Biggie Handmade Goods » food http://thebiggie.com Biggie Handmade Goods Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:34:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Railsplitter http://thebiggie.com/2009/03/18/the-railsplitter/ http://thebiggie.com/2009/03/18/the-railsplitter/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:13 +0000 biggie http://thebiggie.com/blog/?p=84 The beermaking adventure is complete (for now)!  I gave Chris a homebrew kit for Christmas and when enough bottles were collected, we got started brewing.  This past weekend they were ready for drinking, so we cracked open our wheat beers we dubbed The Railsplitter.

The Railsplitter by you.

We started making the beer on Lincoln’s birthday, hence the name The Railsplitter.  The text below the image states: ‘Please Enjoy This Tall Sucker – Brewed and Bottled at C+B Ranch.’  Back in the Lincoln days, a person from Illinois was referred to as a sucker… not really what it means today!

The very first step in the process was to boil the malt extract (and hops).  I gotta say, it stunk up the whole house! About a week later, we bottled and capped the suckers, then they sat for a month.

Now it’s beer!

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red velvet by you.

I made a batch of red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.  Yeah, I know cream cheese is not the traditional frosting for red velvet, but I just had to break the rules.

red velvet by you.

My cupcake army…

sugar cookies by you.

sugar cookies by you.

I also made  heart shaped sugar cookies….most were iced, but left some to be topped with the cream cheese frosting.

sugar cookies by you.

Some homemade pizza followed…and I was exhausted.  I think it will be quiet in the kitchen next weekend…but I make no guarantees.

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homemade PB cups by you.

Here’s some homemade PB cups I made last night.  They were a bit of work (with the tempering and all), but I think they turned out.

homemade PB cups by you.

So get over here and help me eat them.

OOooooooOOOOoooooOooooOOOOO! (that’s my scary ghost sound)

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Anyways, this past weekend I made the cuuuuutest pies in the world.  Mini apple pies!  They’re baked in small half pint mason jars and make a decent sized single serving.

They just need a pat of butter on top and their lids…

Here they are right before I popped a couple in the oven…the rest went in the freezer.  I only have a couple left since I gave some away, so I should have made more :(   But they were so good!

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