Catch Up

Dear Portland.
Today I woke up in horrible mood and I have no idea why. I was cranky and annoyed by everything. I decided to make brownies with cream cheese frosting today instead of later in the week, (I was planning on bringing them to my knitting classes next week).

Well, I really should not cook when I'm in a bad mood because nothing really worked out. The cream cheese frosting just didn't turn out because I was rushing it and didn't cream the butter and cream cheese together well enough before I started adding the powdered sugar and I got all sorts of unwelcome clumps. I decided to make a half batch of the brownies to try them out, because this was a new recipe and I wanted to have a little test before I share them with picky 10 year olds. Well you can't really make a half batch of these. Or, more accurately, I can't. I put them in the oven and went outside for a smoke (what I do with everything that will be in the oven for more then 10 minutes) and it wasn't ready when I cam back. Suddenly the next time I checked they were overcooked and I found myself trying all sorts of tools to try and get them unstuck from my BUTTERED pan.

Mood not improved. I called my sister via Skype and did some online window shopping and watched a movie.

Mood very much improved.


I was also looking back at some older posts, and I realized I never posted pictures of my macaroni and cheese. I didn't take any pictures of the first one, but the much better second attempt I did. Can't wait until I get to perfect it further.