I only ever post pictures of food! Guess what? I have a video!
Well, it is not my video, but it is a video of something I think is fantastic.
Ok, so in 2006 I was planning my wedding. Wedding planning for me involved countless decisions, lovely showers and parties, many attempts of i-will-do-an-hour-of-yoga-everyday-until-the-wedding but then never even unrolling my mat, a last-minute shrunken wedding dress (that’s for another day), and lots of miles on my car. I lived in Austin and we got married outside of Houston, so probably three of four weekends a month, I drove the 6-hour round-trip to H-town for planning bonanzas for a few months.
Let’s just say I listened to a lot of books on tape. In four months I listened to probably four times as many books on tape as books I have actually read in the past four years. Pathetic.
This book was my favorite. It’s about a girl who’s over her crappy desk job and decides to cook through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one recipe at a time. She has to boil live lobsters and search Manhattan to find parts of pigs that I have never heard of to include in recipes, and she and her husband sometimes don’t eat dinner until 1am because it really just took that long. There are a lot of cuss words through her trials…but in a stick-it-to-the-man kind of way, that makes you want to read (listen?) more.
Here’s the trailer, I hear it opens August 7.
Oh, yes and a recipe. Well, to contrast Julia’s time-intensive recipes, I have the easiest cookie recipe ever.
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Cake Mix Cookies
makes 24 cookies.
1 cake mix (any kind)
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup mix-ins (optional, see below)
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix ingerdients.
Drop dough by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
Bake 8-10 minutes.
Ideas for cake mixes and mix-ins:
- yellow cake with chocolate chips (pictured)
- carrot cake with pecans and coconut
- red velvet cake with white chocolate chips
- chocolate cake with mint chips
- white cake with butterscotch chips and walnuts
- pineapple cake with orange peel
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And if you’re wondering where that particular book-on-tape is, it’s in our car. Still.
By: erikaknox on May 4, 2009
at 1:32 pm
I had a sweet tooth tonight, and this looked super easy so I decided to give it a try. Devil’s food chocolate cake mix with chopped cashews and mini chocolate chips- FABULOUS!! Thanks for the idea!
By: Carey G. on May 4, 2009
at 7:38 pm
This is the recipe you gave me over winter break. I can vouch that it is delicious!
By: blakesunshine on May 4, 2009
at 8:30 pm
Well hello there! It has been a while since I have commented, but that’s not for lack of reading and enjoying the blog.
I have to tell you, my mom is an AMAZING cook and baker, but my little brother discovered at a young age that he loves cake mixes… so since elementary school, my mom has made him his favorite — yellow cake with chocolate icing — on his birthday each year. Brett (younger bro) came to stay with us this weekend in Dallas, and I was able to send him back to Austin with a huge batch of yellow cake mix cookies with chocolate chips. He loved them! Thanks for this easy, tasty recipe. 
By: Katie on May 26, 2009
at 11:23 am