What a weekend!!!!

Whew...I was able to try a couple of things that had been on my mind for a while this weekend! Whooohoooo! I have so many things on my mind that I want to try create or just try, that I have yet to bake and cook everything that I've planned to experiment with in one weekend.

On Saturday I set out to make homemade donuts, 4 sweet potato pies, spinach and tomato tortellini, double chocolate cookies and rum cake. I didn't get to make the rum cake at all and I ended up trying my version of a double chocolate chip cookie with Godiva white chocolate liqueur and Creme de Cocoa liqueur on today.

My donuts were the biggest result of kitchen BLOOPERS that I have had in a while!!!! OMG!!!! THEY LOOKED LIKE SUPERSIZE BROWN LIFESAVERS!!!! AHAHAHAHHHHHH! I was all excited when I made the dough and cut them out, so I dropped them in the hot oil and..they started cooking really, really fast!!! My girlfriend that I bake with was at my house and I was running around like crazy because as soon as I dropped them in the oil they were GONNERS!! I'm going to try it again because I have been wanting to make homemade donuts for a while and I DON'T WANT CAKE DONUTS! So after, I gathered myself (fixing my clothes and getting my composure) and decided that I was going to end my night in the kitchen, but before I did, I had to successes!!!

The first were my sweet potato pies with pecan strussel and the second was my spinach and tomato tortellini! Everyone that knows me knows that I am not a pie maker...PERIOD! One of my friends insisted that I make her sweet potato pies and I gave in...(hey! who am I to deny someone else's fat soul some Hasty Pastry gratification!???). You won't believe that she was there when I made them...maybe she'll comment on this post. My mom couldn't believe that I was making pies...I've just always steered clear of them.

Now, the tortellini recipe is not mine; it was one that I found on the AllRecipe website. I was looking for something new (without meat) and I found it! OMG! This dish turned out great!!! If you search for spinach and tomato tortellini on that website, you should find it and give it a try.

Oh! And I almost forgot, I made double chocolate cookies that turned out more like brownie cookies with white chocolate chips. I added the beverages above and they added a great aroma to the cookie and a richer flavor. I am going to continue on my quest to make that irresistible double chocolate cookie ...(only because I am a choco'holic), but this one was GOOOOD and had a great texture. It had this perfectly crunchy outside and soft inside that made me think of that "corner brownie"...and a glass of ice cold milk (yyyyuuummmyyy...fat soul belts out an A-flat).

I also made wings tonight with some type of mystery sauce that included honey, lemon juice, lime juice, worchestire sauce, crushed red peppers, garlic and pepper. I fried the wings lightly first (lightly seasoned them with seasoning salt and white pepper) and then baked them until golden. I guess I'll tell you that I am in the bed about to sleep like a baby and dream about those golden wings...that's probably what I should call them!

Anyway, I've had a great weekend in the kitchen and I hope that you did also! What did you bake or cook this weekend? I had a few visitors this weekend while I was baking and cooking some of these dishes, so hopefully you will hear some of their observations if they decide to respond to this post, but until then...continue to do things YOUR WAY...IN YOUR KITCHEN!

Love ya!

Oh! And I forgot that I made a couple of pound cakes...one of which is being shipped to Florida to some of my extended family members...so cool and thanks for the support!

Later...