A song by Emmy Rossum. I really love the lyrics. We all want to be accepted as we are and she has an awesome voice to go with it.
Random bits of stuff
A Recipe
Valentine’s vanilla cookies
* 90g (3 oz) butter
* 1/2 c confectioners sugar (icing/powdered sugar)
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 1 1/2 c plain flour (all- purpose)
* 1 egg
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF) and line or grease 2 baking trays.
Combine the butter, sugar and vanilla, beating until pale and creamy. Then add the egg and beat again. Add the flour and your mix should form a smooth dough.
Take it from the bowl and refrigerate for just 10 – 20 minutes, then roll out the dough (1/2cm or 1/4in) and cut cookies with any shape cutter you like. Obviously hearts are obvious… ha.
Once you’ve cut out all the dough, pop them onto the baking sheet and into the oven for 10 minutes. We made pretty small ones, bite size, but if you make them bigger just cook for another couple minutes- not long. They should hardly have turned colour at all.
This made about 35 small, thin cookies for us, so double the batch if you’re making BIG hearts this year! These cookies are crisp and sweet, very smooth and durable for decorating so go wild! (We ate most of ours before we could decorate them.)
Here’s a good simple icing recipe for easy piping/writing.
Decorator frosting
* 80 g (2.8 oz) butter
* 2 c confectioners sugar (powdered/icing sugar)
* 1 Tbsp water
* 1/2 tsp flavoring (vanilla extract, lemon, peppermint, coconut, etc)
* a drop or two of food colouring if you like
Beat the butter and half the sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy, then add the water, flavoring and colour and beat again while slowly adding the rest of the sugar until the mixture is creamy.
Pipe onto cookies using a piping bag or cut a tiny tip off a zip-loc bag and squeeze the icing through there onto the cookies.
A few random websites you might enjoy if you are crazy like me
www.jacksonpollock.org
www.tastespotting.com/
www.safenow.org/
www.wambie.com/foto_br-272.html
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2uKXuA/theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
www.offbeatearth.com/quiet-at-the-library/
And a random video or two
And some pictures to finish us off for the day...
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