Crockpot Pulled Pork and Boston Cream Poke Cake

Both of these recipes are from Pinterest.

The first one is barbecue pulled pork in a crockpot.

Get a pork butt and stick it in the crockpot...

 Cover with a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays and a can of Diet Pepsi...

 Also add some Lawry's Seasoned Salt and cook for 4 hours...

This recipe sucks!! The pork didn't pull apart hardly at all...major pain in the butt and not worth it.

I would try to cook it longer with more marinades if I were to do this again, because as you can see in the last picture it just stews in juices, not barbecue sauce, as it should.

 Next is the Boston cream poke cake.

Get a box of yellow cake mix, bake it and then poke round holes all over...

 Make 2 boxes of vanilla pudding and pour it over just before it starts to thicken...

I must've waited a minute too long, because it was pretty thick when I poured it...it didn't really go down into the holes, so I would pour it as soon as I'm done stirring next time.

 Microwave a tub of chocolate frosting so it gets melty and smooth it over the top. Unfortunately since the pudding was all sitting on top, the frosting all sat on top of the pudding...

 A pic of a piece. This was freaking delicious even though the pudding didn't go down into the holes much. It is super moist and I was eating it for days, I kept this one all to myself.

Art, books and plants

This first picture is another process picture of the last painting I'm doing for my mom. It still has one more layer to go, which I still haven't done yet. It will look much different when it is finished.

 More of the process of this hidden transformation...

 This is the next book I finished. I taught this in group and got it from my former team leader, Bob. This is a description of the 16 personality types from the Myers-Briggs Personality Test that I gave my clients. It goes into all aspects of each personality and the description for my personality type (INFJ) was really true!

 Flowers finally blooming...these are forget-me-knots I believe...

 Tomato plant shooting up...

 The next book I finished. An autobiography of George Harrison. The book is split into 3 sections. The first is a narrative about many behind-the-scenes moments in Beatle history. The second section is a ton of candid pictures...which had some missing since I got it at a library book sale, and someone had cut out a chunk of pics...grrr. And the third section is actual scanned copies of ALL of the songs George Harrison wrote. You can see that he wrote a lot of songs on hotel stationary and can see where he was staying on certain dates. He also writes on the opposite page about what the inspiration was for each song.

 Another process picture...

 And the next book I read. I have possibly hundreds of Dean Koontz books and I read all of them in high school along with some Steven King. I got this one at a library book sale. I finished it in a week and it reminded me why I read Dean Koontz so much. It is one of his typical thriller-mysteries set on the west coast...and deals with medical experiments. The creepy part about all of his books is that this type of medical research is actually happening in the world right now! I'm serious people! This is why I want to do research so badly!

Many more exciting book reviews to come!!!

Dark Chocolate Cookies and Spider Bites

This recipe is from Pinterest and does not contain most of the usual ingredients for cookies.

 Egg whites....

 Melted dark chocolate...

 Add something I'm not sure...

 With some cocoa, cornstarch and powdered sugar...

 And that makes the batter...no flour or regualar sugar??!!

 Then pour the melted chocolate over it....

 And mix it all up...

 Roll in more powdered sugar to bake...

 Done.

 These were really good, but are better when they are warm and melty right out of the oven. Once they cool, all the dark chocolate makes them bitter.

 And here is a pic of the 2 spider bites I got while camping. I don't know when I got bit and they didn't itch for 24 hours. I just woke up with one and later in the day saw the other one.

 They would not go away and are still slowly fading today. But you're supposed to make a baking soda paste and put it on. This helped the itching stop faster and made the redness go away faster...although you can't move much while it's on or it will flake off.