Something Saturdays (9/29/12)

This was a good week around here. I shared with you guys 3 of my most favoritest recipes, my tv shows are coming back, aaaand:

Look at all these goodies!! When I won the giveaway from Recipe Renovator, for some reason I was just expecting the Joy the Baker coobook-you can imagine my excitement when I found all of this!! Looks like I need to make some cupcakes ASAP!! :D

I also won a $50 gift card for Bob's Red Mill from The Lemon Bowl. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH STUFF I CAN BUY WITH THAT??!! LIKE A LOT! Sooooooo exciiiited!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

AHHHH! OMG OMG OMG OMG!

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT HAS TAKEN THIS LONG FOR ME TO SHARE THIS!

I'm a bad blogger. And a bad friend.

Because you NEED these in your life, A-to the-SAP!

One of life's biggest questions-cookie dough or cookies?

Personally...I love both. And try to keep a healthy balance of both in my life. But no matter what...I feel a little cheated. When I'm making cookies and eat a bunch of dough, I'm then upset that I will have less cookies. But when I decide to only have a teensy bit of the dough, I lament the loss of the delicious dough that got away. With these, you will not have such problems. You get the best of both worlds!

Cookie: Firm, cooked exterior. Warm and melty chocolate chips.

+ Dough: Dough flavor and texture in the center.

 = HYBRID: A warm, gooey, cookie dough/cookie marriage made in heaven!

I'm serious, I love these. So much so that, after making them for the first time, I immediately made another batch. Addictive as hell! And, AND you can just have a bunch of these little frozen dough balls in the freezer, waiting around, chillin' out (HA! Pun INTENDED!), and when you decide you need some good cookie/cookie dough lovin', you pop em in the oven. Bake em for just a tiny while then IT'S COOKIE DOUGH BALL TIME! *happy dance*

Brown Butter Macaroni and Cheese

Ok. I know. I'm obsessed.

You've seen so many recipes with browned butter from me. But what can I say? It makes everything tastes so amazing! Extra buttery and just so...just...you know? Adding the wonderousness that is browned butter can only elevate everything to the next level-and that is exactly what has happened with this macaroni and cheese.

You brown the butter. You add flour and milk and cheeses to form a delicious roux (I think that's the word? Cheese sauce. It's essentially cheese sauce). You add it to your macaroni (or other noodles, whatever. I particularly like to use extra healthy noodles here, since the flavor of the sauce is so strong it helps mask anything I would maybe not love in the pasta if it were plain). Put some buttery cracker goodness on there. Bake/broil it up a bit and KAZAAM*! Delicious mac'n'cheese! I kinda wanna make some now. Food blogging makes you hungry-fact.

*Do you guys remember Kazaam? It had Shaq as a genie who like...rapped and acted ridiculous? Anyone? Did you love it even though you knew it was absolutely a train wreck? ME TOO! I'm pretty sure the only reason I ever knew anything about basketball was thanks to Kazaam and Space Jam. I was all "Oh yeah, I know who Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan are. No big." But I digress. (You guys...I still have that movie! I know! Let's watch it! Buahahaaaa!)