September 2013 – Page 3 – Tina's Chic Corner

Chocolate Tort

September 8th, 2013Tina18 Comments

My husband is great at reading me, sometimes scarily so because he might know something about me before I even know it. When my husband and I eat out for dinner and order dessert, he knows that I will pick a chocolate dessert, not like that takes much of his skills to know. I always gravitate to my precious chocolate desserts so if you know me even a little then you know sorbet will be my last choice. Let’s face it, if I’m spending calories on dessert I’m going to go for something I know I’ll love. This chocolate tort …

Sweet and Sour Chicken

September 6th, 2013Tina16 Comments

From time to time it comes up that I just don’t want to cook dinner (and even the lazy dinner secret of a bowl of cereal won’t do) my husband and I tend to order Chinese take out food. It is possible to have it be healthy, and out in the sticks it’s one of the only easy choices. Sweet and sour chicken is a classic dish on virtually all Chinese take out menus. Today, I took this classic dish and made a version that doesn’t require any frying, breading, or driving! Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe (About 4 servings) …

Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

September 4th, 2013Tina38 Comments

100th post! Holy cow, right!? 😀 I’m on this kick of making huge cookies. I blame The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie that I made recently and of course my husband who has a near religious problem with little cookies. 😉 I’ve made Traditional Sugar Cookies before. You know, the ones where you roll out the cookie dough and cut out fun shapes. I love those and while they are “easy” to make, they are quite time consuming and I have to be in the mood for that process. These still take a while to make thanks to chilling …

New Look

September 2nd, 2013Tina14 Comments

Do you ever feel like you need a change? I am approaching my 100th post and I thought what better way to mark the occasion by making some updates to my blog. Here’s what’s new: I’m on Twitter now! I know…why’d it take you so long? At the top right of the blog, you can now follow me on Twitter. 🙂 You can now subscribe to get emailed when a new post is published. Stay in the loop in another fun new way. 🙂 I have some featured posts at the top of my blog, instead …

Kitchen Organization

September 1st, 2013Tina10 Comments

As a neat freak I have a tendency to want to organize things. I really enjoy organizing things, a lot. Yea, I’m not sure if that’s weird or not, but whatever. When I started writing this post, my husband told me our kitchen is neat, but not organized. What?! Well, it seems this appears to be subjective. I can find everything very easily and he can’t find anything at all without asking me all the time where things are. Is that because I was the person who did the organizing? If you do the organizing, does that mean the …