! So here's what I did...
Day 1:
-- Chalk Board
-- Monogrammed Makeup Bag with Caitlyn and ΔΔΔ
-- "Shacker Pack" inside the makeup bag
-- (...now if she's anything like me, she won't really need a "shacker pack," but one of my friends got one last year and I thought it was a really cute idea)
Day 2:
-- Basket with....
-- 2 Painted Glass Jars filled with Candy (yum yum)
-- A ΔΔΔ Picture Frame
-- Two Paint-Washed Picture Canvases with Quotes that I Made...
-- One with a picture of her pledge class on Bid Day and her favorite Gandhi quote
-- One with a picture of the Tridelt house and the purpose painted on it
-- A Tridelt Key Chain Wallet
-- 3 Hanging Deltas that I made for her wall
-- 2 Tridelt Tshirts
Day 3:
-- A Painted Ice Chest filled with....
-- A ΔΔΔ Nalgene bottle
-- Ping Pong balls (in the Nalgene)
-- A Painted Wine Glass
-- 3 Painted PΔRTY PΔRTY PΔRTY Shot Glasses
-- Blue and Yellow Solo Cups
-- ΔΔΔ License Plate Cover
-- Blind Tie 2011 Jersey
Day 4...Revelation:
-- I ordered her real present late, so in the mean time I gave her a silver picture frame that I put blue and yellow ribbon on with a picture of the two of us inside.
-- But her real present is a ΔΔΔ sweatshirt from Balfour house. I got one last year and it was absolutely my favorite present.
So I had so much fun doing all of it! People would joke that I was making them look bad or that they wanted to be my little, which made me feel good. She says she likes all of it, so yayayyy! I'm so glad she's my little, I love her!
But I did spend a lot of time "procraftinating"...TSM.
-Soo Coco
For Big/Little Sis week, the big sisters leave presents in the living room for 3 days (Mon, Tues and Weds), and the Little picks them up not knowing who her Big is. Then on the fourth day, we split up into groups of 5, put our littles' names on a post it, attach it to a chair and the end of a spool of yarn in the kitchen and string the yarn all over the house for them to follow. When they get to the end, we're there waiting! It's fun, and they get to see different parts of the house that they might not have seen before.
The anonymous presents are usually artsy-craftsy delta stuff. Well, I got super artsy craftsy. My roommates got annoyed with all the art stuff strewn all over the living room floor. But it was so much fun! So here's what I did...
Day 1: -- Chalk Board
-- Monogrammed Makeup Bag with Caitlyn and ΔΔΔ
-- "Shacker Pack" inside the makeup bag
-- (...now if she's anything like me, she won't really need a "shacker pack," but one of my friends got one last year and I thought it was a really cute idea)
Day 2:
-- Basket with....
-- 2 Painted Glass Jars filled with Candy (yum yum)
-- A ΔΔΔ Picture Frame
-- Two Paint-Washed Picture Canvases with Quotes that I Made...
-- One with a picture of her pledge class on Bid Day and her favorite Gandhi quote
-- One with a picture of the Tridelt house and the purpose painted on it
-- A Tridelt Key Chain Wallet
-- 3 Hanging Deltas that I made for her wall
-- 2 Tridelt Tshirts
Day 3: -- A Painted Ice Chest filled with....
-- A ΔΔΔ Nalgene bottle
-- Ping Pong balls (in the Nalgene)
-- A Painted Wine Glass
-- 3 Painted PΔRTY PΔRTY PΔRTY Shot Glasses
-- Blue and Yellow Solo Cups
-- ΔΔΔ License Plate Cover
-- Blind Tie 2011 Jersey
Day 4...Revelation:
-- I ordered her real present late, so in the mean time I gave her a silver picture frame that I put blue and yellow ribbon on with a picture of the two of us inside.
-- But her real present is a ΔΔΔ sweatshirt from Balfour house. I got one last year and it was absolutely my favorite present. So I had so much fun doing all of it! People would joke that I was making them look bad or that they wanted to be my little, which made me feel good. She says she likes all of it, so yayayyy! I'm so glad she's my little, I love her!
But I did spend a lot of time "procraftinating"...TSM.
-Soo Coco
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Cupcakes!
I. Love. Cupcakes. End of story.
One evening during rush workshop I was bored at home so I decided to make cupcakes. I made devils' food with my home-made butter cream icing that I got from the almighty Martha Stewart Baking Handbook. I have altered it a bit, I've done it a couple times, including on my dad's birthday cake. But it's very fluffy and yummy!
Here's what I do....
Cupcakes:
-- I just simply use the boxed cake mix. Its super easy and you don't have to by excess of ingredients.
-- I do make sure to make it super fluffy. I don't beat it with a whisk, weird I know. I use a fork and beat it with a wide/high stroke for a while, making sure it gets enough air into it.
-- I really don't know how long I do it, I just beat until it looks very fluffy
-- I fill the cupcake pan with cupcake cups and then fill them between 3/4 and the rim of the cup. Sometimes I don't make 24 cupcakes, but if they're just for the house, it doesn't really matter anyway.
-- Cook as instructed.
-- I take them out and cool them on a wire cooling rack so that the bottoms don't get soggy.
