Thursday, July 21, 2011
Cake Batter Blondies
After making the cake batter ice cream, I had a little over half a box left of yellow cake mix. Not wanting to just toss it, I made half the recipe for cake batter blondies found on pinterest. Yum.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
San Francisco through Diana
Mike and I bought a Diana Lomography camera which the website describes like this: With each click of the shutter, a moment is captured in a unique and fairly unpredictable way...
I really like cameras like this. It uses film, is plastic and has a manual shutter lever. There's nothing fancy. No focus. No way to fix the photos. They just come out the way they are shot. Sometimes light leaks in and your pictures have streaks or shadows you didn't see when you shot them. That's all in the fun of getting the film back (does anyone remember what that was like... waiting to get film back from the store? its a lot more fun than just loading the memory card onto the computer. or so i think)
Anywho. Here are a few of my favorites. Some I took and some Mike took. Sometimes I forgot to wind the film and exposed two pictures on the same negative. All in good fun.
I really like cameras like this. It uses film, is plastic and has a manual shutter lever. There's nothing fancy. No focus. No way to fix the photos. They just come out the way they are shot. Sometimes light leaks in and your pictures have streaks or shadows you didn't see when you shot them. That's all in the fun of getting the film back (does anyone remember what that was like... waiting to get film back from the store? its a lot more fun than just loading the memory card onto the computer. or so i think)
Anywho. Here are a few of my favorites. Some I took and some Mike took. Sometimes I forgot to wind the film and exposed two pictures on the same negative. All in good fun.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Cake Batter Ice Cream
As if Mexican Thanksgiving needed anything else, I also whipped up a batch of cake batter ice cream. There's nothing smarter than making a new recipe with a new contraption right before friends come over for dinner right?
Well, that's generally what I end up doing. Sometimes it doesn't work (case in point the Friday night before when I made artichoke and white bean crostini for my cousin and girlfriend which promptly ended up in the garbage due to its weird smell). Sometimes it does work, like with cake batter ice cream.
I think this was a great recipe to try my new ice cream maker attachment since its a total cheat... it uses milk, cool whip, and yellow cake mix. It came together like a charm and froze right up. I had mine with sprinkles and the boys had theirs with chocolate chips and sprinkles... Erica just ate Nick's after protesting she was too full. Lesson learned - You just can't say no to ice cream that smells like cake batter.
Well, that's generally what I end up doing. Sometimes it doesn't work (case in point the Friday night before when I made artichoke and white bean crostini for my cousin and girlfriend which promptly ended up in the garbage due to its weird smell). Sometimes it does work, like with cake batter ice cream.
I think this was a great recipe to try my new ice cream maker attachment since its a total cheat... it uses milk, cool whip, and yellow cake mix. It came together like a charm and froze right up. I had mine with sprinkles and the boys had theirs with chocolate chips and sprinkles... Erica just ate Nick's after protesting she was too full. Lesson learned - You just can't say no to ice cream that smells like cake batter.
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