Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A fine first paragraph...

You would be forgiven for thinking Alex Morningside was a boy. In fact, she would be the first to laugh at this, because, for one thing, she wasn't, and for another, she didn't mind people thinking otherwise. This was because she had an Excellent Sense of Humor. It wasn't that she wanted to be a boy or anything; it was simply that she didn't see much difference in being treated either as a girl or a boy. Because, after all, everyone is just people.

From Alex and the ironic gentleman. Authored by Adrienne Kress. Brought to you from my quilt fort. Because it has already been a long week, despite being only three days old.

p.s. Check out all the commas in sentence two, and the capitalization in sentence three. LOVE.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Homemade Marshmallows
3/4 cup white sugar
4 Tablespoons corn syrup
1/3 cup cold water + 1 tablespoon
1 heaping teaspoon gelatin
pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla

Sprinkle gelatin on top of 1/3 cup of cold water in a heavy pot. Let sit for 10 min.
Meanwhile:
combine 1 tablespoon water, corn syrup and sugar in a pot over medium heat. Stir a little.
Bring to a boil, let it rapid boil for a minute. Slowly pour into gelatin water pot while using electric beaters on high. Throw in salt. Continue to beat for 15 min.
Once it is quite marshmellow like, add vanilla. Continue to beat until it is well mixed in.
Spread into an parchment paper 8x8 pan. Cover tightly with saran wrap. Keep over night before cutting.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Grandma’s Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe:


1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup peanut butter (I prefer smooth)

1/2 brown sugar

1/2 white sugar

1 egg

1 ts vanilla

1 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

**Feel free to add 2/3 cup of chocolate or peanut butter chips to this recipe


Instructions:


Preheat oven to 325.

Mix together margarine, peanut butter, and sugars until smooth.

Add egg and vanilla. Mix well.

Add flour, baking soda and salt and stir just until combined.

Optional: Mix in chips until well combined.

Drop small balls of dough onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.


If desired, add a criss-cross paper to cookies using white sugar and a fork, lightly pressing down onto the dough.


Bake for 8 minutes.




Chocolate chip cookies:


Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/4 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup chocolate chips


Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix together butter and sugars until smooth.

Add egg and vanilla. Mix well.

Add flour, baking soda and salt and stir till combined.

Stir in chocolate chips until well combined.

Drop small balls of dough onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 8 minutes.


Peanut Butter Balls:


Middle:

1/2 cup butter (slightly less if you use margarine)

1/2 cup peanut butter (crunchy works best)

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

3/4 cups rice krispie cereal.


Mix ingredients together with your hands (it is very messy). Roll into twoonie sized balls and freeze on a wax paper lined baking sheet.


Chocolate coating:

8 squares of semi-sweet chocolate

1 teaspoon baking wax

Melt in a small bowl over a pot of bowling water.


Roll frozen peanut butter balls in melted chocolate using two teaspoons. Place on the baking sheet and freeze once again. These will last in the freezer for months.


Butterscotch confetti:


Ingredients:

1/4 cup margarine

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 cup butterscotch chips

2 cups of small colourful marshmallows


Melt margarine and peanut butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.

Stir in chips until melted. Remove from heat and let sit for five minutes.

Add marshmallows and stir until just coated.

Pack a wax paper lined 9x9 pan. Refrigerate.


Peanut butter layer cookies:


This is the perfect solution for cookies that have didn’t turn out just right. Or even if your cookies were perfect, these are an excellent birthday gift.


Base:

20 homemade chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies


Middle:

1/4 cup butter (slightly less if you use margarine)

1/4 cup peanut butter (crunchy works best)

1 cup icing sugar


Mix together with your hands. Place a teaspoon of mixture on top of each cookie.


Top:

1/2 cup chocolate chips

2 tablespoons of margarine.


Melt in a bowl over a pot of boiling water.

Spoon melted chocolate on top of each cookie, so that peanut butter mixture is covered. Freeze for about twenty minutes.


Carmel Surprise cookies:


Very similar to peanut butter layer cookies, using carmel cup candies.


Cookies:


1/3 cup margarine

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup chocolate chips

1/3 cup butterscotch chips


24 chocolate carmel cup candies


Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Mix together butter and sugars until smooth.

Add egg and vanilla. Mix well.

Add flour, baking soda and salt and stir till combined.

Mix into chips until well combined.

Drop small balls of dough onto cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 8 minutes. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before proceeding.


Unwrap carmel cups.

