The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) DID YOU KNOW? Both chocolate lava cake and peanut blossom cookies were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. Its not the holidays unless Sams Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage project detailing my maternal grandmothers Slovakian roots. Ive always liked cooking, and its actually really come in handy in college, since my dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 students. While I could survive on Annas Taqueria and get all the major food groups, its a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate hate hate the new food pyramid. The previous one may have had you eating like 60,000 calories a day, but at least it followed the basic principle of a pyramidlarger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied chemistry. Ha! Its really applied chemical engineering. At least, thats what I figure when I opened my hero Alton Browns first cookbook, Im Just Here For The Food and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer are conduction, convection, and radiationtopics that Id spent thirteen chapters of this textbook learning about in 10.302 last semester. Okay, so lets get right to the MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your high-school-age children! They will eat more healthily, get into MIT and become chemical engineers who blog and know Mitra. And now, a photography portfolio. Oh boy! Its a sour cream crust! Still on MIT time, Sams Mom and I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight. It wouldnt be a nut roll without 6 cups of walnuts. I chop the nuts in this cute little device. Then fold them into a meringue-type concoction. Note Hersheys Kisses and Utz potato chips, both symbolic of Central PA, in the background. Wheres the cream filling? Right here. While youre punching the cattle, Sams Mom is punching the dough. You put the nuts on the dough the nuts and then you feel better. It wouldnt be a nut roll without roll. Prior to 50 minutes of baking After 8 years of making nut rolls, were pretty goodonly one of them exploded in the oven. Luckily, we took a page from the book of lifestylist Sandra Lee and created a lovely tablescape to draw attention away from our exploded roll. Meet Silv, our large-headed dog. Okay, click. tomorrow: bowling!