Introducing..the newest BRATT of ASPCA!.....and some other things.

I really wanted to make Kevin's dinner party at Iron Cactus last night, which he pushed back from 6pm to 8pm just for me but I had work from 2-9pm. When I got off at 9pm I rushed home, changed, scooped Bao and was ready to leave the apartment around 9:30 and I called Kevin but he said they were about to leave. :( So me and Bao just went to eat at Bennigan's and I drank a lovely peach bellini there and he had 2 margaritas. The bellini hit me kind of strong while the 2 margarita's didn't hit Bao until later. After dinner we hit up wal-mart for some last minute cookie ingredients that I had left in Houston. Then we came home and...

I baked the best Snickerdoodles ever! Yes, they are even better than my past attempt at making them. Mmm, they were a lot fluffier and a lot less dough-ier if that makes sense. I wonder what I did differently? Maybe sifting the dry ingredients all the way through really DOES make a difference. Anyway this time I yielded a lot more because I knew how to manage/bake them better and I gave some to the guys at the pharmacy and am going to give some to birthday boy Kevin. Mm there's even soem left over for me and Bao to get even fatter on.

My snickerdoodles are getting popular. I already have a request for them from STEPHANIE! yay, that makes me feel baker -competent! Yes I will bake some for you Steph, whenever I have time to venture up to Dallas. Maybe I should ship some to you :)

Today I finally had my SPCA orientation and it was great! I really didn't want to go at first because it was at 9 in the morning, meaning I'd have to wake up at 8am just to get ready. But I dragged myself out of bed to shower and walked Tequila in the cold and now I am glad that I am. The 4 hour orientation passed by fast - it didn't even seem like 4 hours. The volunteer coordinators gave us a tour, lots of information, and a little hands-on training with 2 dogs. The only bad thing is that we can't play/walk the dogs as volunteers until we have our one-on-one, and the sheet came to me and Bao last so all the good spots were taken. We have to wait until Monday for an available spot..but I can't wait until I finish my one-on-one on Monday so I can finally REALLY volunteer. The dogs are so sweet and cute and just want to socialize there. I hope this volunteering won't make me adopt five new dogs, because Tequila would hate that.

Success!!!

I finished baking the cookies around 6pm and they were a big success! Except I should have used fine salt instead of coarse kosher salt, and I should have let them bake for a little longer than 10 minutes even though the recipe calls for 8-10 minutes.

I found the snickerdood recipe on allrecipes.com and it was REALLY super easy to do and the results came out great. I honestly can't cook a damn thing and I managed to make these cookies come out, so if you ever need a snickerdoodle recipe use that one!

Anyway, after baking the cookies I went to Bao's house and his older sister Netha had her puppy and baby Aiko over! The puppy, a rat terrier, was sooo tiny and only 2 months old. He kept playing with Tequila and Tequila kept putting her mouth over his entire neck (that's how small the puppy was!). Then the dog kept trying to suck Tequila's nipples for milk, lol! Tequila was unamused when he tried to do that.

Later we went to watch Rocky Balboa. It wasn't all that bad!! (and this is coming from a GIRL that likes to watch GIRLY movies) I just had to pee really bad but I didn't want to leave the theater because it was a small theater and to get out I would have to walk in front of people, and plus I didn't want to miss the final fight scene.

All in all, today was a good day. And tomorrow is my last day in Houston. Dimsum and party it up with our 3 handles of fine liquor.

1 bottle Patron..$45.00
1 bottle Grey Goose..$30.00
1 bottle of Malibu Rum..$15.00
6 cans of pineapple juice..$5.00
ice..1.00
Puking all night on my first new year's eve as 21 = PRICELESS.

I don't know if i'll go overboard because I have to drive back to Austin the next day.

Happy early new year's if I don't have time to update!

Cookie monster me am. COOKIE??!

I love eating cookies of all sorts but lately I've been wanting to bake them from scratch too. Nothing is better than biting into a scrumptious cookie that you made yourself from scratch! It just tastes that much better because you know you made it yourself.

A few days ago I tried baking cookies at Bao's following Alton Brown's damn recipe on food network.com and guess what? They were a disaster!! They were nasty and you could taste the sugar granules when you bit into them! The only part of the recipe I didn't follow was using a stand mixer. I used a hand electric mixer instead. I wonder if that really makes the difference. I wouldn't think so..

Anyway today I feel like baking cookies again. But I'm going to go with a recipe from allrecipes.com for Snickerdoodles (everyone loves those, right??) that actually has user reviews, so I know that I'll have somewhat a higher chance of getting these right.

By the way, for those of you that don't know me well, I suck at cooking. I never cook. I never bake things from scratch. My knowledge of making food is extremely limited because nobody taught me how to cook/bake/make food when I was younger. So this is all new to me. Wish me luck!