Adventures In Cooking #1

Every so often, I like to try out new recipes to flex my culinary muscles. So, as the holidays approach my work project has a little "cookie" exchange and contest for the best "cookie". I quote the cookies, because it's pretty much any candies, sweets, or other desserts. Last year was a complete disaster when I attempted to make fudge ... had no candy thermometer and the fudge never became hard because I missed the temperature for the "soft ball" stage. This year, I decided to a try a dry run with the new treat recipe ... very successful; the dry run received high praise.

The recipe included below was original based off this recipe. However after looking at several other truffle recipes (some just general truffle recipes), I knew that it just wasn't right. I knew that this recipe needed to be tweaked to make it work for me and the final product of my tweaks is included below.

おい！ (Oi!) [Hey!]

Welcome to マイライフ. マイライフ is pronounced Mai Raifu. マイライフ means "My Life" in Japanese; knowing this, you can figure out that this blog is going to be about me and my life. Now, I'm not going to talk about every little thing in my daily life (there will be some of course), but it is more of a look at all the things around me that collectively make up my life and my persona. This blog will probably get pretty random (and geeky) at times since my interests tend to range from things that are considered in the norm or mainstream to more exotic or niche items.

Hopefully, I'll get the blog setup to my liking soon. Still not totally happy with the appearance ... I'll class it up shortly ... hopefully. So while it's not perfect, I figured it was about time to get my first post up on this blog.

また後で！(Mata atode!) [See you later!]