(Old blog post from another bloghost)

December 21'st '05

Wednesday

Yes, I am ashamed to admit my cooking skills are VERY poor. Oh I can cook eggs, roast beef, spaghetti, ham..., etc., all the easy stuff, plus prepared meals in boxes, (but I don't really like that kind of stuff).
I am trying to expand my culinary knowledge. So today in attempt TO expand my knowledge on cooking I started to cook Coconut Macaroons. I had everything ready. First batch of my coconut macaroons were on the verge of burning.

GREAT.

I put the second batch in the oven, after fifteen minutes of waiting for the cookies to cook, I find out the oven was off! so on goes the oven and I wait another fifteen minutes. The second batch was almost like the first batch. Third and last batch was semi perfect. I dare say they are pretty good. During all this I thought of dipping it in chocolate, like the girl scout cookies. So out comes the baking chocolate. The recipe called for semisweet chocolate but I only had UNSWEETEND chocolate. I shrugged, "Oh well, I'll just add sugar." The melted chocolate looked great, despite it being VERY VERY bitter, in the sugar went. I had a imaginary moment where I thought the chocolate was turning solid on me, so I added milk.

BIG mistake.

It turned fudge on me. AURGH!! oh well, all is fine now...I am just a little disappointed my coconut macaroons aren't dipped in chocolate. *Sigh* I guess I can't have everything.

Christina