Milkshakes True Identity

Everything started in 1885, when milkshake used to have whisky, it also had milk powder, barley and wheat flour, and it was first invented by William Horlick in 1887. At first it was made for the children and the invalids, but that one had eggnog, but was pretty much the one we now know. It was a good start, latter on in 1992, a Walgreens employee in Chicago, named Ivar "Pop" Coulson, took a malted milk, which back then used to be milk, chocolate, and malt, and he added ice cream, (two scoops to be exact) and it became so popular so fast that it became a very demanding drink between the young adults everywhere! Who would have ever imagined a Walgreens employee could become so famous and loved for having added two scoops of ice cream to a milkshake! I would have never imagined it from someone like him.

Milkshake Recipe

Milkshake is actually very easy to do… and so good :), and it’s so fast you could do it everyday for breakfast!! Did I mention it’s delicious? Cause it is… and you can pretty much add whatever you want, there is for everyone’s likes and dislikes, (hopefully not dislikes though, I hate having to eat something that’s not tasty or has a very weird texture, or the way they made it…) anyways, the important thing about this recipe is that you can put any of the options that are about to be mentioned, or you can just add whatever you feel like dumping in there, or in other cases whatever you find first in your fridge. Just in case, be careful to not add something really random that you will probably regret when you are about to drink the milkshake and see it a weird gross greenish thing floating in there.
If you do this for breakfast, make sure to be awake and actually knowing what you are doing. Today I was sleepy and kind of slow. I spilled some milk… haha, mom got mad, but I at least that helped me wake up…

Ingredients:

2 cups of milk
(This is the part I was telling you about a while ago… you can choose to add ONE of these… or whatever you feel like doing, but make sure to have fun!)
½ mashed banana
2 tablespoons orange juice
¼ cup chocolate mix
1 tablespoon melted jelly
½ teaspoon flavoring
Or other mashed fruit
Sugar (you decide, it’s up to you, but I recommend 2 to 4 tablespoons)

Prepare:

Add milk, a “flavor” or what you chose to add, sugar.
Shake or beat until blended.
Serve and enjoy! (2 serving)

It’s extremely easy to make, so if unlike me, you have enough energy to make one every day for breakfast, do so! There are plenty of things you can add to vary every time you feel like enjoying one! It you ever add something and think it just tastes like heaven, be sure to comment on this recipe so we can all enjoy your amazing imagination and cooking abilities!

Apple Pies… Since that time around?!

Apples pies or tarts were actually around here since the Middle Ages! Isn’t that just so cool? Before, they weren’t exactly like we know them, they didn’t have sugar and they weren’t really meant to be eaten. You must be wondering why they did them anyways, but don’t worry. Back then, like around 1381, they didn’t have that much sugar and the one they and was extremely expensive, but some cooks of King Richard II, presented it to Queen Elizabeth, latter on, and that was the first officially known apple pie. So to make the long story short, apple pie used to be much different to what we know, but through the decades, we have been able to have the wonderful and delicious combination on apples, sugar and flour that we all love.

Chocolate Chip Cookies... a mistake?!

Who would have ever imagined that chocolate chip cookies were a mistake? Near Whitman Massachusetts, Ruth Wakefield used to do butter cookies for her guests in 1937. One day she decided to add a piece of semi-sweet chocolate and see what happened and how they reacted. To her surprise, they loved it! And she had to publish the recipes in the newspaper, they became very popular.
That, I think is just awesome! Who would have ever imagined something so good and famous would have just happened by adding an innocent, yet the most delicious sweet thing ever… chocolate!?
Thanks Ruth Wakefield, I really don’t know what I would do without chocolate chip cookies…

Last minute changes!!

I have deiced to change something’s in this blog. I have realized it is much harder to post “life” recipes than what I had expected. As I said on my first post, it does have to do with all of us, but we all have our life to live and we are free to decide how to that. It is nice when they give you tips or ideas once in a while, but I don’t consider myself the expert of living the best life or anything like that, I am still trying to live mine. So there will be some changes about those recipes. Now, instead of having those life things there will be some background information on the recipes! Have you ever wonder who came up with chocolate chip cookies or how long ago have apple pies been around? Well I have, and I decided I should share those answers with you. We might have life as something in common, but we also have queries or questions we share, so come back soon to find more delicious, easy and fun to make recipes, but also to learn more about food mysteries!
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Apple Pie!

Pies are delicious, and are good for you! They have a very nutritious fruit. Apples!

Ingredients

¼ pound of butter
2 teaspoons of sugar
A pinch of salt
1 tablespoon of baking powder
2 tablespoons of milk
1 ½ cups of wheat flour
2 eggs
4 or 5 red apples
Brown sugar
Powder cinnamon

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Blend butter and sugar until gets creamy.
Add flower little by little, eggs, salt, milk and baking powder. Mix well until dough doesn’t stick to your hands.
Divide dough in two equal halves and roll one of the balls to form the pie crust and put it in the pie pan, previously buttered and floured.
Peel apples and take off cores. Cut them in slides and set them over the base.
Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon. Then repeat the process until there are no apples left.
Put pieces of butter and cover with the rest of the dough (second half) making sure everything is covered.
With a fork, poke softly over top and take to oven for 30 or 35 minutes.

1st Recipe! Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Chocolate Chip Cookies are very common and well known, but they are simple, easy, fun and DELICIOUS!

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup dark sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups chocolate chips

Preparation:

1. Blend butter with sugars. Add eggs and vanilla.
2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and chocolate chips.
3. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto baking sheet.
4. Bake 18 minutes at 300 F.

As you can see it´s really fast to make, so don´t hesitate and run do your own!
Go watch your favorite T.V show while you enjoy some just-made cookies and milk! :)

HEY!

I am Melisa. I like to cook and I love all the many different flavors that exist. How awesome is it that every single thing has a unique texture, color, smell, etc? When I created this blog I decided it should have something everyone can be familiar with and I decided that should be life.

So that’s what you will find here! Recipes; that are not only to cook delicious and simple, (but fun to make) desserts, salads and much more, but also some short and but very important life lessons, or how I like to call them recipes, that will hopefully help.

Hope you learn and enjoy! :)