Yummy in the Tummy

Hello there! I got to cook this week! I had more of a laid back week because of Martin Luther King day and I didn’t go to school on Tuesday because I was getting stitches on my face from an icy snowball thrown at me. So I cooked an Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake for the senior class/lounge. I got all good reviews and compliments on it. What I keep forgetting to do is put out comment cards. The next time I cook I will need to make sure to do that. One thing I have discovered is that I am not a big fan of bunt cakes or tube cakes. I still like them but out of the different desserts one can make those are probably my least favorite. I don’t like the uncertainty of it top coming out whole or in pieces. The Sour Cream one only had a little bit on the top that didn’t come off but an earlier bunt cake I made was completely ruined and didn’t come out right and I had to put together a simple box cake really quickly. Also, I should have read the instructions all the way through before putting the ingredients on the grocery list because I didn’t read the part about needed one and a half tablespoons of lemon zest. Zesting lemons is a very time consuming task. It took two lemons to grade/zest to get enough. But the good part was that our kitchen smelled amazing! I also made toast with and goat cheese and a low fate Greek yogurt spread with raspberries and honey on top. I made that for myself because it is a healthy recipe from the Jillian’s Michaels book, Master Your Metabolism. I like fixing the healthy stuff for myself and the unhealthy desserts for the class. I also fixed a Mediterranean Pizza. A lot of the ingredients in the Jillian Michaels cook book are organic and all healthy so it is a lot harder to find in the grocery store. So my mom and I couldn’t find whole wheat dough so we had to buy white dough from a package and the directions for that dough and the directions for the recipe differed a good bit. So I decided to improvise and just decide and assume what to put on it and how long to cook it. It turned out good but I forgot to put it in the fridge over night so we had to throw it away unfortunately.  I am planning to cook some more next week