Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in hellfire_angel's InsaneJournal:

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
5:59 pm	You are the World Completion, Good Reward. The World is the final card of the Major Arcana, and as such represents saturnian energies, time, and completion. The World card pictures a dancer in a Yoni (sometimes made of laurel leaves). The Yoni symbolizes the great Mother, the cervix through which everything is born, and also the doorway to the next life after death. It is indicative of a complete circle. Everything is finally coming together, successfully and at last. You will get that Ph.D. you've been working for years to complete, graduate at long last, marry after a long engagement, or finish that huge project. This card is not for little ends, but for big ones, important ones, ones that come with well earned cheers and acknowledgements. Your hard work, knowledge, wisdom, patience, etc, will absolutely pay-off; you've done everything right. What Tarot Card are You? Take the Test to Find Out. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Howl- Florence and the Machine (Comment on this)
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
9:12 pm	Made a yummy dinner tonight although it took a bit to prepare but I like cooking and it's what I do for a living so the family benefits from it always. I, of course, made dessert first a tasty cinnamon bun bunt cake with vanilla drizzle. Then started the homestyle mac and cheese and finally I made my own spin on chicken parmesan since I like lots of veggies in my sauce. So this is an aproximate complilation of the way it was mine and a reference to any one who wants to make a tasty dinner in 2 hours flat. Sounds like a long time but it's not. The actual cook time for dinner items was 20 - 40 minutes and the rest was prep unless there are ways to cheat it by buying precut, grated, sliced type things. And also bear with me since I don't measure things hardly ever, I eyeball them to how much I want it to make. So I'm sorry in advance but it works well for me so I'll try to simplify the best I can. Dessert first: This I started at 2:30pm to give lots of time for the dough to rise and it was finished by 4pm Cinnamon bunt cake: Ingredients: part one: 3packs of active dry yeast, 1/2 cup warm water, 1/2 cup warm whole milk, 5 tsp of unsalted butter cubed, 1 tsp of salt, 1 egg, 1/4 cup sugar, 4 cups all purpose flour divided Activate the yeast by pouring it in a bowl with the warm water, wait 3 minutes until it bubbles and set aside. Combine the milk and butter, and heat together until warm to touch, set aside. Mix 2 cup of flour with salt, sugar, and egg. Mix well then pour in the yeasty water, and then the milk. Stir until blended then slowly add in the rest of the flour. knead with hands until all flour is absorbs then turn out onto a floured surface and knead the dough 5-10 minutes. Once smooth place into a large lightly greased bowl and allow dough to rest covered with a towel for 1 hour until doubled in size. Ingredients: part two: 3/4 cup sugar, 5 tsp butter, 2 tbsp ground cinnamon. flour for work surface. raisins, currants, walnut, or crushed pecans optional. Once dough is doubled punch it down in the middle. Turn out onto floured surface and rolled it out into a rectangle to 1/4 inch thickness or a little less. Melt the butter and with a pastry brush or a spoon, coat entire top portion and then combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle on all of the buttered dough. If desired sprinkle the sugar with currants/raisins/nuts and roll dough up jelly roll style. With the remaining butter grease the 10 inch bunt pan and gently place the rolled dough in the pan seal the egdes of both sides to one another and cover with a towel and let dough rise again for 40 minutes. When it rises again it's time to bake. Bake on 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Or until golden on top or when a piece of thin spaghetti or bamboo skewer inserted into it comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack to let cool completely and serve glazed. (glaze: 1 cup or more powdered sugar, 1 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract whisked together and drizzled over cake) Makes about 12 servings. Homestyle mac and cheese Ingredients: 1 pound cooked pasta noodles any kind (al dente) 1 can evaporated milk + whole milk (in the same size of the can) 4 cups any kind of cheese (but have at least 1 cup of processed cheese ex velveeta, cheese whiz ...etc) 2 eggs, black pepper to taste Have noodles cooked and set aside. Heat both milks until almost to a simmer, then add in cheese. Mix it occasionally then in a separate bowl beat the eggs and temper them with a few spoonfuls of the heated milk and cheese mixture. beat them again then pour the tempered egg mixture to the milk and cheese mixture and stir well. Add pepper to taste then spray a baking pan with cooking spray, pour in the noodles and cover with the milk, egg, and cheese mixture. Combine well and then sprinkle with more cheese, (parmesan, cheddar etc) Or use crushed potato chips for a crunchy topping if desired. