LEEMON SKVARES

Today, in anticipation for some friends coming to practice our song for a Coffeehouse performance, I decided to make lemon squares.

I used a Martha Stewart recipe because none of our cookbooks had such a recipe.
This is my recipe 

Lemon Squares 


Step 1- prepare. 

First thing's first. Preheat your oven to 350˚F. Then you can grease your glass dish. The dish should be relatively rectangular, and with dimensions resembling 9"x 13"

Then, you can line the dish with parchment (it helps at the end, you'll see)

Step 2 - make your crust

Grate the butter with a cheese grater (use the big holes)

(I can't say I've ever grated butter with a cheese grater, but that's what it says!)

Whisk together the flour and confectioner's sugar, and then add the butter and stir with a wooden spoon

You might use your clean hands for this part instead, but combine the butter and the flour misture until it's about crumbly, it will look like this.

 Then, you can squish this mixture into your pan (evenly), and refrigerate it for 15 minutes. When it comes out, you can put it in the oven for 14-16 minutes.

In the meantime...

Step 3- make your filling

In a large measuring cup (or jug, you just need something with a lip) whisk together your eggs, flour, and sugar. Then, add the lemon juice, and the milk.

Step 4-put it all together!!

Remove the crust from the oven, and pour the lemon mixture onto the crust. 

YUMMY. Then, you can place this back into the oven for 18 minutes or until the edges are brown. The latter it more important. My lemon squares took 25 extra minutes because the lemon bit was much thicker than the recipe's yield.

Keep an eye on it, because this part's fidgety, your lemon squares might cook much slower, or much faster than the recipe (depending on the pan you used.)

After the 18 minutes, you can take the squares out, and sprinkle with toasted coconut, or icing sugar!! 

This it where the paper comes in handy. After letting the squares cool enough for the paper to be touchable, you grab two corners of the paper, and place the squares on a plate (have this prepared).

Peel back the paper, and cut into serving sizes! YUM!

 enjoy!

I did.

Here's some music to lemon-square-dance to!

Obsessions- UPDATE

Okay, so, this was a while ago, but I thought I'd let all of my lovely readers know that the APPLE PIE YOGURT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! MY LIFE IS INCOMPLETE.

I mentioned it HERE before, in case you have no idea whatsoever what the hell I'm talking about with this apple pie yogurt. Well, let me repeat, I LOVED THAT APPLE PIE YOGURT WITH MY WHOLE LIFE. IT WAS BETTER THAN ICE CREAM.

Anyway, enough of my ranting, and wheezing.

I'll tell you about rowing. I don't think I've mentioned my commitment to the most amazing sport ever. Yes, rowing and I go way back, we shared the water back in grade nine, I rowed his boats, and built HUGE muscles while doing so.  (I realize now that personifying 'rowing' was not such a good idea. This is because I possess a mind that is most often in the gutter, and I am getting some quite dirty thoughts from 'rowing his boats'... This further proves my teenager-ness. I apologize for such a large interlude right in the middle of a paragraph)

You get the idea. I'm a bit giddy right now, and slightly happy that rowing season has come around.

AAAAAAAND HERE'S A PICTURE!!

(The dog is Binx...Binx had a tumor on her face. Anyway, this was after an agonizing race in grade nine. I'm second from left.)

So now that you know what rowing looks like, go steal a boat and try it!! But not actually, walk to your local rowing club, get a piece of paper, sign your life away, and get in a boat. But then learn what to do from there. It'll be fun.

NOW HERE'S A DEPRESSING SONG WITH AN EVEN MORE DEPRESSING VIDEO!!!!!

YAY!!

:)

APPLE SPLITTING ACTION

So, I mentioned in the afore post of my apple-splitting abilities, and not I will exhibit my superhumanness (which according to blogger is a word, because there is no little dotted red line underneath...)

Just so you know, this video took a few tries, as my mum invaded the one I made before; she tried to talk to me....grrr :P So now I have a nice pile of half-apples surrounding me. I'm gonna have to get eating.

