Vicky Learns to Cook

If I'm going to blog, I guess I need to be honest and own up to my failures. I had a good plan, I thought. I had a roast to cook and wanted to do the crock pot thing low and slow. However, my dumb premenopausal brain forgot to take the giant frozen meat chunk out of the freezer the night before and it would not fit. ( I have an old crock pot and I typically have to cut the roast). So my next thought was to thaw it with all the veggies in the roasting pan and later put it in the oven at 300 degrees and cook it for 3 hours. I did this. You'd think that would be similar but it was not. The roaster didn't have the top on it so the top part of the roast, potatoes, and carrots were hard and dried out. yuck. The meat was tasty (thanks to several garlic cloves thrown around the pan) but tough. And as it turns out, those potatoes i got at the farmers market were purple. And not good for roasts. Wrong kind of cooking method I think. Honestly I'm not sure what meal

I'm sitting in my comfy chair with my tired feet up. Preparing for a class is exhausting, even when it is one you would really enjoy, like decorating cupcakes. I make my fair share of cupcakes, sometimes 4 dozen a week, for charity. But sometimes you get stale and stop thinking of cool ideas. I'm hoping to get some new ideas and maybe a new technique or two. To prepare, you not only need to have cupcakes already made, you need to use their frosting recipe and tint 1/4 of it pink. You have to pack your tips, paper towels, a hand towel, a small spatula, 2 bags with couplers, a box, a plate, and a cupcake holder. I had cupcakes made, no problem. But the frosting was a bit more difficult. First my beaters would not fit into the mixer and I had to use one whisk, one beater. Made for a wobbly wonky mixer! Then it was getting super thick, as I had to put 2lb of confectioners sugar in there (the really big bag). After getting done it looked like I'd made butter. I messed