Icing:
- Before I even begin making the cupcakes, I take out all of my ingredients for the icing. It sucks to realize you don't have enough eggs or butter and have to go to the grocery later. The butter also needs to soften, so it's good to put it on the stove/by the oven while the oven is preheating.
This is my modified recipe:
-- 4 large egg whites
-- 1 1/4 cups sugar
-- 2 to 2 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature and cut into chunks
-- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
-- Fill a saucepan with water and bring to a simmer. Set a heatproof mixing bowl on top of the saucepan and combine the egg whites and sugar in the bowl. Whisk them constantly until everything has dissolved and the mixture is warm. It won't get clear, but it you will see a consistent murky white color without random dots of undissolved sugar.
-- If you have a standing mixer, attach the bowl to the mixer. If you don't, you can use a hand mixer. Use the whisk attachment (if you have one). Beat the egg white and sugar mixture on high until it is white, fluffy and makes hard peaks. Note that you don't want it to be stiff, but you want the peaks to somewhat stand for a second. (The recipe says this takes about 6 minutes. It depends on what mixer/attachment you have).
-- Switch to the paddle attachment (if you have one; if you're using a handheld, you can keep on the same pieces) and add the butter a couple of tablespoons at a time with the mixer on medium-low. Be sure you beat all of the butter in after each addition.
-- Sometimes it will appear to separate - that's okay. Just set your mixer on high and beat until it is smooth again.
-- Once all of the butter is in, beat in the vanilla. If you're adding color, add it now.
-- Reduce to the lowest speed to get rid of any air bubbles. Then stir with a rubber spatula until the frosting is smooth.
Once your cupcakes are cool and your frosting is made, you're ready to ice! I usually put the icing in a plastic bag with one of the corners cut off. I "pipe" the icing on in a spiral/circular motion, starting on the outside, working inward and finishing off with a little peak in the middle.
-Soo Coco
It's been a while...
I know I haven't posted in literally forever. During the summer I ended up working at Camp Bow Wow 6 days a week, and between that and working out and playing mom for the littles, I was too exhausted to blog.
But, I'm back! I'm all settled into my apartment...working on decorating. I just brought up a swing from my old house for our front porch. That has been today's project.
So since I haven't blogged in so long...there are a couple things I want to blog about! Here's my small list:
- My Little (and all the fun crafty stuff I made for her)
- My room! how I decorated my room and the other plans I have for it
- Other little crafts (like our key holders)
- The Swing
- Cooking!
...and of course just life.
I'm gonna start working on those now! Hopefully they'll be up soon, and I'll start making some tutorials on some of the things I've done. I'm also in the midst of making a dress....I started it in June, but it frustrated me, so I stopped work. Maybe I'll pick it up again soon.
I'm still working on the theme for my blog too. I had this really cool zipper idea for the menu bar, but it's not working out. I'm actually rather upset about it, so I'm going to try to force it to work. If it doesn't, I'll have to figure something else out. But in the meantime, it'll just stay white and simple.
Off to write those posts!
-Soo Coco
But, I'm back! I'm all settled into my apartment...working on decorating. I just brought up a swing from my old house for our front porch. That has been today's project.
So since I haven't blogged in so long...there are a couple things I want to blog about! Here's my small list:
- My Little (and all the fun crafty stuff I made for her)
- My room! how I decorated my room and the other plans I have for it
- Other little crafts (like our key holders)
- The Swing
- Cooking!
...and of course just life.
I'm gonna start working on those now! Hopefully they'll be up soon, and I'll start making some tutorials on some of the things I've done. I'm also in the midst of making a dress....I started it in June, but it frustrated me, so I stopped work. Maybe I'll pick it up again soon.
I'm still working on the theme for my blog too. I had this really cool zipper idea for the menu bar, but it's not working out. I'm actually rather upset about it, so I'm going to try to force it to work. If it doesn't, I'll have to figure something else out. But in the meantime, it'll just stay white and simple.
Off to write those posts!
-Soo Coco
Monday, June 13, 2011
I got a blog!
I finally made a blog! Yay! Thanks to my fantastic and ultra-adorable aunt who thought of the name. Too bad “so coco” was taken. But the extra O adds more emphasis, so all is well.
Thanks to stumbleupon (if you don’t have one, you should get one….it’s the procrastinator’s best friend), I have found a bunch of DIY, baking, sewing….you name it….blogs. I’ve been working on some stuff myself, getting ideas from here and there, thinking of my own things. So I figured I would make a blog about these things from a college student’s point of view! I know, it’s super 50′s-house-wife-esque…cooking, sewing, and the sort, but what’s the harm in that? I’m a mom and everyone that knows me knows it. So it’s all good. Hope this turns out well!
-Soo Coco
Thanks to stumbleupon (if you don’t have one, you should get one….it’s the procrastinator’s best friend), I have found a bunch of DIY, baking, sewing….you name it….blogs. I’ve been working on some stuff myself, getting ideas from here and there, thinking of my own things. So I figured I would make a blog about these things from a college student’s point of view! I know, it’s super 50′s-house-wife-esque…cooking, sewing, and the sort, but what’s the harm in that? I’m a mom and everyone that knows me knows it. So it’s all good. Hope this turns out well!
-Soo Coco
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