Social Media

Social Media:

My expierence blogging has been good.  I liked cooking all of the food that i put on my blog.  It made it feel personal because I liked all of the food that I made for it.  I also liked when my blog followers commented on my blog because it made me feel like they were interested in what I was writing about and it made me want to write more.  I learened a lot about using my blog and twitter together and how they can help each other work.  Connecting them together was wothwhile because it got my word out there.  If i could do something differntly then I would have better used hashtags.  I would have used hashtags like #recipes rather then #blogging.I liked following people on twitter that have blogs like mine and that are famous cooking stars on tv.  It was easy to get ideas and get inspired by these people through their blogs.  The value of connecting my blog and twitter was that it hekped to boost my blog views. 

A few thing that I learned from blogging is that one, it is a great way to get your ideas out there.  It allowed me to share recipes that I like and that my family use all the time.  It allowed me to share what I thought people may want to know.  I also learned that there are so many thing to blog about within one topic.  I could blog about how to make something and what to put in it or I could blog about how to do something to make cooking easiter.  I learned that you dont need to stick to the same thing in the blog topic because when you branch out it becomes much more interestig.

Blogging was a good expierence and I liked it a lot.  It was a great way to make my didgital footprint.    

Summertime pasta salad

Pasta Salad

An original recipe

This is great for cookouts and just for an easy summertime lunch.

What you'll need:

Italian dressing

Red, orange, and yellow peppers (optional)

Onions (optional)

*You can add whatever vedgetables you like, whatever tastes good!

First you neeed to cook the pasta according to what it says on the box.  Once its done put it in a large container with a little bit or dressing (so the -pasta doesnt stick together) and put in the fridge until it it totally cool.  Cut up cucumbers, peppers, onions, and any other vedgetables you like into small pieces.  Once the pasta is totally cool add the vedgetables and more italian dressing (however much you like).  Then serve, or stick it in the fridge until you are ready to eat it!

Enjoy!  Let me know what  you think!

Cooking tip #5

Corn Without the Silk

Tip By: http://buddychai.com/Misc/KitchenTips.html

With summer quickly approaching so are the cook outs and with cookouts come CORN!  Husking the corn is easy but getting all that silk of isn't.  To do this easily all you need to do is take a damp paper towel and run it downwards along the corn.  This gets all that silk off quickly so you can enjoy your corn and your cook out!

Cooking Tip #4

The Prettiest Cake Ever

Tip By: http://www.power-yoga.com/Community/KitchenTips/tabid/159/Default.aspx

Putting white flour in the cake pan may help your cake not to stick but it leaves an ugly white ring around your cake.  It looks pretty bad but you can't leave half the cake in the pan!  To prevent sticking but still have a pretty cake is save a little bit of dry cake mix to spread around the pan.  This leaves no white ring and your cake will slip right out of the pan.  Your cake will come out pretty each and every time! 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hershey's Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe from: Hershey's Real Milk Chocolate Chips

What you'll need:

2 sticks of softened butter

3/4 cups granulated sugar

3/4 cups brown sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 cups of hershey's milk chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Beat together the butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and vanilla in a large electric mixing bowl until creamy.  Then beat the eggs in one at a time.  In a seperate bowl stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.  Gradually add to the butter mixture.  Stir in the chocolate chips.  Drop teaspoons worth of dough onto a greesed cookie pan and bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.  Remove from pan and place on wire racks until cool. 

Enjoy!  Let me know what you think.

The Best Chocolate Cake EVER

The Best Chocolate Cake EVER

Recipe By: Hershey's Cocoa

This cake is great for any party!

What you'll need:

2 cups of sugar

1 and 3/4 cups of all purpose flour

3/4 Hershey's Cocoa

1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon of salt

2 eggs 

1 cup of milk

1/2 cup of vegetable oil

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 cup of boiling water

First you will need to preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.  Combine all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.  Add eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.  Next stir in the boiling water (this will make the batter thin).  Pour the batter into pans and bake for 30-35 minutes (or until a cake tester or a toothpick comes out clean).  Then let the cakes cool for 10 minutes and remove them from the pans.  

What's a cake without the frosting?

What you'll need:

1 stick of butter

2/3 cups of Hershey's Cocoa

3 cups of powdered sugar

1/3 cup of milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla

First you will need to melt the butter.  Once it is totally melted, remove from heat and add the cocoa.  Alternate adding milk and powdered sugar beating on medium speed.  Add more milk if needed.  Then stir in the vanilla.  

Make sure that you wait until your cake is totally cooled before frosting it!

My favorite way to eat this kind of cake is with a little bit of mint chip ice cream!! 

Enjoy your cake!  Let me know what you think.

Cooking tip #3

Cleaning the Pan

Tip from: http://www.dwlz.com/HealthyLife/healthy42.html

Hate having to scrub burnt food out of your pan.  To avoid this task add some dish soap and just enough water to cover the bottom of the pan and bring it to a boil.  This will make cleaning a breeze!

Spend less time cleaning and more time cooking and enjoying your delicious creations!