1 teaspoon = 1 quarter

this post could have also been appropriately titled:

• how to cook without measuring spoons
• how to grab a hot pan out of the oven sans hot pad
• why google is my best friend
• you don't always need brown sugar even if they insist that you do

but not to worry, everything turned out according to plan, my quarter sized guesstimating skills received a confidence boost and i did not, in fact, burn myself while attempting to get the pan out of the oven.

thanks mom for the photo backdrops =)

Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

Recipe from Allrecipes.com

oreo hamburger smush

excellently busy weekend. yesterday morning was spent editing pictures for my photo project. it took 4 hours in the lab to finally figure out the printing and color setting levels and all those other shenanigans. but it's done (aside from cutting it down). went to dinner at tc riley's with mike... after taking the bus for the second time in my life, guess i need to get out more :) from dinner we walked over to LBJ and saw the NTID performance of Sleeping Beauty. it was SO good! I had no idea what to expect after the last performance we saw. this one was completely dance and signs which was pretty neat. they had super cool costumes.. which included light up fairy wands. the end was probably the best, after an entire performance using traditional tschaikowsky music they broke out into the black eyed peas hip hop song complete with a disco ball and everything. pretty awesome. walked back here and we made crushed oreo cream cheese balls, as seen above. so good. although the initial crushing of the oreos was in question. with no rolling pin we had to substitute the bottom of a plastic cup! seemed to work fairly well although a tad bit messy when i added the cream cheese. but it was tasty and so worth the mess. watched scary movie 4, the olympics and then a good 3 hours of food network! apparently after midnight i enjoy talking back to the tv :) especially because the food network only seemed to be covering french fry and disgustingly large hamburgers. woke up before 7 this morning (because i had inadvertedly turned off the heat last night so it was 2 degrees) and watched more food network and gilmore girls before going to church around 8:30.

here's a picture of the tofu from last week :)

happy valentines day everyone!! <3