Catching up....

So I'm playing catch up tonight... I keep forgetting to take pictures while I'm cooking... I've been wanting to test out my cake decorating skills from the class I took with my mom from the PA culinary school. So I had a box of German chocolate cake mix, baked the cake and whipped up 2 batches of Buttercream icing. One vanilla and the other peanut butter. The cake had 3 layers of peanut buttercream and the outside was frosted with vanilla... I wanted to decorate the top with roses, but I ran out of icing :( So peanut butter chips and chocolate chips took place of the roses. The cake ended up pretty good... I need to get my hands on some Sweetex, to use inplace of half of the butter for the icing... But I think I did pretty good for my first attempt at icing on my own....

Next up is dinner from Thursday night... Kidney Bean Risotto and Butternut Squash with a Maple Glaze.... I'm too lazy tonight to post the recipes... but if you would like them, comment and I'll send your way... The kidney bean risotto is super yummy! This was my first time cooking butternut squash.. the hardest part was peeling the damn thing! I was surprised how much it tasted like sweet potatoes...

Last night we had friends over for dinner and I made the Mexican lasagna, which is a couple posts below, and caramel apple empanadas for dessert. Wish I bought some vanilla ice cream to go with the empanadas, but I forgot :( We then headed off to Hundred Acers Manor Haunted House to freak ourselves out a little bit. ;)

Last but not least, dinner tonight, Rotini with a blue cheese mushroom cream sauce. My sauce turned out a little runny tonight... I cut down on how much cheese I used, since it was a little overpowering last time I made it... but I guess I should of cut down on the cream too... Third time will be a charm, eh?
Well, I'm going to crash early tonight... back to the grind tomorrow :(