Cosas

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My aunt Connie gave me this really cute towel and pot holder set after she noticed that I fell in love with it. I'm eager to cook and pick up a hot pan using the gingerbread person. Although, it's so cute I think I want to hang it up as decoration instead. My aunt rules!

In other news, I believe I am the worst baker in America. I managed to ruin several recipes today and wasted lots of time. I finally decided to throw everything away and go buy a box mix. :( Aka fattening. I think the worst part about baking is trying to make it healthy. Everything ends up tasting like cardboard. Although, there was one recipe I liked that I tried awhile ago for strawberry cake that came out great. I ended up making the frosting taste gross though.

Frosting is another issue! It's hard to make a great tasting frosting without using sugar. I ended up ruining some buttercream frosting by trying to use half Splenda have powdered sugar. Let me just say, that was the worst mistake I've ever made in my life. In the end and after wasting a lot of ingredients, I decided to make a cream cheese frosting using cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. However, my sister-in-law gave me a better recipe using heavy whipping cream which is MUCH LIGHTER! I am not really a frosting/icing person so I can't wait to try this the next time I bake.

It came from... Earth

A few pictures from my visit to the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Houston Museum of Natural Science last year. When I look at these alien-like formations, I wonder what else on our berry own Earth is just waiting to be discovered. Visiting this exhibit was so much fun and I hope to go back one day to become one with the minerals. In the meantime, collecting them will do!

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