Cooking
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Super Easy No Bake Cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 Cup Milk 1/4 Pound Butter 2 Cups Sugar 3 Tab. Cocoa (unsweetened) 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter 1 Tsp. Vanilla 3 Cups Quick Oats (I used Quaker 1 min. Oats) Step one: Melt the butter, milk, cocoa and sugar and bring to a boil for one minute. Step two: Remove from heat and add the peanut butter and vanilla. Step three: Slowly stir in the oats. Step Four: Spoon the cookies onto wax or parchment paper. Done! I usually double the recipe and give them away as teacher gifts or bring to cookie exchanges. Please join me on Facebook.
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More Awesome Pumpkin Dishes!
Warning! Eat before reading this post. It could cause some serious hunger pangs. I asked Johnny Depp what he put into his chili and he rattled off the following ingredients. Beer (Corona), Morning Star crumbles, poblano chile, chipolte chile, oregano, pumpkin, onion, fresh tomato and an avacado and celantro garnish. The sour cream on top was a mixture of sour cream and pumpkin. I don’t think he used a recipe he just started mixing. I do know that I happened to see him at a hockey game the night before and he had no idea what he was making.Then he served all of us this amazing dish. Ashton made a pumpkin shrimp brushetta.…
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Celebrity Iron Chef III – Pumpkin
Back in July I wrote about our Celebrity Iron Chef night. The secret ingredient was peaches and each husband (celebrity) was challenged to create an appetizer, entrée and dessert that included peaches. The wives were the judges. Well, by the end of the evening, the wives were so full of delicious peachy treats that one of us (not me) stepped out for some fresh air and took to lying in the driveway just to stretch her stomach. We never got around to judging. But while we sat around my friend K.’s beautiful table… We discussed who would host the next Celebrity Iron Chef night. I must have had a little too much wine because I volunteered. Then I…
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Grilled Cheese Jalapeno Popper Sandwich
I discovered a great way to take pictures while cooking. Have Eric do the cooking! It’s much easier and I don’t get greasy food smudges all over my camera. This week we tried a unique grilled cheese sandwich for dinner. It was delicious. Eric found the recipe from Closet Cooking. Ingredients for three sandwiches: 6 Jalapeno peppers, cut lengthwise and seeded 6 Slices of sour dough bread 3 Tablespoons of butter – room temp. 3 Tablespoons of cream cheese – room temp. 1 & 1/2 Cup shredded jack and cheddar cheese 2 Tablespoons crushed tortilla chips or Doritos First place the peppers cut side down on a baking sheet and broil them…
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Halloween Extravaganza!
My feet are aching from standing in the kitchen barefoot for seven hours trying to create my Halloween extravaganza recipes. Sometimes my vision for the perfect party doesn’t quite match the reality of my cooking ability. I get a little carried away and think that I’m a wizard in the kitchen. I’m not. However, I was able to make some cool magic wands. It all started last week when I remembered that this is the last Halloween we’ll all be together. The last Halloween all the seniors at North High will be together. So, I decided to have a party. It’s really easy to say, “Hey, let’s have a party!” Go ahead try it. See… easy.…
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Cool Weather Chili
The weather in Florida has been beautiful. Our windows are open and the air conditioner is off. It’s our chili time of year. Usually Eric is the cook in our house but since he’s away at Busch Gardens being chased by zombies and vampires I decided to give his chili recipe a try. Turns out it’s easy to make, easy to clean up and there’s enough to have chili every night of the week. Should you want to have chili every night of the week. Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive or canola oil 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 1 large carrot, chopped 1 medium green bell pepper, cored, seeded…
