cucpakes!

It was pointed out to me that as a cupcake girl, I have a surprisingly large lack of cupcake posts.  So from here on out I will blog about my cupcake adventures!!! Beginning with this little number:

Margarita Mary.  yes.  with tequila. (tequila lime cake w/ tequila lime buttercream)

I make this cupcake with or without tequila...but I must admit, the tequila lime buttercream is quite absurdly the best buttercream I've ever made or tasted.  I love lime frosting--it's sweet and tangy: the perfect combination.  But add that with tequila? It graduates to a league all it's own.  The sweet, tangy, lime buttercream becomes enriched with this small wave of pleasure.  The tequila isn't so strong that it will make you grimace but is just strong enough to remind you why you like frozen margaritas in the first place.  I'm itching to get a free Saturday to try every single tequila buttercream combo possible.

Veggie Cheat Sheet

This is an extremely awesome chart and much more useful than my "Do you think it's done? Let's taste it.  Let's poke it.  Let's smell it." route.

Also...if you were caught in a 12 foot snow storm I devised a recipe based on your supplies:
Take the maraschino cherries and crush them.  Then spread peanut butter on the Ritz crackers and spread the crushed cherries on tops and voila!  You have a mini sandwich to live off of until the snow melts.  Word of advice: only one ritz sandwich a day---12 feet of snow will take an awfully long time to melt.

The World of Leftovers.

My brother and I have discovered that my parents have a secret world of leftovers.  Possibly a passion for collecting the most one portion size leftovers ever in the history of the modern American family world.

 

The one lone egg

The lone...wait.  I have no idea what this is. Or was

Two bites of cereal

The lone hot dog

The lone corn dog

And last but not least...the left over chicken.  Tell me: how much more meat could really be gotten from this???

Happy Friday!

I really like posting music videos on Fridays.

If I Die Young by The Band Perry

Fun Things My Friends Say

(While watching No Strings Attached)
Natalie Portman:  A date?  Like where I put on makeup and act perfect all night?
Sage: If that's her without make up then just kill me now.

The Nook or the Kindle?

I've spent a good deal of time in the past couple of weeks researching this very important question: Which one should I buy?  The Nook or the Kindle??  What I learned was this: there is no clear answer to this question.  Both come with great features and lack in other features....in reality if they combined the e-readers together it would be an almost perfect product.

Almost.  But not quite perfect. 

So I reached my decision.  Which e-reader will I buy?  Neither. Because in the end with all the cool stuff that a Nook or Kindle can do--it still isn't as cool as a book is. 

Can I build my own little book nook in my library with a Nook? No.  Can I flip the pages of a new book against my thumb on a Kindle? No.  Does a Nook come with that new book smell?  No. Does a Kindle display the type of elegance a stack of books does? No.

I don't care that carrying around a book in purse is a hassle.   I like it that way.  So to those people out there that say the e-reader is the new library and is an improvement to the world of literature:  I will not conform.