Frankenstein Knuckles

For the Halloween season I decided to make some chocolate covered pretzel sticks look like fingers of Frankenstein, like this:

Found on Pinterest

I melted some white chocolate, then added some food coloring to make it white. 

Side note: regular food coloring makes white chocolate seize up.

Side note 2: Seized up chocolate does not stick to pretzels very well.

After I noticed the chocolate had seized, I came up with the excuse that the hot bowl it was in was just over cooking it.

I took out more white chocolate, melted that, then proceeded to add food coloring in a bowl that was not nearly as warm.

The result:

This is when I found out that the food coloring was the problem.

After a lot of practice, I was able to spread the white chocolate onto the pretzel sticks like a very hard-to-work-with peanut butter. 

Even though the chocolate seized up, it still tasted delicious.

After I was finished, I tried adding some milk to the leftover chocolate to see if it would un-seize it.

It just made the chocolate oily and weird.

Sleeping

Today I learned David sleeps with one eye a little bit open.

Cornbread Muffins

I've made cornbread muffins a few times, and I think they are delicious. I was quickly trying to finish dinner the other day because the missionaries were coming over to eat and we were running late. The recipe called for the normal ingredients: corn meal, flour, sugar, melted butter, etc.

When they came out of the oven, they hadn't risen as much as they normally do, and they didn't look as yellow as they usually do. But whatever, maybe I just remembered wrong.

After I ate one, I noticed they were definitely more dense than the last time I made them. It must be because I had only made them in Utah, which is at a higher altitude and much drier climate than San Diego.

Yeah. That must be it.

Dinner goes fine. Nobody mentions anything about the muffins.

The next morning, I go to heat up some oatmeal in the microwave and... what? Why is there a bowl in the microwave? I pull it out and look inside the bowl.

WHAT?

HERE IS THE PARTIALLY MELTED (and re-solidified) BUTTER THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO IN THE MUFFINS!

And suddenly it all made sense.