Dog Cookies

   

    This time of year I tend to go through a lot of butter, like Julia Child amounts of butter but the other day I baked a dish that was in fact butter-less. It is a hard biscuit made of wheat flour, pumpkin and peanut butter, healthy. Plus I made up a frosting for it using ricotta cheese (because I didn't have cream cheese) and peanut butter with a bit of honey. The ending result some something like a dog treat!

Recipe for cookie:

2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees
2. Using a wooden spoon, mix together all ingredients in a bowl. The dough will be dry and using your hands is unavoidable. Add a bit of water if you need.  Roll into a 1/2 inch thick sheet and cut out shapes. Place on a baking stone or cookie sheet. 
3. Bake until hard, about 35 minutes. 

Recipe for doggy frosting:

1/2 cup cream cheese or ricotta
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1 tablespoon honey

   Mix all ingredients together and frost. It will crack if it dries, I like it, you may not.

German style

Red cabbage, sauteed golden apples and brats with mash potatoes and mustard reduction.

Homemade Make-up Setter/ Mixing Medium.

   I have heard of setting sprays made by high end make up lines, I myself have never invested in one. I knew that if I tried it, I would like and have to buy it over and over again as it is something that I have heard nothing but good things about.

Retails for $19.00

Retails for $29.00

   You can use setting sprays to moisturize your skin, set your make up, and add some shine to your hair. If you look cakey with too much face powder you can use this product to make it melt into your skin. It is great in the summer months because it prevents your make up from moving or if you are one of those girls who wears makeup to the gym. If your foundation dries before you buff into your skin all the way, you can spray it on your brush and then finish applying the make up. Pretty much everything and anything.
   Now lots of companies also make a mixing medium, sold with your pigment eye shadows so that the loose powder doesn't fall on your face. Mixing medium is also very versatile in its uses. The funny part is that its the very same thing as finishing spray just in different packaging... damn!
   Now the really funny part (the not so funny but more the part that is going to piss you off) about all of this is that finishing spray and mixing medium are both nothing more than glycerin and water. That's right sugar water! $&*%*$*@$!!! Sorry...

   Recipe

• 1 part pure glycerin (You can find it in the facial care, pharmacy, cooking, or even craft stores) 
• 3 parts Filtered water (not sure where to find that...) 
• Something to put it in (spray bottle is the best idea I can come up with)

   All you do is mix 1/4 glycerin to 3/4 water inside a spray bottle and use. That would be if you have combination skin. If you have oily skin try 1/5 glycerin to 4/5 water and if you have dry skin try using 1/3 part glycerin to 2/3 parts water.
    If you have redness in your skin you can add 1 part rose water, that will also give it a nice rose smell. I like to put one part witch hazel in mine personally because it makes it feel less sticky. If the stickiness is still a problem for you, try just a little rubbing alcohol.   

   Glycerin is also used in cooking, many beauty products and medicines. Its a lubricant, moisturizer, and heals burns, its also good for colds. 

I hope you enjoyed this, I know that I did, I am so happy to know that I could make a gallon of this stuff for under $5 bucks! SWEET!

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I Give Up.

   You can get just about anything delivered in Abu Dhabi. Your laundry, groceries, and of course, food. Delivery is really offered anywhere and everywhere. All you have to do is call them up and place your order. The problem that I face however, is language barriers.
   Ryan is gone most of the day and usually gets home right before things close so getting meals delivered from outside the hotel just makes sense. Apparently no one in any of Abu Dhabi's restaurants has any idea where the Intercontinental is? It's the huge building with the giant "I" on it.

   Oh yeah, that one. I have tried a couple times to call for delivery, I usually just give up after about five minutes of asking for them to repeat what they just said and end up hanging up. I figure that there is absolutely no way that they are going to get my order right even if they do manage to make it to the right place.
   Lately I have been seeing this advertisement for a one delicious looking food thing in a box, I didn't know what it was because I had only seen it will driving past it at night, plus its in Arabic. While watching tv I saw it in a commercial for PizzaHut!

   It's called the Mighty Variety and it serves 6, so way too big but I still wanted it! Ryan could take the left overs to work and I could get supreme and he can get whatever it is he likes. We tried to go to pizza hut after he was off of work and it was closed. What pizza place closes at 2AM? So if I wanted it I would have to make the call.
   The plan was made, we knew what we wanted and I had the hotels address, phone number and money. I called and the guy asked for my area code, shit. This is the hotels phone number +971 2 666 6888, please, if you can pick out the area code, HELP ME because its not 971... The guy got so frustrated with me that HE hung up!
   The pizza guy hung up on me because I could not understand him. All I wanted for the Fourth of July was a freaking pizza and he hung up. My country freaking invented that pizza!
   I guess I will go and get chicken shawarma. It's a local dish, kind of a like a gyro, but made of chicken and served with fresh mint leaves and hummas.