Disney World!

So I am now at Disney World!

Let me give you a couple basics really fast. I found out I am working at Victoria and Albert's at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa. Apparently it's the most expensive place you can eat on Disney property. Over $100 a person. Yeah. I can only hope I get to eat the food there, nothing like getting a gourmet meal every night for free :D

Now onto the most important place.  The kitchen in my apartment. I have my own kitchen. Well I share it with 5 other girls, but that's better than sharing it with 200.

I went shopping at Wal-Mart. I feel like I was in a gold mine. I got so many groceries for sooooo cheap compared to Hawaii. I got bread for 88 cents a loaf. Milk for $2.50 a gallon. A pound of butter for just over $1. And vanilla extract for only $1.50. Oh there are so many other things to list that I got. I'm in heaven. There are no words to describe how much I miss all the cheap food.

Then again it's absolutely nothing compared to how much I miss my guy.

Okay back on topic. So what am  I eating these first couple days?

Just grilled cheese and cereal. The cheapest things I can think of right now because I have basically no money until I get paid.

Though one of the best deals for college students I would have to say are the hamburger helper/ banquet, they are usually by the pasta area. $3 for a box to feed 5 people. Or one really hungry person like how I usually am. Or make it and save some for later.  Which is what I am currently baking

The oven timer is calling my name!

Yours until the cookie crumbles.

Aloha

Aloha Hawaii, it's about time for me to pack up and get off this island in the middle of no where.

I don't want to leave though, like people say, it's paradise.

I can't wait to actually cook for myself all the time though. Amazingness right there.

But its not as exciting when you are leaving your boy behind.

I'll miss him. Last night was never a moment I will never forget. Banana Bread and Cold Play. What a combination.

Magical things seriously do come out of cooking. Not just in food.

I can't wait to be at Disney to cook more. And to finally be able to update my blog a lot more often than I have been :)

Yours till the cookie crumbles.

Sorry

So sorry for not having put up a new post in a while. It is finals week though, I currently have just 3 more hours left of this nonsense and I'll be free.

Well. And there's this guy. Who is pretty dang amazing. So he kind of has been taking up some of my time too :)

When I get to Disney, then there will be more posts, wayyy more :) Just another week before I'm home.

Though I don't want to leave him. He's waiting for me though :)

Yours till the cookie crumbles.

I love my friends

So life in general is pretty dang amazing. I'm switching my major from Hospitality and Tourism Management to Elementary and Special Education. I couldn't be happier about this :) I love kids and I love the idea of teaching!

Oh and then I get a break from school for a whole 4 months! I will be doing an internship at Disney World. Which of course means I will be back on the mainland. And I will have my own apartment, with a full kitchen, all to myself! Well most of it that is, I'll be sharing with with a few others. Way better than an entire dorm full. And you know what else that means? More cooking for me! I will have to make all my food myself, and, it's a million times cheaper.

Here's a list at some of the things I'm tired of prices being high.

A small box of life cereal : $7.75
A block of cream cheese: $3.79
A dozen eggs : $4.00
A gallon of milk: $7.00-$9.00
A gallon of Chocolate Milk: $10.00-$12.00

Yep. It's pretty ridiculous. But then again, I live in Hawaii for the time being, and the thought of that is priceless (before thinking about food that is).

One other thing before I leave to go talk to my advisor about changing my major. I have this amazing friend and next door neighbor named Lucy. She has a fantastic blog found here. The reason why I tell you this? Not only like I said, she's amazing, but I feel special. She blogged about me and it makes me feel special. And hereis a link to the specific blog about me that makes me smile every time I read it.

I'll post another recipe sometime this week hopefully :)

Yours till the cookie crumbles.

Happy Days

So I have been in a really weird mood lately. I have been crazy happy for some reason the past few days.

I'm trying to debate this source of happiness but I'm not sure.

Now most likely you are not fantastically happy like me at the moment, and in that case, chocolate will solve the answer to everything.

I found this recipe on another blog for these cookies. And I have to say. They are the most fantastic chocolate cookies in the entire world. I can make 3 batches of these at once and have them be gone within the day.

1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1 1/4 cup sugar plus add 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Mix together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl, set aside
Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium low heat and cool slightly
Add 1 1/4 cups sugar, stir until smooth
Whisk in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla
Stir the soft butter mixture into the flour/cocoa mixture until combined
Wrap the mixture in saran wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours
Shape dough into even sized balls (usually about 1 1/2 inches wide)
Roll balls in sugar. Bake 12 minutes at 350 degrees

And there ya go, you really need to make them. You won't know what happened to you after tasting one of these.

Yours till the cookie crumbles

Time Flies

It has been a long time. A long long time. Two weeks to be exact. 
Things here have been hectic. Essays on procrastination to write, midterms to take, and packing up my room.


And my computer decided to hate me. It died. So I bought a new one. And now I finally have it. Yay!


Something I made while this whole fiasco of computers being broken that went on. 


I made something I absolutely love and my family makes it all the time. We are huge fans of Mexican food as my mom is from Texas and my dad is from New Mexico. So it makes sense. 


This is all purely guesstimation on about what I used in this. 


1 onion, chopped up
2 pounds of ground pork
2 cans fire roasted green chili's (Ortega sells these if you can't get the really good ones and they aren't spicy at all), diced
Butter
2 Tablespoons flour
Red Chili Powder
Cumin
Water
2 cans diced tomatoes
Tortillas (for dipping when you are done)


So get a big pot, melt the butter and put the onions in and cook them until they are soft.
Add in the ground pork and brown it


I know this next part is going to sound kind of gross, but it's just to help it thicken up some. 


Move the pork and onions somewhat out of the way in the pan so you have access to the fat that has  come off the pork.
Whisk the flour with the fat until it's mixed together well
Add in the cans of tomatoes and add water...um... I did equal parts of water to tomatoes, so just take your empty tomato cans and fill them up with water and dump it in. 
Mix it all together
Bring it up to a boil and then let it simmer for about 20 minutes on medium low heat


Next add the chili's (you want to add these last always)


Finally, add some red chili powder and cumin, I would say about one-two teaspoons maybe, it's completely up to you, so just keep adding and tasting until you like it!


And that's it!


Now eat it with some tortillas :)


Or you can make a variation of huevos rancheros. 


Get a tortilla, spread refried beans on it(you don't have too) and then make an over easy egg, and put that on top of the tortilla, and cover in green chili stew. Feel free to add cheese and sour cream on top as well :D


We always use the left overs of green chili stew to make them :)


And that will all I shall be posting for the day, more will be up later :)


Yours till the cookie crumbles :)


(And I just used a bunch of smiley faces in those last few thingamabobs...)

Cooking Crazyiness.

This weekend I went a little crazy when it came to cooking.

First I made banana bread, one loaf of regular, one loaf with cranberries.

Next comes the doughnuts I made for our survivor competition for work (which my partner and I won the challenge this week :) )

Then I made these fantastic crescent rolls, which were made into squares and they were filled with a mixture of chicken, cream cheese, and green onions, and then baked.

Next we made chili rellenos, which are whole chili's that have been stuffed with cheese and then battered and fried.

Now we are onto Sunday. Today we made....stuffed French toast (which is King's Hawaiian Bread that has been stuffed with cream cheese and strawberries) and then homemade mashed potatoes, which were absolutely delicious.

I will post the recipes for these later, but for now it's time for me to finish my procrastination paper. Wait I lied, start it. And it's due tomorrow. Fantastic.

Yours till the cookie crumbles.