news and FFF

Either I write now or never (I will do another post with more details), do you remember this post?

Well it turns out now we DO have to move for the new job, and we are moving to a rural area in the montain :0 Yup far away from anything modern, working in a new hospital there (the people from the area are really happy to see us because no other doctors wanted to go that far), we decided to take it because it will be a new and fun experience :)

Like I said more details once we settle down there (moving is no fun :/ we'll be coming to the city every 2 weekends) and lets all pray they have wireless internet.

Here is my FFF picture of the week...

It was Bayo's bday and we had a Mexican Fiesta (this is an old pic,I used it for decoration at the party, I will share pics of the real bday later).

FFF- Favorite Guy!

This week's theme for FFF is actually your favorite picture of the week, we couldnt take any pics this week because our battery charger is broken and we are cheap enough to not buy regular ones until we get a new charger :p

But still I wanted to share my favorite guy EVERY WEEK, my gift from God :)

My tough cookie with a marshmallow heart :)

Happy!!

Here in DR, after you finish medicine, in order to get your exequatur (is the number that allows you to legally work on your career and give prescriptions) you have to work for 1 year for the goverment (public intership).
We've been trying to get in for a year, and after we came home from the test we went to the office in charge of giving you the intership daily, yes daily, because there is a lot of people on the waiting list!!
Well no more! today they finally located us in an intership and is near home, at first they told us that Bayo was being placed in a different town than me, but after practically begging the lady in charge, the secretary told us that since she still hasnt called all of the interns, that if someone rejected the offer she would try to locate us together, we were even considering moving to another town as long as we were together, well no need for that, because she called me this afternoon and said that we are going to the same place and is a town near ours so we dont have to move :)
I AM REALLY HAPPY!

I {HEART} Baking

If you love cookie dough and you love cupcake this is perfect for you :)

Today I baked Double Chocolate Chunk Vanilla Cupcakes, just writing the name makes me want to go grab another one, yum!

It is just your favorite cupcake and cookie recipe mix together, could there be anything better in the world? NOPE!

First you need to make some cookie dough, if you are scared about eating raw eggs use this eggless recipe, if like me you like to lick your bowl clean everytime you bake and really couldnt care less about salmonella just to have that wonderful taste in your mouth :) follow this one for Double Chocolate Chunk cookies (or your regular favorite one).

Make the dough into balls and freeze them (eat a few before you do that).

Now make vanilla cupcakes, and put the frozen cookie dough balls on top before baking, no need to push them down.

Bake the regular time your cupcake recipe requires.

ENJOY!!

FFF- Blooper!

This week's theme for FFF was really hard for me, because I hardly have any blooper pics of us :/ thanks to digital cameras I just erase all the pics I dont like, ha!

This one is from our honeymoon, for some reason I love it and didnt erase it :)

is all blured and Bayo's sunglasses are falling, but you can see how happy we were that day :)

FFF- Mommy!

Mother's day here in DR is the last sunday of this month, but I have some pictures of my mom for this week's FFF.

I couldnt choose just one picture :) so enjoy just a few of my favorite ones.I love this picture so much, she looks so beautiful!

Mommy and me :) I like the way that she is looking at me, you can see all the love in her eyes!

One of my favorite pics from our wedding, I will always treasure it!

I love you mom!

And Happy Mother's day to all the mommy readers!

Cheesecake Deco!!

If, like me, you have 0% art in you (because God decided it was better to throw all those good genes to your sister), and you want to decorate a cheesecake, FOLLOW ME!!

If you CAN make BEAUTIFUL creations with your food, just ignore the rest of the post, move on and lets pretend that this never happened!

So for the follower :) I did some cheesecakes two days ago and decided I'd try making it "pretty", I just used my always to go to cheesecake recipe, and did two normal size ones.

To make sure you can take your cake out of the pan without loosing its shape, just line the inside of your pie pan with some aluminium foil and it wont get stuck, it works great. For the first one I jut put some Cherry pie filling on top.

For the second one I went out of my comfort zone and decided to make the toping (jam), I bought some beautiful fresh strawberries :)

The recipe is really simple:

2 pounds fresh strawberries
4 cups white sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice

Crush strawberries until you have 4 cups of mashed berry. Mix together the strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice. Stir over low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Increase heat to high, and bring the mixture to a full boil. Boil, stirring often, until the mixture reaches a jam consistency.

I saved the top part (with the leaves), to use as deco, I also sliced a couple of them to use as deco too :)

This is how it turned out:Bayo though it was cute, not like he has a choice, lol, but some other people said the same, you can have a way better looking result than this one, so again, this is for the non artsy ones :)
You can also do the same for the Mini Cheesecakes, in my opinion they look even better!!

I {HEART} Baking

Why is it that everytime I bake something I have to do 2 at the same time, I am not happy just baking one thing :p

Today I made Peach Cobbler and it was the most good gooey thing ever, it tasted like pie, yummy!!!

Here is what to do it and have your house smelling like cinnamon heaven :)

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup AP flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp vanilla

2 tsp grounded cinnamon

1/2 tsp grounded nutmeg
1 cup milk
1 (29 ounce) can peaches

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Cream together sugar and butter, add vanilla. Mix in flour, salt, baking powder and milk until smooth. Pour peaches and their juice (add cinnamon and nutmeg to the juice) over the top.
Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until golden brown.

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream :)

I also made chocolate cookies, and this recipe is my forever keeper for chocolate cookies, they are so far the best ones and EVERYONE loved them, they were gone FAST!!!

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup baking cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
confectioners sugar

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. Roll into balls. Place 2 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with your hand a little. Bake at 350 degrees F for 6 minutes. Dust warm cookies with confectioners sugar.

ENJOY!!!!

FFF- Run!!

Back to the oldies again, because I couldnt find a new running picture for this week's FFF.

This was my 5th birthday and I was running with some goodies on my hand from the piñata, you can actually see some people in the back bending to take some, and the big smile is because that pink purse is FULL of candies ;)

You have to love the old ones, they bring back soooo many good memories :)