there aren't enough food threads here.
i posted a cooking thread at another forum and thought i'd post it here as well so all the time i spent taking pictures wasn't totally wasted. enjoy!
I cook quite often but this is the first time I ever thought to take pictures of everything and share it with you guys.
Tonight's menu is scallops in a garlic butter with yellow rice. For dessert, we have chocolate chip muffins! Yum.
Since the chocolate chip muffins will take the longest, we'll go ahead and start on that first.
Assemble the ingredients:
We will need:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick butter (melted)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cups milk
3/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Here is a picture of the flour in the beaker. Thanks Alton!
Also, please use REAL vanilla extract in your baking. Imitation is disgusting. It's really worth the extra money (bonus if you buy it during the holidays when spices go on sale, I got mine for half off). Sorry for the blurry pic:
Now at this point you put all the ingredients into your mixer and turn it on a moderate speed. Be sure to stop along the way and scrape the sides of the bowl!!
Once the dry and the wet ingredients are completely combined, toss in your chocolate chips (you can certainly substitute anything in its place like blueberries, cranberries, etc.):
When completed, the mix should look like this:
BTW, you did preheat your oven to 400 degrees, didn't you? (Also, bring two cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan.) Now put the little muffin tins into your muffin pan. As you can see here I only ended up with 11 (recipe says it makes 12) muffins because I probably put too much mix into each tin. Oh well.
i posted a cooking thread at another forum and thought i'd post it here as well so all the time i spent taking pictures wasn't totally wasted. enjoy!
I cook quite often but this is the first time I ever thought to take pictures of everything and share it with you guys.
Tonight's menu is scallops in a garlic butter with yellow rice. For dessert, we have chocolate chip muffins! Yum.
Since the chocolate chip muffins will take the longest, we'll go ahead and start on that first.
Assemble the ingredients:
We will need:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick butter (melted)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cups milk
3/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Here is a picture of the flour in the beaker. Thanks Alton!
Also, please use REAL vanilla extract in your baking. Imitation is disgusting. It's really worth the extra money (bonus if you buy it during the holidays when spices go on sale, I got mine for half off). Sorry for the blurry pic:
Now at this point you put all the ingredients into your mixer and turn it on a moderate speed. Be sure to stop along the way and scrape the sides of the bowl!!
Once the dry and the wet ingredients are completely combined, toss in your chocolate chips (you can certainly substitute anything in its place like blueberries, cranberries, etc.):
When completed, the mix should look like this:
BTW, you did preheat your oven to 400 degrees, didn't you? (Also, bring two cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan.) Now put the little muffin tins into your muffin pan. As you can see here I only ended up with 11 (recipe says it makes 12) muffins because I probably put too much mix into each tin. Oh well.