I also look fairly exhausted in the film, as I was out in the woods today preforming Macbeth with my English class. And in case it's of any interest, (which it probably isn't) I'm about to soak my feet in the hottest bath known to man, and hope I don't get a heart attack. Plus eat my apples.

And now for a musical interlude.

Anwyn just recently showed it to me. I can't believe I didn't know it. AAHH SUCH A GOOD SONG.

Obsessions.

So guess who has a new obsession? I DO! I DO!
Lets see if you intuitive types can guess what it is.

Huh? Huh? Huh? Yeah it's yogurt. BUT NOT JUST ANY FLIPPIN' YOGURT!!!

The most creamy, delicious, decadent, better-than-ice-cream-and-I'm-not-kidding yogurt. All other flavours are good, but apple pie is the best. I think. (I've only gone as far as apple pie and cherry...)

I'm advertising again. But Liberte is Canadian. And it makes the most amazing heaven-food in the world. It is based in Quebec, and all the products are manufactured in the Montreal area. Please eat some of their apple pie yogurt. I'm not kidding. It's better than ice cream. 

Also, while we're on the subject of apples, I just thought I'd tell you that I found out today that I possess the superhuman power of being able to split an apple in half with my bare hands. I'll post a video later.

http://www.liberte.ca/en/yogurt-mediterranee-products/mediterranee_apple_pie_yogurt.sn

And now for some more Montreal goodness. :)

I'm in heaven. (drool)

Cake. Kake. Cace. Kace. Whatever. It all tastes good.

bSo, Being the exciting person that I am, I decided to google 'cake'. Yep, I'm cool. So guess what I came across? A baby cake. For a baby shower. Yep, now you can have your baby, and eat it too!! Yummy!

My mouth is totally watering right now.

I'm a little lazy right now, slash homework is kind of taking over my life. So, I haven't done much on this blog. I'm sorry. BUT Charlotte decided to show me today the art of button making. yep. So now I has a bunch of new button thingies. So, use the buttons on the page labelled 'BUTTONS'.  Okay. Bye.

COOKIES!!!

Today, In my late August boredom, I decided to make cookies. I commenced my mini adventure by cycling up to No Frills for some brown sugar, and chocolate chips. YOU CAN'T HAVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WITHOUT CHOCOLATE CHIPS!! Then, upon returning, I ran to my best friend, Mr. record player, and put on the record that I just purchased: Paul McCartney and Wings- Band on the Run. Good record. After that, I immediately consulted my handy dandy JOY OF COOKING and asked it to give me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It did just that, and now I will show you how I made them.

(This is a really crappy picture)

First, I preheated the oven to 375ºF. 

Then, I Whisked together: 

1 cup + 2 tablespoons of flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

Then, I used my beater, and beated me some sugar, and butter. MMMMM.

8 tablespoons (1 stick) of butter, softened. *I used salted because it's better.

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

(cream them together till fluffy)

*this is where you are allowed to snack, because once we add the eggs, there's salmonella swimming everywhere in that bowl.*

(again, crappy picture)

Then I added some egg, and vanilla, and a bit of salt. 

(I really should have omitted the salt because I used salted butter, but whatevs)

1 large egg

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

(This picture turned out red. Heheh THE COOKIES FROM HELL!!!)

Then I added my flour mix from before to this buttery mix, and CREATED A MONSTER!!!

I beated them up too. :)

THEN

I added to chocolate chips:

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

And poured a little bowl for myself. :)

I decided next that I would have to grease the pan. (although the cookies still stuck, so pile on that butter)

(grease 2 cookie sheets)

Then I dropped tablespoonfuls of dough onto the greased sheet. *put less dough per ball than I did here, unless you want mutant conjoined cookies*

Then place them in the oven for:

  8-10 minutes

Waiting...

THE BUZZER SOUNDS!!

Then I took my cookies out, and let them dry... I mean cool.. :P

FINITO!!

YUMMY YUMMMMMMY!

All Gone. P:

Here's my cookie soundtrack.

Enjoy!

-Augusta