Sunday, November 9, 2008

Catching up and something interesting

Catching Up On My Life
Hi! Sorry Aunties I've haven't been able to get to this to write. I've been good. School and other activities have been well. math I have a little hard with, but I'm still working hard. My English teacher keeps giving us work. We are doing a book report, but she has separated it into 4 parts. We have done 2 already. Its kind of fun. It all depends on what you like. Reading a lot or very little. Church has been fun and great. In my church class at school I've learned more about the scriptures. My friends are funny and nice to hang around with. My teachers are nice most of the time. I want to start driving soon. We haven't been able to get the book. My friend just passed so she is going to lend me when she can find it. Also I need to get in the drivers seat. I think once I get it with my big family and all it will be very helpful. My school is nice and I like it a lot. My friends and I talk about different things and one of the subjects is boys. One of my friends was having boy problems and in the end it all worked out. So they are together. I think some of the boys are cute. There is this one boy that I think is cute. I kind of like him as well. Sometimes our eyes meet but then, one of us turn away. When I'm sitting he and his friends come around there and I have him in 3 of my classes. He He! I haven't told my mom jet. Any way I cleaned my room finally yesterday. I also reset my room. That's all for now.

Something Interesting
I read this book called Flavor of the Week. Its by Tucker Shaw. Its about a 16 year old boy who cooks. Every chapter is named after a foo the boy cooks. If you like I think that you should read it. Its not very long. The most is 219 pages. Also the Aurthur gives the recipe for each food or drink. The sound good by what the Aurthur wrote. The recipes count as some of the pages. I want to write the recipes for you. I haven't tryed cooking them yet. So I really taste good. The Aurthur has written other books. He is also a cook. The names of the food are kind of weired. Here they are:

Kitchen-sink cookies
Ingredients:
1 (3/4) cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon fresh baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 (1/4) cups firmly packed brown sugar. light or dark.
2 teaspoons whole milk
3 teaspoons real vanilla extract. Not imitation, ever.
2 cups uncooked old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1-2 cups Reese's pieces, coconut flakes, walnuts, M&M's, or what ever else you feel like

Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
  2. Get all your ingredients organized. Make sure you have everything.
  3. In a median bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
  4. In a large bowl with electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar on median speed until creamy, about 2 minutes.
  5. In a smaller bowl gently beat the eggs with a fork to break up yolks.
  6. Add the nutmeg,eggs,milk, and vanilla to the butter mixture; beat on median for another minute until color is even and texture is consistent.
  7. Add the four mixture to the butter mixture; mix at median speed until blended.
  8. Fold in all the good stuff: oats, chocolate chips, coconut, nuts, whatever. Do this gently. Don't over mix. in fact under mix.
  9. Drop dough by big fat rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets lined with parchment paper, waxed paper, or a Silpat liner. (Don't worry about putting parchment paper or waxed paper in oven. it won't catch on fire or anything like that.)
  10. Bake 9-10 minutes in the middle of the oven. Bake in one sheet at a time, so cookies bake evenly. It takes longer this way, but it's worth it.
  11. Cool 1-2 minutes on cookie sheets;then remove to wire rack.
  12. Eat. If there are any left, store them tightly covered at room temperature.

Makes two to three dozen cookies.

The recipes are kind of long so every time I write I will just put 1 recipe. If you try this please comment to tell me how it went.

Bye! Aunties and Family (DD) please try this. (You don't have to if you don't want to!)

Thank you for reading this!

KEEP ON SMILING !

2 comments:

*~Petra~* said...

Hi Jessika!

I was so glad to see you posted today. I thought maybe you had forgotten. ;)

It sounds like you are making lots of friends and settling into school. You sound really happy and that is awesome. Ooooh... so there is a boy you like eh? And you turn 16 in like two months... so who knows! Won't it be fun to start dating??? I look forward to hearing about all your adventures. ;)

Wow... that cookie recipe looks awesome. I think I will have to try it. I especially like the last ingredient... who doesn't like m&m's, reeces pieces, etc... the possibilities are endless!!!!

Look forward to seeing your next post. My desktop has a reader on it which alerts me everytime you update, so I ALWAYS know!

Love ya!

Jessika Santizo said...

Yeah! I need you to come over to show me many things about this. Yeah I like a boy. His name is Peter. he has light green eyes and dark brown hair. He sticks the top of his hair. He is nice. Thanks for reading my blog. Love ya! jessie!