Cinnamon Explosion pt. 2

SNOOWWW DAAAYYY

Maryland has had tons of snow days this winter. WBC has only had 1. (Dont get me started)

However on that glorious Thursday morning I woke with the urge to cook.

My other awesome sister in law got me a cook book for Christmas. It's "The Pioneer Woman" Cookbook. (AH-MAZING)

In it, there was a french muffin recipe I was DYING to try. Well what better opportunity was there than a snow day. These aren't ordinary muffins. These are muffins rolled in butter and then rolled in cinnamon and sugar.

CALORIE COMA!

But they are SOO worth it.

Brian and I had some of our friends over and I made them breakfast and then I got started on these muffins. They were wicked easy.

They came out of the oven BEAUTIFULY.

If you'd like to try this recipe, you can find it here http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/12/french_breakfast_puffs/
I highly recommend it. However, they go fast and in number. I think one of our (guy) friends had 4.

Thats all for now
-j

Cinnamon Explosion pt. 1

I hope you like my name. I feel pretty proud of myself... No Cinnamon didn't explode in my kitchen... well it has, just in a good way.

I love to bake.

My husband love that I bake.

My friends love that I bake.....

I made. Cinnamon Raisin Bread

A couple weeks ago I wanted to make bread. My awesome Sister in law gave me a bread pan for Christmas. And I wanted to use it. So I did and I made cinnamon raisin bread. I made 3 loafs of it (I gave some of it away so Brian and I wouldn't eat it all.

Before I show you pictures and feel prideful about myself. I'm going to embarrass myself.

I use allrecipes.com I LOVE that website. There is a automatic calculation; you type in the number of servings you want, and it tells you how much you need of what. Well I only wanted 1 Loaf of bread. Seemed reasonable to me.

I started to make the bread and I thought "1 Tablespoon of flour?" How can 1 Tablespoon of flour make 1 loaf of bread. But I've been wrong before so I kept trucking.

Finally when I had all the ingredients in I realized there was NO way that this was going to make a whole loaf of bread. So I asked Brian what he thought. He changed the calculation to 3 loafs of bread because thats what the recipe was originally. Again. Calculations were SOOO small. Then I hear this "oooohhhhhh". Like in Despicable Me when Gru says "Light Bulb"

Brian, My Genius husband informed me that I was trying to make 1 SLICE of bread. That instead I should have been calculating 12, for 1 loaf.

Yep. He's pretty smart.

so then after feeling like an idiot, I made bread. And it was glorious. We ate half a loaf in one night. yeah, it was that good.

If you'd like to try this recipe it's

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cinnamon-Raisin-Bread-I/Detail.aspx

I suggest it. It's amazing.

for funsies

- So I have 2 posts that I'll post hopefully this weekend, that are actually worth some value , I'm just swamped with school work and life. You can thank my Bible prof for that one.


HOWEVER, just because I thought it was funny. And this is the wife life after all.

I've not been sleeping great lately.

So I woke up in the middle of the night at like 3 and Brian had his eyes open and was smiling at me. This goofy, cheesy smile.

Naturally as any girl would.

My thought was, Aww he's watching me sleep how sweet is that...........also a little creepy.

So I roll over and try to fall back asleep.


I look over maybe 5-10 minutes later and he's looking at me again. And has the same cheesy smile on his face......

CREEPPYYYYY

So I whispered "...baby" no response......"Baby".... nuthin.

then i gave him a good ol' wife poke... you know what i'm talking about. the kind that gets 'em right between the ribs.

he stirred and his smile kinda went away. "what?"

".... are you awake"

"well i wasn't" then he continues to roll over and go to sleep.

He gets up the next morning and goes.." did you wake me up last night"

"yeah, you were smiling and had your eyes open it was creepy"

apparently. he was having a dream that he was famous and getting his picture taken for the front cover of Time Magazine. He was also dreaming that the photographer asked him to open eyes eyes bigger. Hence, the eyes open and the goofy smile.

It makes me laugh thinking about it.

I hope it makes you laugh too, not at Brian, but at the situation. Hardly a dull moment at the Colligan house.

And yes for those of you who wonder, I do ask Brian before I put ANYTHING personal about him or us.

thats all for now
-j