Oh man! Where To Start?

I'm so happy I'm not that poor lady on TLC's "What Not to Wear" who was wearing an eggplant outfit. EW! 


 Welcome to Miss. Diane's little blog.
I never thought I would create my own blog but now  it's the best time. I hate cooking. Not only do I hate cooking, I suck at it. For many many years I've single-handedly lived off of take-out and I've never baked a cake before last week. and I still can't make it taste good. It's pretty sad and hilarious! 
I'm also going to make this my connection while I travel out and about! Some personal information might make on here, but nothing juicy! ha! 
While I was thinking of something witty to type next, I spilled hot tea all over my jeans. 
Awesome. 

Cakes, Frosting and Cookie.. oh my!

HOLY COOKING ADVENTURE! 

So earlier I decided that my baking challenge tonight was chocolate chip cookies.

When I started, I was gathering all the ingredients  and realized I was missing just about everything..ha of course! After a quick trip to the local Stop and Shop, I was ready to go! 

My good lord they are delicious! I took out the butter about 4 hours in advance and let them warm up by the wood-burning stove which an incredible difference.  I was ambitious enough to tackle the vanilla cake and chocolate frosting.. Oh yes I did! 

The cake came out amazing and the frosting is just enough chocolate and wasn't over powering or like the old frosting. 

Oh my! Everything came out so yummy! 

Just Desserts

I am a fan of list. Writing a list of things to get done in the day. What I need when I go out shopping, how I go about cleaning my room. I know it's a little OCD but it keeps me focus. Today, another item was put on "My 2010 Year List"..... DIANE'S GOING ON A CRUISE!!! It's a 4 day cruise that leaves out of Miami and goes to Key West and Cozemule for my brother's fiances bachelorette party! I'm super excited! 


Something else I'm excited for is my baking adventures for tonight. I'm going to try to bake chocolate chip cookies. Please understand the key word is "try". My first cake didn't contain any vanilla extract just anise extract. It looked like a cake, it smelled like a italian cookie and tasted like an italian cookie that should have been thrown out a week ago. My second cake, was a step above the first. It contain the right extract but it didn't rise. How can a cake not rise!!! It was discouraging and I haven't baked since then. It's time I try again. I am going to master these chocolate chip cookies. It contains two sticks of butter which need to be at room temperature. I put the butter near the wood burning fire for a few hours. The key to baking is butter. I never knew that. Honestly, I don't know much about cooking or baking but I am really excited to figure it out. 


Earlier, I successfully made popcorn on the stove top.
Future advise: Use a much bigger pan or less kernels.