6 posts tagged “food”

What's your favorite kind of homemade cookie?  Share the recipe if you have it.

That's an easy one to answer.

Chocolate Chip Cookies.

The recipe we're using supposedly have been in the family since forever. When mixed up the dough is very heavy and very dense. I have been told that you gotta use the heavy machinery when mixing it up and then people usually end the story by telling how one grandma or another burned up a mixer that didn't have a good enough motor to handle the dough.

That is what has been issued for the day. The estimate is anywhere from a trace up to 4" in places. With our luck it'll probably be 4" or nothing. At least that is how it seems like things are normally going around here.

Talked hubby into doing takeout something for lunch today. That way I have the undivided time to get going on the cooking which needs to get started today. We're only the two of us this year (a little sad about that) so it isn't much, but cooking lunch & dinner and start the cooking for tomorrow and all the dishes which needs to be cleaned makes me want to opt for takeout.

Who would have known that kitties actually have patience when waiting for the weekly can of wet food? From previous behavior I sure had not noticed.

Let me backtrack a little..

I did not get any sleep last night, so when it came time for hubby to leave for work I was pretty durn tired and headed directly to bed to catch some snoozes.

6 hours later I finally wake back up.

This is long after the time the furry members of the household normally get their wet food and neither of them had tried to wake me up to remind that it was time and they would be starving to death if they didn't get fed right now.

I did not know that ours had any ounce of patience left, but it sure was nice getting a decent snooze. Of course I now have to deal with the problem of going to bed and falling asleep tonight.

One freezer safe plastic container filled with not yet frozen chilli needs to sit on a totally flat surface in the freezer until it's frozen. Doing anything else will make your kitchen look like a crime scene with brain splatter all over the place, if the container falls off the shelf while trying to get something else out of the freezer.

Don't ask me how I know. Thankfully we did not have to hire a special trained crime scene cleanup crew.

Yeah that was the most exciting happening over the weekend.

Managed to walk out of both Michaels and Joanns without spending a dime. That has not happened in a long, long time. Of course I am slowly shifting gears towards not buying/wanting much on this side of Christmas (Still have that stamp order). I have seen so many (mostly) women complain about not getting anything for Christmas, but they fail to think about their own spending habits and how they don't give their husbands a fair chance of gifting them anything interesting because these women buy and buy and buy and buy.

As seen in my Gmail Spam box:

Title: Gingered Spam Salad
Categories: Salads, Go-withs, Misc.
Yield: 1 Servings

1 cn Spam, sliced matchstick size
1/4 c Finely chopped ginger root
1 ea Small red onion, finely Chopped
1/2 ts Garlic powder
1/4 c Freshly squeezed lime juice
Zest of 1 lime
1/2 ts Oriental dried chili powder
1/4 c Chopped cilantro leaves
8 ea Cherry tomatoes
Thai bird peppers and
Cilantro sprigs to garnish

Combine all ingredients in a sealed glass or plastic container to marinate. Refrigerate at least two hours or preferably overnight.
Stir or shake occasionally to evenly coat.
One hour before seving, stir in cilantro. Serve on a bed of torn lettuce of your choice.
Garnish with quartered cherry tomatoes, Thai bird peppers and cilantro sprigs.

I think I would prefer to use anything but spam in this recipe. Either cubed turkey, chicken or ham sounds pretty good.

Cranberry Nut Bars

2 Eggs
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Flour
1/3 Cup Melted Butter
11/4 Cup Cranberries (Fresh or Frozen)
1/2 Cup Walnuts (Chopped)

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Grease an 8-inch square pan.
Beat eggs in a medium bowl until thick.
Gradually add sugar, beating until throughly blended.
Stir in flour and melted butter. Blend well.
Add cranberries and nuts, mixing gently just until combined.
Spread evenly into pan.
Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown.
Cool and cut into squares.
Makes 6 servings.

This was a new to me recipe and I have to say it is majorly yummy. Def something I'll put into the permanent recipe storage.