St. Patty's Liquid Gold

Today is St. Patrick's Day!  I have no affiliation with this holiday!  I didn't even wear green.  I don't have much of it.  But today I was invited to a lovely St. Patrick's pancake party.  We went a little crazy with the green dye pretty much coloring everything that could be colored.  We even colored...  the buttermilk syrup that I brought!  Holy deliciousness.  I have always loved buttermilk syrup.  I've only had it a couple of times in my life.  I thought it was a rare thing that nobody really spoke of.  NOT ANYMORE.  I will be the missionary that spreads the good news that is buttermilk syrup.

I had never made it before, but it worked out quite nicely.  I used this recipe:

½ cups Butter
1 cup Sugar
½ cups Buttermilk
1 Tablespoon Karo Syrup
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla

In a LARGE pot, combine butter, sugar, buttermilk, and Karo syrup, and bring to a boil for about 2 to 3 minutes. Add baking soda and vanilla. Mixture will fizz to TWICE THE SIZE or more, so make sure you use a good-sized pot! Set it aside to thicken while stirring occasionally.  Consume.

I would like to try and make it again with out the Karo Syrup and see if it turns out just the same.   If so, I would totally omit it because it seems redundant.

To give you a feel for size, I doubled this and it was perfect for 12 people.

But seriously, guys. LIQUID GOLD.  Really.

Super delicious.  And SUPER easy to make.  The only problem is that now I have a bunch of buttermilk and no ideas for how to use it.

An Entire Life Update

I made a post a while while back mentioning majors and life choices and all that terrible, awful jazz.  WELL.  I'ma gonna tell y'all what's up.  What's REALLY up.

I'm a Liberal Arts major.   The intent is to become a teacher.  4th or 5th grade is best.  Do I know how I'm going to do this?  NOPE.

I'm a junior now and life is creeping up.   I'm not gonna lie, I didn't really plan for after college.  You know, you're a kid and you plan on going to school and then going to college. But then what?  You tell people what you want to be when you grow up, but that's not for another seven years, right?  NO.  NOT EVEN CLOSE.  That's like a year from now.  I still tell people what I want to be when I grow up.  But guess what. I am grown up.  Technically.

Ruh roh.

Nahh, it'll work out.  I just got to make a couple of phone calls, right?  RIGHT?!

Vanity Post

Lately I've really wanted to get a nice perfume.  One that wasn't some cheep, tweeny body spray.  Something that would last.  One spritz and you're good.  So whilst in the mall we walked into American Eagle.  Not really my store, never go in by my choice.  But, you know, people go in, ya gotta follow, look at the jewels, sunglasses and whatnot.  Well today the whatnot was PERFUME!  Quite fun.  I got a little excited and smelled quite strongly for the rest of the night.

Long story short I picked one and purchased it.  I really like the smell.  Picture:

Good stuff.  And I smell good.  Gotta have a scent, ya know!  That's what everybody says!

Git yo smells.

Creamy Italian Chicken

At this VERY moment I am attempting to make a pretty easy recipe in my crock pot.  It's a creamy Italian dressing chicken sort of deal.  It only has chicken, Italian dressing mix, water, cream cheese, and cream of chicken.  I'm using this recipe as a sort of road map.

Now I woke up quite late today due to the fact that it's spring break.  So I didn't start defrosting the chicken until one this afternoon.  Whoops.  And I put everything together at around five so... dinner at ten!  Also I feel like I may have used the wrong dressing mix, so we'll se how it works out.

I'll keep ya posted!


- - - Update: 7:15

So far so good.  I took the chicken out and shredded it.  And then I added like a cup of milk.  'Cause I felt like it.  I was hoping it would maybe dilute it cause it was pretty salty.   But soon I'll start to cook the noodles and we'll taste the final result!


- - - Update: 830

Well we ate it.  I thought I had a box of bowtie noodles but it turns out I only had like a third of a box.  So I took some of my roommate's angelhair noodles... I need to go shopping.  But anyway, it was pretty good!  I don't know if I should have put that milk in.  It was pretty soupy and I didn't let it cook long enough to boil that away.  The chicken was good.  Other times I have had this dish the chicken was totally in pieces.  So I think the fact that I didn't cook it very long made it so the chicken was still pretty solid.  Next time I'll actually get up and defrost early and then have the whole thing cook for much longer.

I love crock pots!