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until bubbly. Makes around 8 cups. Chicken and Veggie Parm Ingredients: 3 chicken breasts, salt and pepper, 1 can diced tomatoes (or 5 fresh/peeled plum tomatoes), 1 can quartered artichokes, 1 can tomatoes soup, 12 ounces of chicken stock, 16 ounce sauteed or frozen spinach, 5 oz sliced mushrooms, 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, 1 cup flour, 2 tsp parsley flakes, 1/2 a lemon, 1/2 tsp oregano, 1/2 tsp paprika, 1 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp thyme leaves, 1 egg, 1/4 cup milk, 1 tsp lemon juice, 2 tsp butter Clean chicken breasts and cut into small triangle pieces, salt and pepper to taste. Heat a dutch oven (heavy bottomed pot with high sides and a lid) melt butter completely to coat pan. Then combine milk, egg, and lemon juice in one bowl and combine the flour, parmesan cheese and parsley flakes in another bowl. Coat the chicken in milk mixture then dust with flour mixture and place in dutch oven. Brown both sides then set aside on a baking pan. When all chicken is coated and browned. Bake it in the oven on 350 for 15 minutes. The while chicken is baking deglaze the pan with the chicken stock scraping up all the bits on the bottom. Add spinach, mushrooms, artichoked tomatoes, tomato soup and squeeze in juice from half the lemon. Cook all and stir until well mixed, when chicken is done baking add into the pot with the veddies and cook for 15 minutes and serve. Happy cooking!!! Current Mood: full Current Music: Lungs - Florence + the Machine (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
11:26 pm	All righty, since my day was as random as it can be it's time to share more baking recipes and comfort food things that are pretty quick and painless. And are also good if you need to impress people who like to book parties at the last minute like they love to do to me. (ex. today at work >.<' ) Flourless Chocolate torte (or souffle) Serves 8-16 people (it's very rich) 3 large eggs 3/4 cup white granulated sugar 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup dark cocoa powder a pinch of salt 1 tsp. vanilla extract In a bowl whisk the eggs with sugar until light and foamy (about 2 minutes). Put chocolate and butter in another bowl and melt it in the microwave for 1 minute and a half. Stir once it comes out and pour it into the egg mixture. Whisk until blended and add a pinch of salt and the dark cocoa powder and stir until combined. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F and in a heavily greased 8 inch round pan pour the batter. Bake for 30 minutes. Then remove from the oven, let the cake sit in the pan for 15 minutes or until the cake collapses and is luke warm to the touch.To remove the cake from pan take a plater or plate and place over the top of the 8 in pan and invert it while holding the two pans together. Should pop out easily but if any sticks simply scrape them off and press back into the cake and refrigerate until ready to serve. Dust with cocoa powder or powdered sugar or fresh raspberries. I make a fruit sauces for this and here's how. 6 ounces of strawberries, raspberries or blackberries (any combo that is 6 ounces) 1 cup white sugar 1 tsp lemon juice 2 tsp flour 1 Tbsp fruit preserves ( I like orange marmalade or peach) a shot of peach schnapps half a shot of chamborde (raspberry liquor) (Note: if you don't have these use 1 ounce cranberry juice or a sweet white wine) Chop the berries finely and let sit in the sugar for ten minutes, mixing occasionally. Splash in the lemon juice, fruit preserves, and alcohol. Them place in a pan and cook on the stove until boiling. Reduce heat and stir occasionally until fruits are cooked down, about 6 minutes. Stirring constantly add in the flour and cook for another 2 minutes. Remove from heat and strain mixture into a bowl to drizzle over chocolate torte before serving and whatever is left in the strainer can be used as fruit butter. Enjoy! Current Mood: ditzy Current Music: Something in your mouth- Nickelback (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
11:32 pm	<a href="http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/blog_rating"><img style="border: none;" src="http://assets.justsayhi.com/badges/306/143/rated_pg.yjeky5gp4n.jpg" alt="" /></a><p></p> Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)