Testing this new recipe that I invent

I still have a lot of apples from the apple orchard. I was trying to figure out what to use. Since it is still Fall in here Kentucky. But Thanksgiving is coming up soon and after that, it will become winter and Christmas is coming soon. I cannot believe that the time had gone fast when I am so busy with two jobs that I love. So I thought of this recipe that I want to try out. It is simple name, it is called Pumpkin Apple Chocolate Chip cookie. It is quite delicious. Here is the recipe that you might want to try it out.

Pumpkin Apple Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar (dark is fine)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup canned puree pumpkin
- 3 cups All purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 large or 2 small apples, peeled, cored, and small diced
(If you don't have all of the spices, you can use ground all spice for 1 tsp or pumpkin pie spice for 2 tsp)

Direction
1. Heat oven to 350 F degree
2. In a mixer bowl, beat the butter with granulated sugar and brown sugar together with mixer until mixture is fluffy. Add egg one at a time and mix in with vanilla and pumpkin until it is well blended.
3. In other bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
4. Slowly beat the flour mixture until the batter in thirds until well blend. Then stir in with chocolate chips and apples together. Scoop 1 TBSP of cookie dough onto the well greased baking sheet or cookie sheet.
5. Bake for 15 min to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

The Amazing Fall Dessert

I am still here and blogging about the food and sharing my recipes with you. I am still busy with work. So just be patient with me. 

This amazing Fall dessert is so easy and simple. You will love this one. 

My brother, my future sister in law and I went to the farm where they had pumpkin patch and apple orchards and many fun things there. It was my first time going to the pumpkin patch and pick out the pumpkin. I really love it. Then we did our first time picking the apples from the orchard. I was so exciting to eat those natural apples from the orchard than to buy from the store. 

I was tried to figure out what to use them. I sometime don't have time to eat them due to my work or I kept forget it. So I found this recipe that is called Dark and Stormy Apple Crisp. It is contain with dark rum. I thought I could make some. However, I don't have the rum in the house. Since I live in Kentucky, there is a lot of bourbon. So I decided to try to use it. Guess what, it came out amazing. Here is the recipe that I want to share with you. It is amazing. 

I could called it Bourbon Apple Crisp or other name, I can't think of one. You could help me out with one. 

Ingredient

- 5 Apples (Granny could be best)

- 1 lime, zested and juiced (bottle lime is fine)

- 1 1/2 TBSP freshly grated ginger (Ground ginger is fine but use less, I recommond 3 tsp)

- 1/3 cup Rum (Bourbon is fine but think to match the flavor of apple)

- 3/4 cup granulated sugar

- 1 cup All-purpose flour

- 1 cup quick-cooking oats

- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar (light is fine)

- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

Direction

1. Peel, core, and slice five apples, then add into a large bowl. Add lime juice and zest, grated ginger, rum, and granulated sugar, and mix thoroughly until apples are coated

2. For crumble, Stir together flour, oats, and brown sugars. Melt the butter in microwave or stove. Then pour into the flour mixture and stir until combined

3. Pour the apples into the greased 13 x 9 inch pan or smaller which is fine. Then pour the crumbles on the top of the apples to cover it. Bake at 350 Fdegree until crisp is golden and apples are softened, about 45 minutes. 

So Easy!

You'll love this cupcake

You'll love this cupcake...why?

Because it is so simple and easy and it won't take a lot of your time. I created this cupcake called Cola Coke Cupcake with Salted Peanut Butter frosting. Is it sound complex? NO, it is not. I am sharing this recipe with you. You will love it.

I make this for my future sister-in-law. It was my first birthday cupcake that I made for her. I hope she will enjoy it.

Here it is...

Cola Coke Cupcake

- Devil's Food cake mix
- 12 oz Cola Coke



1. Combine the cake mix with coke and stir together until well-blend.
2. Preheat oven to 350 F degree, according to the package direction for how long.
(You can use just cake pan too.)



Salted Peanut Butter Frosting

- Creamy Peanut Butter
- Vanilla Frosting
- Chocolate sprinkle
- Sea salt

1. Combine the Peanut butter and vanilla frosting
2. Put on top of cupcake with knife or pastry bag if you have one. (Only put on when it is completely cooled)
2. Sprinkle the Chocolate sprinkle and dash of sea salt on top of frosting (You don't have to add those sprinkle but it will taste great)


So simple and easy to do.

Enjoy!

Speaking of the Devil

I was such in mood to make something sweet that I haven't made for long time. I mean every after dinner, I am always craving for something sweet. That's the way I am. I have this huge sweet tooth that I cannot help it at all.

So now, I am in mood to make cookies and I did. I called this Devil's cookie. Because few years ago, I was making really good chocolate cookie with chocolate chips. I was just made it in order to save me money so that I can eat one every after dinner. But my sister really want one and she ended up called me Devil because I always make really good cookies.

So I am here to share my recipe with you.

Devil's cookie

- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 TBSP vanilla extract
- 2 cups All-purpose flours
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
(Optional, you can replaced chocolate chip with nuts)

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degree
2. Beat the butter and sugar until cream and well-blend. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well as not over mix. In other bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt, whisk all together well. Then add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture by hand until blend well. Then fold in the chocolate chips until well blend.
3. Put heap of Tablespoon onto the cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 17 minutes or until it is your prefer type of cookie. Try not to burn them.

Enjoy!

Sharing my journey...

I can't believe it is been four weeks since I moved out of Utah and move in Kentucky. I never thought of this and it is so surreal to me. But I ended up love it and made the right decision. I do not regret this for anything in the world. I have decided to share my story with you upon my adventure from Utah to Kentucky.

