2011 and beyond!

Here it is, New Year's eve, and yea, I am blogging for the last time in 2011. I am not even sure if more than two people even read my blog, but felt the need to post anyway.this past year has brought about quite a bit of change for me as well as my kiddo. We moved away from Arizona to join Robert in Texas, obviously the biggest change wss getting married to Robert. We are still adjusting, but that comes with the territory, and not quite sure if we will be fully adjusted, just to a level of comfort with the new life, because our way of living in the past is, well, behind us. I look forward to all the new adventures that lie ahead of us as a family. 2012 is going to bring more changed for us, the one most obvious one to me right now is that I am starting back to school in January, it was a nice break while it lasted, but should haven known I can't stay away from learning for too long. One thing I have enjoyed doing since moving is cooking! In my previous marriage, he was way too picky for me to fully explore the culinary world, Robert on the other hand, I feel is my own personal Anthony Bourdain, arm him with some hot sauce and I do believe is will be willing to try anything I cook once. I have been toying with the idea of getting work in the cooking industry (private chef or with a catering company) but I am beginning to feel that perhaps I should just stick to cooking for friends and family and continuing my persist of working in the mental health field.mincood workmwithncrazynpeople all day and get my release in the evening with a nice glass of wine and pounding out some chicken breasts to be rolled up with cheese and veggies and then pan seared to perfection (I am sure there are some technical terms to be learned here, but that will have to wait). Now onto something new for me, resolution. I had managed to make it up last year without ever making any resolutions, last year I resolved to take more pictures of the kiddo, well, started strong ended with a pft, so, renewing that resolution for the upcoming 2012 season, let's see how far I make it this go around. I also would like to blog abut some of my culinary adventures, triumphs, and defeats, is there anyone out there willing to read about them? If so let me start now, tonight I made a special desert to go along with the champagne, to me it is a triumph, to Robert, it was good but too rich for his liking (the perils of having a husband without a sweet tooth to match mine). What is this desert you might ask? Well, they are Oreo truffles! And so stinking easy to make, I always look on the Internet for ideas, today I put in cream cheese and cocoa powder as my ingredients and came up with several ideas, the only one that appealed to me however was Oreo truffles, and like most of the time wheni cook, I use the recipe as a base and add my own twists, so here is how I did mine tonight:

Half a package of Oreo cookies, crumbled in the food processor with the last piece of Christmas fudge ( my twist), add half a package of cream cheese, mix well. Freeze mixture until solid enough to rollinto balls, place balls on a nonstick surface, freeze again for approximately a hour. Sift cocoa powder and powdered sugar (powdered sugar was my twist) together in a small bowl, roll truffles in the cocoa powder mixture, freeze or put in fridge. When served, dust powdered sugar over truffle on plate.

Well that is all from me in 2011. Happy New year to all and please be safe and watch out for others if you are on the roads tonight.