Red Raspberry Smoothie

When you feel totally useless on a lazy summer afternoon, you begin to feel sleepy (and not to mention smelly). You need something cool, sweet, nutritious and refreshing to shake your brain awake. You go inside your kitchen and find nothing - or so you think. You find nothing but a bag of raspberries in the freezer. Groaning, you get on the computer and search 'things to do with raspberries.' Instantly results pop up, and among them is this:

If You're Hungry and You Know It - Red Raspberry Smoothie

You click on the link, and then you begin making the recipe in utter excitement.

Red Raspberry Smoothie

I invented this totally myself. Shouldn't take long. No telling how much it'll make.

Ingredients

1 cup red frozen raspberries

1/4 cup frozen blueberries

1 cup strawberry yogurt

1/3 cup strawberry ice cream

1/3 cup vanilla ice cream

1 cup water

3 ice cubes

Basically, blend everything together at the same time, and if your blender breaks, I apologize. But you should also blame yourself for following my instructions.

***TIP: Frozen ingredients like to clump together when they're blended. If your blender can't blend anymore, take off the blender-jug or whatever it's called and shake it around, or use a spoon to stir up the contents.

-Nu

TEMPORARY NOTE: I know how you love pictures. I do too. Hopefully I'll get the stuff, make this thing, capture a piece of the past, and share it with you all.

Cool Sugar Cookies

NEVER MIND THE MELONS IN THE BACKGROUND, PEOPLE

This is probably my favorite recipe ever. Taken from The Greatest Cookies Ever by Rose Dunnington, I found this the most interesting recipe in the book. I guess it's because the colors caught my eye with a fishing hook and my eyes are stuck in that book for eternity.

Seriously. I really, really love this book. The best I ever found with the best advice.

The cookies I'm talking about are the ones at the top left of the picture. Yep, they're the ones, and I've made them countless times.

*counts off fingers*

I made those checkerboard ones once, they were turquoise and black - oh, and I also made a guest post for Grandma's blog on the flower ones, plus I did those pink, purple, and yellow striped ones, and those pink and blue ones. Ah, here's a blogpost by my muddah.

I was going to make a post on these on my old blog, The Light's the Limit, but never got it done, as there were a great lot of pictures to be uploaded. But, as of now, it shall be done! LET THE RECIPE COMMENCE!!! *summons caramel-shooter*

The ingredients are...

1 stick of unsalted butter, 1 egg, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 1/2 c flour, and two different colors of food coloring. Ah, the fun part.

♦ Addition: You need egg wash to make your cookies shiny. To make this, crack an egg over a bowl and beat it with some water.

These are sugar cookies. They will be very sweet. I like 'em that way - but no one else in the fam likes 'em.

*smacks self* Unhealthy me.

I did have a video of these cookies being made, but they're on the hard drive which is connected to the other computer which muddah is using and it's got a great many cables to be unplugged and all that junk.

Anyways. To the point.

***WARNING: These cookies require chilling for two hours in the refrigerator. Make sure you have enough time for everything.

It's all settled. The ingredients are above. Get them out and follow these directions.

1. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer. Crack in egg and blend well. Add flour and salt.
   

   
   
   
2. Separate the dough in half. Color each dough ball individually. Wrap and chill the dough for 15 minutes.
   
   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   
3. After 15 minutes, roll the dough and shape them into rectangles. Wrap and chill them for 20 minutes.
4. Make egg wash. ♦
5. Remove and unwrap frozen dough. Brush egg wash on one rectangle and place other rectangle above. Brush egg wash on top. Roll into a log. Be sure you have a spiral pattern.
6. Freeze log for 2 hours.
7. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet. Unwrap log and cut it into slices about 1 cm thick. Place on the cookie sheet and brush with egg wash. Place in oven. Bake for about 10 minutes.

All you do after is wait for 'em to cool, stare at the lovely colors, and hand 'em out to your family. I hope they like the cookies. If they don't, hrmph. Spiteful curmudgeons.

-Nu

PS: I will have this post updated soon with pictures. ☺

Butterscotch Brownies

First recipe of the blog! And we've (whoever WE is) got brownies to start off with!

They aren't exactly brown, but they're brownies.

 

This recipe was taken from a book called The Ultimate Cookie Book. It doesn't exactly have an author, but the recipes are good (most of 'em).

Anywho.

Yield: It depends on how you cut 'em. If you greedily make 'em big, you'll get less. If you generously make 'em small, you'll get more.

Duration: That depends too, considering how long you take to do things.

Ingredients (these are all American measurements)

1 cup softened unsalted butter

1 3/4 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups flour

1 1/4 cups butterscotch chips

1 square semi-sweet chocolate, melted

Yeah, so take out the butter first before everything. Don't melt the chocolate yet as it's for drizzling.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, or 180 degrees C. Grease and lightly flour a 2 inch deep rectangular baking pan.
2. Beat the butter with the sugar until creamy. Add eggs and beat until fluffy.
3. Sift the flour and fold it into the batter. Fold in the chips.
4. Pour all the batter into the baking pan and smooth it evenly. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, or use the toothpick trick.
5. After baking, let brownies cool. Drizzle with melted chocolate and cut into bars or squares, whichever you prefer.

There ya go! All done. Yum.

-Nu

PHOTO CREDIT: My sister's iPhone 3.

Hello, All You Sweet-Tooths.

Greetings. Welcome to If You're Hungry and You Know It. I am Nu.

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...whoever 'We' is.

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-Nu