March 27th -
    After work, I went to pick up the rental truck with dolly. First, I rented the dolly with two wheels because it was cheaper than the four wheels dolly. But when I arrived to pick up the truck. They don't have the two wheels dolly and only have four wheels dolly with same price that I reserved. I was so happy about that because it is more safe for my car. Then I ended up first time drive the truck with dolly. I was so scared but I did it alright. Then after dinner, I moved almost all of the boxes into the truck from 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm in the dark. I was totally worn out and I had to go to work on the next day with my arms so sore.

March 28th -
   Again after work, I went back to the house for one last time to see it and finish up moving all of the stuffs. Then my car was put on the dolly. I ended up rent a car for my safety reason. So I left my car on the dolly for almost a week. Then I moved up to Heber City which is literally in the mountain. I was helping my sister and she helped me too. My sister was moving in her new house so I am staying with her for few days until I am finish with my work.

Last time to see Mountain in Utah

March 31st -
   My last day of work was bitter sweet. I do enjoyed working there and I have learned a lot. Then I went to meet my dad at the airport which it was only 10 minutes of walking. So much easy. Then my sister picked us up and went home.

That's what we did drive with this truck

April 1st -
   I packed up few more into the car and the truck. I had to take out some of things from my car because of the heat. Then we were ready to leave. I took Marshall with me to start the journey to Kentucky. We left around 7 am and start on the journey. Marshall did not like the ride at all so it took few hours for him to get use to it. We started to drive on I-80 to go to Wyoming. It was not bad at the beginning but once we passed Green River, WY. It did got little worse because of the winds. The winds were blowing at 35 mph. It took forever to get out of Wyoming. It took us 8 hours. We finally entered Nebraska and it was still windy. We were supposed to continue to drive to Lincoln, NB but it is not going to happen because of this huge storm is coming. We decided to stopped in Kearney, NB. We tried to find a hotel that would accept the cat and it was not that easy. Most of the hotel only accept dogs. Finally, my dad did beg one of the hotel as just for one night. So we got the room and spend the night.

Marshall didn't not like the ride

Marshall started to like the ride

April 2nd -
   We got up so early because we were planned to leave around 7 am to get on the road again. The weather was much better than yesterday. We continued to drive. Marshall had quite become more comfortable than yesterday. He mostly spend his time sleeping in his bed. We continued to drive and then finally arrived in Kentucky around 10 pm. It was the longest drive. We had to make a lot of stops because the truck doesn't have cruise control so it is a lot harder to drive without one. You can try it.

The Fort in Kearney, NB

April 3rd -
   I finally moved in with my Brother in his new house.

That's all of my journey from Utah to Kentucky. It was the biggest move I never done with all of my things. I know that I did move from Colorado to New York for college but it wasn't everything. It was just my personal things. But this one, is everything from bed to etc.

I do not regret to move to Kentucky. It is always the best things to start new life and going for a change.

I will have my next blog to go back to foodie. I do miss it. Just keep eye on it.

Starting New Chapter is Always Best Thing

I know it had been long time since I have post on this blog. I know that you might want to know of any new recipes or the recipes that I test out and want to share with everyone. But things had changed when the new year began.

In December 2014, when my mom told me that she is going to move to Texas in January 2015. That moment, I knew that I will have to move to somewhere else and chose not to move to Texas with her. I thought of Colorado as how much I want to move back because of my friends live there. So I started to apply for jobs there which is the hardest part. Then I already bought the plane ticket, rent a car, stay at my friend's house for two days, and then reserve the hotel room. I had everything set in plan.

First week of January 2015, I flew to Denver to do the job interview. The only thing is that I had two job interviews there and I did call and apply few places but I had no luck. Also I did meet some roommate that I was plan to live. However, when I drove in Denver to get the feeling. You  know the feeling that where you should be. I did not get any feeling when I drove around in Denver as to get to know. I had second thought that I should not be in Colorado for a while. I came back to Utah with little disappointment but didn't give up yet. I had to go back and regroup to figure out the plans.

But a week later, my brother had offer me a place to stay. ONE thing, my brother live in Kentucky which is pretty far away. I had to come to make the tough decision. I do really want to move to Colorado so badly but when I visited there. I didn't have any good support system there. I felt that I was pretty much lonely there. But at the same time, I am starting new life in Kentucky and meeting new people which I am not that type of person to meet new people. Since I am very introvert. I wrote down the pro and con to make the decision. I made the decision to move to Kentucky as not moving to Colorado. I felt the timing was not right.

I started to apply the jobs in Kentucky. I did get more calls than I excepted. I did apply jobs in Colorado and I didn't get a lot of call from them that much as I get from Kentucky. Then I had tough decision was to quit my job and go ahead to move to Kentucky with no jobs. But I ended up ask my dad to see if he can buy me a flight ticket for me to get interview and hope to get a job. My dad did ended up bought the ticket for me. I did flew to Kentucky for fours days. I had two interviews per day which is six interviews, which it was good. I did drive around in Louisville and some in Lexington, Kentucky. That point it hit me that I knew this is the place where I should be. I felt more comfortable to live in Kentucky. I do remember that I always want to live in Kentucky but never in right time. Now it is the right time to live and be much closer to my Dad and my brother.

I know myself that I will be moving to Kentucky with no jobs, but I do have faith in myself that I will get job soon once I live in Kentucky which it could be much easier. Wish me luck for this journey. Keep eye for more blogs when I am settle down.

My favorite view in Kentucky while I was driving...