Happy Recipe Posting of the Day

[orichalcum]

For Easter:
Cadbury Creme Egg Muffins

Yes, that's right, a cadbury creme egg embedded inside a vanilla muffin....it's calling your name.Eowyn

Also, a lazy hamantaschen recipe

Happy Dog Moment of the Day: Eowyn joyously outracing the other golden retriever at the dog run.

Sad-puzzling moment of the day: How exactly does someone lose a 125-lb Newfie? I mean, I'm sorry for the owners and I hope they find their dog soon, but really, it's not like they run very fast, or you can just steal one and tuck it in a handbag. And, um, not exactly inconspicuous.

Comments

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Poor lost Newfie! I hope they find it soon.

And I might have to try those hamantaschen, especially since I seem to have lost my rolling pin :) It all depends on whether I have more time on Thursday so I can give them freezer-time, or on Friday so I can use the non-freezer recipe.

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

ooh, great recipe. I was drooling over the hamantaschen at the supermarket even though they looked pretty crappy... I have never made them before, but when i get back from Cleveland it might just be time. :)

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

If this is your first time making hamantaschen, I have two pieces of advice:

1) chocolate chips are an awesome filling :)
2) be careful not to overfill! It's really easy to overfill, and when that happens, they unfold while they're baking, and the filling spills out and it's horrible and messy. I've made them a bunch of times and I still have a hard time getting it right. So use less filling than you think they need :)

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tips! I will exercise caution and restraint in my fillings. :)

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...homemade hamentaschen! Problem is, I am really attached to poppy filling which I'm sure I can't get down here.

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

You like the poppy filling? Wow. More power to you, I guess. I prefer the extremely nontraditional strawberry jam and chocolate chips :)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, you totally beat me in hamantaschen points. I can't stand the poppy filling.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Why are you going to Cleveland?

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as a kid I used to eat out of my mom's poppy seed jar in her spice rack. She was convinced I was going to get tested for drugs at school and come out positive for opium.

Also, I'm a traditionalist. If it's not poppy, apricot, prune, or maybe raspberry it's not a hamentaschen. I still refuse to eat any bagels besides poppy, sesame, garlic, onion, or cinnamon raisin, so at least I'm consistent.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Cinnamon raisin...for the Sephardic Jewish tradition?

Poor stoned little meepo...

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

My basic (mostly subconscious) principle seems to be: If my grandmother's bakery in NJ sold it when I was a kid, it is ok. They had cinnamon raisin. I actually don't like raisin's much, so I'm not a huge fan, but they do pass "valid tradition" muster for me.

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

My grandmother lives in Cleveland, my mom's family is from there.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, you would actually test positive for cocaine, not opiates. Weird but true.

My mom used to make danish every easter, and I never liked the poppy filling in those either. I was an apricot girl all the way. Hell, my mom made danish while she was in early labor with me, so there were snacks for once the doctor arrived (yay Amish country where you could still be born at home _with a doctor attending_ in the 1970s.)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

They probably let her eat, too. Let me tell you, 22 hours of labor with nothing but clear fluids is Not Fun. I so deserved my cafeteria chocolate chip cookie the next afternoon. :)

[kid-cthulhu.livejournal.com]

Finding the lost Newfie should be no problem. Just follow the drool trail. He's probably heading to your house for baked goods right now!

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was another thought. CP suggested kidnapping, but really, I'm pretty impressed by any kidnappers who had the strength and equipment to abduct a Newfie.

[kid-cthulhu.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised how easy it is to abduct a dog. Many of them will follow anyone with a hot dog, and once they're moving, you just bundle them into the car and go. And most are leash trained enough that if you get a leash on them, they'll walk along with you wherever.

My only comfort with Finney is that if he's tied out and I'm not there and someone approaches him, he's more likely to go Cujo than to come along nicely. Then again, that's not always good!

Argo would follow anyone with a hot dog. But then she'd escape their clutches and go all McGuyver on their secret lair and blow it up. She's an evil genius that way.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I'm just not gonna quote the line from an episode of Scrubs I saw the other night, regarding why you might not have liked the outcome if you _had_ eaten solid foods during that time. But yeah, I bet that was not fun. Just thinking about it is making me want Gatorade really badly, actually....

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Y'know, you're making me want a dog... even though if I had a MacGuyver dog it would probably grow up thinking its name was "Dammit!"

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

"Until I was 10, I thought Ivan was your middle name..."

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Armed only with a hot dog, Argo picked the lock and dashed for freedom...

Mac's taken lately into crawling into Eowyn's crate and pulling the gate shut behind him. This clearly unnerves Eowyn and she tries to pull it back open, resulting in an amusing reverse tug of war. However, it has seemed to make her like her crate less, which is unfortunate.

[stone-and-star.livejournal.com]

Come on, you don't think those of us who went through childbirth classes (and labor!) are ignorant of the possible consequences of eating during labor, do you? Even the clear fluids are not risk-free.

(I actually smuggled some food into the hospital in my bag to eat during the early stages. And by the end, hunger was not the physical sensation bothering me the most.)

(Okay, I should stop talking about hunger while I'm fasting.)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

True enough - hunger was mostly irritating somewhere around Hour 15.

But yeah. :) I just realized that I could give gifts of fresh hamantaschen to both my babysitter's kids and my independent study student tomorrow, fulfilling that particular mitzvah. :)

[kid-cthulhu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got to say you need to kill this behavior now. Mac has to know in no uncertain terms that the crate is Eowyn's and it is her safe place. And you certainly don't want her to dislike her crate, so it's got to be Mac who gets trained. It's cute once, but after that, he's probably enjoying getting her to react and play with him.

Maybe teach her to tug with a toy, and Mac can play that game instead?

"Im in yr crate, dissin' yr dog."

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's right, a cadbury creme egg embedded inside a vanilla muffin

I think that particular "muffin" has stepped taken a giant leap over the line into "cupcake" territory.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Agreed. One of the most important parts of crate training is to give the dog a sense of ownership of the space. That's why only one of our dogs has the crate. If the other, much better behaved dog, needs to be confined for some reason (which happens very rarely) we lock him in a bathroom or closet. We would never put him in the other dog's crate.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Oh, they've played that game for months. It's not about finding a way to play with Eowyn for Mac (currently the favorite baby-dog game is "London Bridge"); it's his fascination with doors and a sense of agency. The only good current solution is blocking access to the crate which is obviously problematic.

On the plus side, he has learned both how to pour kibble from the big bag into her bowl and how to offer her food - palm out, slightly below her jaw. No sense of "doggie treats are a sometime food," though.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

It's lucky Eowyn is energetic enough to burn off whatever extra Mac gives her! Our dogs (ok really only the older one) would plump up like a balloon if Mac were around to practice his "food sharing".

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Not so much, as it turns out....my babysitter's 5-year-old daughter appears to have fed her an excess of biscuits today and well, there was mess from every end imaginable about half an hour ago. :(

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

The author of the recipe actually talks about why she wanted to go for the muffin approach rather than the cupcake one.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear. :(

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

Hey, I finally tried this hamantaschen recipe.

It's good (and I can't argue with the simplicity), but sweet sweet sweet and a bit bland. I think it could do with rather less sugar, and a pinch of salt. Also, 1/4 inch thin slices are the absolute maximum, I think.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I had meant to post a review. I basically had the same opinion - not bad, but wouldn't make again - definitely needed more spices I think.

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

hm-- you know what would be nice in it, I think? A bit of ground cardamom in the dough. I think that could work well. :)