Please Bear With Me!

Ok, so life around here is pretty hectic these days. I've had people coming out of the wood work asking me if I can do there taxes. Of course I'm happy to (and I sure don't mind the extra $$) but with my next guest getting here in less than a week I got some late nights ahead of me.

On top of that I have to get every picture I have in the apartment scrapbooked, take a 40 hour online class, scrub the apartment top to bottom twice, finish up the taxes, finish planning my networking event, and get my laundry list of real estate stuff done before I come home (in T minus 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days). Oh, and before I come home I still have a trip to Prague and Berlin to fit in!

Not even having a 'real job' I'm going into busy season mode (you know, no sleep, work all the time, survive on red bull and vodkas...the red bull keeps me awake, the vodka keeps me sane.)

But I did take some time out to do some baking a couple of weekends ago for Valentine's Day. I was pretty proud of myself that Kyle ate everything and didn't even tell me it was terrible. I must say, I've gotten a LOT of use out of my Better Homes and Garden's red plaid Cookbook. It's my 'go to gal' and I always look there before I hit the internet.

I was very impressed with my yeast abilities. I'd never cooked with yeast before (and probably won't much in the future because it gives Kyle headaches) but now I know I can and can always make my 'yummies' when guests come.

The problem is I don't know if you can open a packet of yeast and not use it all (and it still be good in the future). I mean, there's gotta be a reason that recipes call for '1 packet' and not '1 tablespoon'. It wouldn't come in pre-portioned packets if it didn't have to, right? (...I know I could google it if I really cared - obviously I don't...)

Anyway, as my Valentine's gift to Kyle I tried to kill him. Here's breakfast, lunch and dinner:

And this is only 1/2 the food: 2 pans of cinnamon rolls, twice as much pasta, and 2 heart shaped pizzas. All of these made 100% from scratch. Let me tell you, just spring for the $1 box of pasta at the store. It was good but it was a lot of work and didn't necessarily taste any better then store bought. I'm sure if I made it more I could doctor it up to taste better - but it's just not worth it.

The pizza was very good and really not that much work plus we could make it how we wanted. (Don't worry, I still buy the store bought kind for when it's Kyle's turn to 'cook') I think next time I'll let it rise just a little bit before I bake it.

...I may or may not make cinnamon rolls with double cinnamon for whine Justin shows up on Tuesday...