Saturday, September 24, 2011

Scrapping Survivor Week 2

The Week 2 challenge for Scrapping Survivor over at GingerScraps was a recipe challenge. Our recipe box is a hard drive. We keep all of our favorites on my computer or my husband's computer.  The ones we use a lot, we eventually print out and place into page protectors. So I decided to "print" my recipe on dot matrix paper. I had to make my own scrap of dot matrix paper and then I went back and looked at the challenge guidelines and I had put the recipe on a recipe card. Ugghh. And I slaved over that piece of paper. Here are the challenge guidelines:

  • The LO must have at least one photo of your favorite recipe (a photo of the actual food)
  • You can not use a photo from a cookbook or online. It MUST be a photo you or a friend of family member has take. A photo from your personal collection.
  • The LO must have a Recipe Card *With the full recipe written/typed on the card*
  • Your LO can have additional photos BUT the Recipe must be the focal point
  • The Recipe Card must be fully visible, although a bit of overlapping is allowed.
  • In your description box in the gallery, you MUST type out the complete recipe.
  • Remember NO TEMPLATES in this challenge.
Here is my original layout, with my scrap of dot matrix paper:
Reverse Engineering Gabriels' Guacamole Recipe
Kit: French Bistro by Pixels by Jen and Lilacs in Bloom
Staples from Remember the Moment by Unforgettable Memories with Amy Peck
Title Font: Uncle typewriter
Journaling Font: sf Jeff
Recipe Font: JD LCD Rounded

Reverse Engineering Gabriels' Guacamole Recipe
Kit: French Bistro by Pixels by Jen and Lilacs in Bloom
Staples from Remember the Moment by Unforgettable Memories with Amy Peck
Recipe Card from Cooking with the Heart by Sus Designs
Tomato by Pattie Knox from Penscappers May 11 kit
Title Font: Uncle typewriter
Journaling Font: sf Jeff
Recipe Font: LB Lisa B
The journaling reads:
We love the Guacamole Especial at Gabriels. We love it so much we decided to make it our guacamole recipe, so we went to Gabriels over and over and paid special attention as  it was made. Some ingredients were easy, like the juice of half of lime, some were harder as we'd argue over how many onions they put in: 2 teaspoons? One tablespoon? We'd go home and make the guacamole and tweak the ingredients until we had it perfected. And then we'd go back to Gabriels to compare their version to ours. Imagine our surprise when we rushed in for take-out one evening and noticed that they had the guacamole recipe posted on the wall. We were going to snap a photo, but we didn't have a camera. Someday we will have to compare our recipe to their official recipe.

And the recipe is:
Reversed Engineered Recipe for Gabriels' Guacamole Especial.

4 Large Hass avocados, halved
4 TBS tomato, diced
3 TBS onion, diced
1 TBS jalapeno, finely diced
1 tsp garlic, minced
3/4 tsp salt
Juice of 1/2 lime squeezed
1 TBS fresh cilantro (optional)

Place all ingredients into a molcajete and
mix vigorously with a spoon and whisk.

We love this guacamole so much we even went out and bought a molcajete to make it in.

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