Place one carmel cup on each cookie.

After about five minutes, gently press down onto carmel cup so that it covers most of the cookie.

Refrigerate for about 10 minutes before eating.


Brownies:


2/3 cup margarine

1 cup sugar

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2/3 cup all-purpose flour (scant)


Preheat oven to 325.

Stir together margarine, sugar and cocoa together in a saucepan over medium heat until melted.

Add salt and vanilla while stirring.

Add eggs and stir briskly to ensure that eggs are completely combined in mixture.

Remove from heat and mix in flour.

Pour into a 8x8 pan, lined with parchment paper.

Cook for about 20-25 minutes, depending on your your preference of texture. Cool before cutting.


Content
Destination
Folder and Filenames
Dessert is Delicious Homepage
[0.0]
/dessertisdelicious/index.htm
About Site
[0.1]

Site Map
[0.2]

About me
[0.3]

Breakfast breads and pastries
[1.0]

Swedish Tea Rings
[1.1]

Chelsea buns
[1.2]

Pie Crust
[1.3]

Cookies
[2.0]

Molasses Cookies
[2.1]

Chocolate Chip Cookies
[2.2]

Double Chocolate Cookies
[2.3]

Peanut Butter Cookies
[2.4]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Cookies
[2.5]

Bars
[3.0]

Brownies
[3.1]

Nanimo Bars
[3.2]

Cakes
[4.0]

Carrot Cake
[4.1]

Coffee Cake
[4.2]

Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake
[4.3]

Peach Cheesecake
[4.4]

Miscellaneous Sweets
[5.0]

Peanut Butter Balls
[5.1]

Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy
[5.2]

Coffee Icing
[5.3]
Dessert is delicious homepage


Dessert is Delicious Homepage [0.0]

About Site [0.1]

Site Map [0.2]

About Me [0.3]


Breakfast breads and pastries [1.0]
Cookies [2.0]
Bars [3.0]
Cakes [4.0]
Miscellaneous Sweets [5.0]

Swedish Tea Rings [1.1]
Chelsea buns [1.2]
Pie Crust [1.3]


Chocolate Chip Cookies [2.1]
Peanut Butter Cookies [2.2]
Double Chocolate Cookies [2.3]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Cookies [2.4]
Carmel Cup Cookies [2.5]

Brownies [3.1]
Nanimo Bars [3.2]
Chocolate Hello Dollies [3.1]

Carrot Cake [4.1]
Coffee Cake [4.2]
Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake [4.3]
Peach Cheesecake [4.4]

Peanut Butter Balls [5.1]
Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy [5.2]
Coffee Icing [5.3]













Proposal

Communications Plan
Project: LIS 9723 Website
Date: March 15, 2010
Background: The author of the site has an extensive collection of recipes on scrap pieces of paper and has recognized that she needs an online space to better organize her recipes.

Key Contact: Meredith Harrison

Communications project leader:
Meredith Harrison

Overall Goal
To create a visually appealing website that indexes family and personal favourite recipes for herself and other interested bakers.

Objectives/Rationale
○ Provide the author a place to post favourite recipes
○ Gives a place to post other baking-related content if her vision for the website becomes more focused on the public in the future
○ Easy to use
○ Provide a place for her friends to find and borrow her recipes
○ Provides a space to host pictures accompanying the recipes
○ Provides an opportunity to create and design elements, including colour palettes and photos

Target Audiences
○ Herself
○ Her friends
○ Bakers who frequently navigate baking blogs

Key Messages/Themes
○ Focuses on baking
○The importance of accurate measuring
○The wonderful product of parchment paper

Strategy
○ Use pictures of personal baked goods as the images
○Use personal favourite and family recipes as content
○ Provide links to personal favourite baking blogs
○Provide architecture that will enable the author to continuously add content
○Relate personal opinions and stories when appropriate
○ Have most of the content done by the mid-point in the course
○Post much of the content on a blog posted by blogspot prior to placing it on the actual website as a method of working from home
Use images that reinforce the theme of the website

Budget
○Whatever my mom is willing to pay for in groceries

Potential Issues
○The creator is unaware of how to create some of the desired website architecture
รจ This may result in modifying the design of the site

Creative Direction
○ A calm but cheerful colour pallet
○ Clean looking
○ Lots of white space
○ CSS layout
○ Use baking-related images as appropriate

Copy & Resource Links
○Use current recipes as majority of content
○ Write new copy for non-recipe sections
○Add to the baking blog links as they are decided upon