We made peaches

I make a Mean Green Bean

I was asked to whip up a salad to go with tonight's "leftover dinner" but alas even I cannot make a salad without greens! (No makings for a greek either) so I decided to cook up some green beans instead, they're still healthy if I smother them in butter right??

A Mean Green Bean:

Ingredients:
Sauce-
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup butter
2 cloves minced garlic
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp (1-2 cubes) bouillon

1 pound green beans

Recipe:

1. Mix all sauce ingredients in a saucepan and heat until almost boiling, reduce to simmer and leave for 20 minutes.
2. While sauce is simmering, boil beans for 3-4 minutes (until your personal cooked/crispy balance is achieved).
3. Pour sauce over bean and garnish with sesame seeds if you are artsy.

Voila! Enjoy.

Scrumptious Basic White Cake.

As the baker in my family of five I get frequent requests to satisfy family member's cravings, this one was for my mom as she desired a moist white cake, sources say she was pretty happy when I brought these little morsels to her. We enjoyed them with milk but a simple butter cream icing would also compliment them nicely.

Scrumptious Basic White Cake:

Ingredients:

1 cup white or raw sugar

1/2 cup butter 

2 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cup milk or half 'n half

Recipe:

1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9 X 9 pan or line a cupcake tray with paper liners.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and add vanilla. Add flour and baking powder and mix well. Add milk or half 'n half (I strongly recommend the half 'n half option!) and stir until batter is smooth. Pour into pan or cupcake tray.
3. Bake 30-40 minutes for cake, 20-25 for cupcakes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.

Shit Ayla Makes: the story.

So, I'm Ayla Raabis, I bake a lot. I like creating things in the kitchen and with my strong repulsion to properly following recipes I usually end up creating my own versions of recipes that I never remember and despite my family's pleas cannot recreate. I figured I should remedy this by writing down the things I make. When I started this process my mom made the point that typing out a pages document is one step away from blogging it, so why not share the dishes I cook with the internet world, and thus Shit Ayla Makes was born.

Bon appetit.