Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Mission Organization and Nigellissima Mishaps

When it was only 8:53am this morning and before I made it to school I had spent at least 30 minutes of my morning looking for my cellphone, my laptop charger, my wallet, my deodorant, and my jacket. I am not sure how it all started but ever since Zac and I moved to our apartment in Springville, a terrible curse of not-being-able-to-find-anything-we-need-at-the-moment fell upon us and we spend a considerable amount of our day just looking for stuff...everday! Last night it was my pizza cutter which is still M.I.A. How do you lose a pizza cutter? I always kept it in the same place! AHH! It really is driving me crazy.

So...I have decided I am going to Organize EVERYTHING. I was really inspired by MPMK and will be probably utilizing most of their tips and pointers. 

Zac and I will be moving this July and I want to go through ALL of our stuff, de-clutter, trash/donate/sell what I can, organize, and label everything.

High hopes that this will all be done, but once I am graduated in April I will have some solid time to contribute to this major project. It's gonna happen.

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One of my birthday presents from Zac was Nigella's new cookbook Nigellissima. It came out last year in Europe but Zac had to pre-order it since it didn't get released in the U.S. until February. Her book looks great. Very rustic and as always, simple and straight forward.

I tried her yogurt pot cake and it was terrible! It was starchy and every bite was painful to endure. After beginning to think my admiration for Nigella needed to be in serious check, I decided to look at the recipe again and realized that I TOTALLY botched it. I doubled the recipe's flour content and used cornstarch instead of flour, and forgot the milk. Hallelujah! Nigella didn't fail me, It was all a big mistake. So I tried again and it was indeed as delightful as the goddess herself professed. This time I powdered it and drizzled it with Martha Stewart's lemon glaze off of her Glazed Lemon Pound cake recipe and it was divine!

I had a bit of an accident transferring it to my new cake stand (thanks to an awesome birthday present from my SIL)..hence the giant rifts. 

 Cupcakes from the Cocoa Bean...The Key-Lime one was crazy good...tasted just like pie!

the BYU vs. Gonzaga game

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