Misadventures with Tori

Hello all!
Its been a while! We went to Chicago for MINIs take the States and have been super busy with work.
My kitchen is currently closed as the dishwasher is broken

While I wait, I’ve discovered a great new book site - PaperBackSwap that allows you to trade books with other readers out there. You list books you want to trade and can select others you’d like to read. Check it out- its a free service!
(If you do, please let them know thequeenofnebraska sent you!)

happy reading and cooking!

Tori 

Some of you may notice something new about this page… Its changed from a pink site about MINIs to a cooking blog.

No, your eyes do not decieve you… its really a cooking blog now! Please feel free to check back for cooking and MINI updates!

For those of you that were expecting a cooking blog, welcome to the new site!

Everything’s been going terribly wrong in my kitchen this week…. so I thought my blog needed a new name.

First there was the pork…. OH so tasty… but it was RED! (still not sure why.)

Then there were the snickerdoodles… Who knew that the margarine wouldnt substitute for butter and would make them REALLY runny? not me! (the WC girls did…. but they’ve got an abnormally high cooking IQ.)

Oh the Rootbeer Float cupcakes were the worst…. ugh.
First, I couldnt find the extract.
Then I didnt have the liners + baking powder. (idk where it ran off to!)
Then they overflowed b/c my cream of tarter didnt rise.
I followed the glaze’s directions… and it was WAY too sugary.
It wasnt a glaze.. more of a sugary frosting. (think cinnamon roll frosting.)

Needless to say… its been a BAD week in my kitchen. (LOL)
I’m still kicking and fighting though…. I hope it only gets better from here! :) 

well… kinda!

Our wedding (and my car accident - LOL) made Motor Trend!

For your laughing pleasure : the article!

Our friend Emily makes monsters for MINI folk to keep in their cars as co-pilots/companions. She just did an update and ours are on there!

Meet Juju and Karma
(relaxing in a bed of daisies and filler left over from our rehearsal dinner) 

She’s got more that need a good home…. email for adoption info!! (shameless plug for her!) 

From Em….

About 2 months ago I went to my friend Krystees’ house where I noticed some craft books on how to sew nifty little creatures. They were cool but I decided “Fuck that! I don’t need patterns!” so I had the brilliant idea to pick up sewing after not touching a sewing machine for about 13 years!!! Well this is what happened. I made some little monsters from the depths of my brain and put them on a website I belong to. Originally there were 23. I didn’t even know if people would like them…well in about 3 days they were all gone!!! I am now nearing 100 of these little guys.

I wanted to offer them to the rest of my friends. They are $25 each (standard shipping is free,for priority please add $4.80), I accept paypal to emilymartian13@earthlink.net.

If you would like to be put on the list please send me a message or paypal (payment puts you higher on the list). Please include any special requests or suggestion (i.e. colors, number of eyes, etc…but don’t go to crazy).

As of right now I have about a month turn around time (time may very due to amount of people on the list)

Here are some examples…you can find more that have been adopted in my Monster Adoption folder.

Thanks for looking
Emily “StoopidGirl” Martian
http://www. rogueminis. com

Karen over at LovestoEat , tagged me, and now I’m “it.” (Make sure you check out her blog)

1. Why did you start your blog?DH bought me a website a while ago… and I would randomly blog things as I found em. I just deleted it all and started it over as a cooking blog so I could participate more on the What’s Cooking board.

2. How did you come up with your blog name? blog.websitename.com - VERY creative… i know.

3. Do your friends and family know about your blog, and what do they think? Nope… Its only been up since Sunday… so I’m slowly telling friends as I talk to them.

4. How do you write posts? as I think of them.

5. Have you ever had a troll or had to delete unkind comments? nope!

6. Do you check your stats or care how many people read your blog? If you care, how do you increase traffic?Yes- I love to know people are actually reading what I put out there!

I wonder who I should tag? Let me find a ton of new ones… I’m going to tag some of my favorite WC nesties!

the lovely TPOX of tacobake : Proceed with Caution

baking blonde that makes my thighs grow with each lovely entry : Baking Blonde

katie of the amazing scones : Good Things Catered 

I’m going to attempt to learn to cook with the help of the lovely ladies of the Nest’s What’s Cooking board.

Wish my DH luck- he’ll need it! (and an iron stomach!)