Second and third helpings please!

I am watching way too much reality TV.  Particularly the ones dealing with food.  Not sure if it has any correlation with my current dieting state.  The old "you want what you can't have" adage.  For me, I want food.  For you, maybe it's a bit more out of your reach.  A man/woman?  A motorcycle?  World travel for a year?

One show I have to stop watching is Man vs Food.  I still think it's way too much.  Well, most of the time.  I think I'm becoming desensitized to the amount of food that would considered disturbing.  Yikes!  12 egg omelet.  Is that really so bad?  Who doesn't eat bacon and home fries with their eggs?  So what if the total weight including the cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, peppers, and green onions total 5-lbs.  The vegetables don't count.  Add those to the 'eating healthy' category.  And the 'lying to yourself' category too. lol

Watching Cupcake Wars or baking competitions, just puts me in the mood for some form of baked good.  Cookie, cake, bar, muffin, whatever!

Sadly, even some disgusting combos sound possible.  Check out this site This is Why You're Fat Pretty funny.

If I suspend my disbelief of the caloric intake for just one meal I can actually enjoy my wings, chili, pizza, chip & dip, and desserts.  Hey, suspension of disbelief is the foundation of most of Hollywood movies.  LaLaLand can't be wrong. Right?!  haha

You can pretend years of over-eating, debauchery, smoking, recreational drug use, spending beyond your means, etc is o.k., but it will all catch up it you one day.  You'll end up broke, fat, with some form of organ damage.

I said years of abuse.  This weekend is OK though.  Diet Schmiet

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Rainbow Cupcakes

I couldn't be bothered with icing, but white piped would look really cute as clouds :D

recipe is the BEST ever cupcake recipe, from nigella's domestic goddess :>

1. 
   
   
   
   Preheat oven to 200 degrees C
   
   Round up your ingredients
   
   Beat the sugar and butter together, until fluffy and light coloured
   
   


2. 
   
   
   
   Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour each time, until you've added it all.
   
   


3. 
   
   
   
   Ad the vanilla essence, mix
   
   one tbsp milk, mix
   
   one tbsp milk, mix
   
   one tbsp milk, mix
   
   


4. 
   
   
   
   Divide between 6 bowls
   
   Bowl 1- Add half a cap full of red colouring
   
   Bowl 2- Add half a cap full of red and half a cap full of yellow
   
   Bowl 3- Half a cap of yellow
   
   Bowl 4- Half a cap full of green
   
   Bowl 5- Half a cap full of Blue
   
   Bowl 6- Half a cap full of Blue, half a cap full of Red.
   
   Obviously, mix after you've added the colourings
   
   


5. 
   
   
   
   Divide the purple bowl between the 12 cases. smooth to form bottom layer.
   
   Repeat with the other bowls in this order:
   Blue
   Green
   Yellow
   Orange
   Red
   
   Put in the oven for 15-20 mins
   
   skewer to find out if it's ready, if it come out gunky, put it back in the oven! if clean, then pop on a cooling rack
   
   


6. 
   
   
   
   Decorate!!!
   
   go crazy!
   
   

NOTE:  Use a box of White cake mix instead of making the cake from scratch.  Then start from step 4.  Homemade is always tastier, but the reality is, not everyone is a baker, has all the ingredients, or prefers the convenience of just having to add oil and egg to a prepackaged mix.

I didn't follow the colour order as per the recipe.  I just put whatever colour The Boy wanted to put next.  Although, when I do it again, I won't finish with green on top.  Got feedback that it looked like my cupcakes had moldy fungus!  LOL