This might seem like an odd post, weird food to randomly make, and it isn’t a baked good. All of that said, I made mashed potatoes. My mother gave me the recipe and they were delicious – yes, I actually ate something I made. Note that I measured the portion perfectly and I write down everything I eat and am on a strict diet, mashed potatoes are okay to eat. Dessert is still never going to be in my diet though. Back to mashed potatoes. My mother’s recipe goes as follows:
Peel the potatoes
Chop up those potatoes, I pretended to know how many to use.
Put them in a pot, covering them completely with water, and let them boil until they seem soft enough.
Take them off the stove, we always place the pot on a pot holder on our kitchen table.
the recipe calls for 4 tablespoons of butter, which I have! Except that I only had one tablespoons worth defrosted. I keep butter in my freezer like everyone else because the price of butter is just as ridiculous as the price of gas, and as an amateur baker I have found that you use a lot of butter in the kitchen. With this new found information, I took the butter out of my freezer and let it sit out on my counter for about a half hour. After that everything went perfectly! You mix 8 ounces of cream cheese with 4 tablespoons of butter until it’s smooth, I assume that smooth meant until they were completely combined and looked like whipped cream cheese. If I’m wrong, oh well, the cookies are still mixed. Once those two ingredients are a smooth consistency it’s time to add 1 large egg and 1 tablespoon of red food coloring. I wasn’t expecting the mix to turn red so quickly, it made me really happy. I mixed these together for about, I have no idea – everything was mixed though.
I, like many others, adore eggnog. It is very true that people either love or hate eggnog. I happen to be someone who loves eggnog – I say that even though I haven’t had eggnog in about five years. I used to drink it until I was sick, that might sound horrible but it’s a wonderful memory that I take pride in. Since I happen to fall into the eggnog lovers’ annonymous category it seems fitting to make a really cool 
is), baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. After whisking this mixture for the stated 20 seconds, I put it aside. Far, far away. It wasn’t even on the table when I put the wet mixture together. Again, paranoid. Next is to blend 1/2 a cup of unsalted butter, softened, 1/2 a cup of all-vegetable shortening, 1 cup of granulated sugar, and 1/2 a cup of packed light brown sugar. After everything is in a mixing bowl it’s time to actually mix it up, “until creamy.” I wasn’t sure what it meant when it said creamy, but I quickly found out. The mix almost feels like peanut butter, which was really cool to me. You then add eggs, vanilla extract, and rum extract (I used imitation rum extract because that was all I could find at Stop & Shop). The mixture went from smelling pretty delicious to basically making me want to throw it down my throat.
have a list of every dessert I would like to attempt to bake this week, and spent a numerous amount of minutes shopping to ensure I had every needed ingredient, I chose to make a pumpkin pie. I believe this decision was based solely on the frustration that was still deep in my soul from disappointing myself yesterday with my dessert outcomes. In the end I am happy to report that my second attempt at this dessert was a success. There is currently a beautiful pie sitting on my oven, tempting my parents. I am sincerely joyed that I was able to make one of the easiest desserts known to man, correctly.
of the mix all around my kitchen table. Then, pulling out the correct measuring cup, 2/3 of a cup of evaporated milk was poured in. Now was the exciting moment, stirring it all up – during which I dropped the spatula twice. Once, fully into the bowl of pumpkin and the other, flipping it out of the bowl. My sincerest apologies to the horror that has been cast upon that table through my baking explorations. Unlike yesterday’s disaster, this mix looked less like tomato soup and much closer to the multiple times I have witnessed my mother make this pie up.
This morning seemed like a good time to make a nice breakfast for my friend – also known as Patryk, my admin for this site. It is kind of the only way I can thank someone, seeing as how he does a bunch for me I figured I would repay him with food. No one ever seems sad when you give them food. It also helped that I have 10 pounds of potatoes chilling in my kitchen. I remember buying them for another recipe that I have yet to make. Might as well use some of them. I based this breakfast losely from 
Olive oil – I used 1 tablespoon.
Today was 
As Baked by Ginger 