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Cookies and Muffins

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  I'm BAAAACK. Let's get right into it! To make a dumb story long- to make a long story dumb? A few weeks ago I saw this cookie magazine at Woodmans and I was like I. Want. that. Then I saw it cost $12.99. No.  I also know cookie recipes are onLINE, but boring. There's just something fun about looking at beautiful cookie pictures! Anyway, I went home, searched the library and put 2 Christmas cookie books on hold. A week later I got my books and what a disappointment. Boo. No good recipes in either of them. TODAY I'm at the grocery store and there she is, Taste of Home Holiday Cookies and Baking!!! And I was right, within the 1st 5 pages, there were 4 cookies that looked amazing. Even MORE amazing was page 15 where I found the cranberry orange cookies- cause I had cranberries in the fridge and randomly bought an orange at the store today! It was destiny! I also found a recipe for pumpkin muffins.  Let's jump right in shall we.   Cranberry Orange Cookies.  Th...
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Deviled Eggs

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Presenting: The saltiest Devil'd Eggs EVER! Here's how to make them: 1. Get this book from St. Vinnies.  2. Pick out a recipe that I have the ingredients for.   It said to use 6 eggs, since I don't follow recipes, I only made 4.  Knowing it would cause problems later.  3. Boil your eggs and don't wait until the rolling boil. I was only off by a minute and only 1 was a little soft, so...not the worst crime 4. Make the filling and sort of guess all the amounts because there are less eggs.  5. Use too much salt by grabbing the wrong measuring device and guessing wrong and the "lesser" amount. 6. Add Cayenne. Just always add cayenne. 7. Do like the recipe says and add the olives even though,  you tasted the filling and it's clearly too salty. 8. Eat all the salty eggs anyway, because, you can just drink some water after to balance it out.  But As Giannis says....I'm really just like Michael Jordan.... “Michael Jordan played 15 years, won 6 championshi...
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Cheese and Crackers

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are going in my mouth right now. The larger problem is that I'm getting old. My tooth has become sensitive because of an alleged "receding gum line."  Bullshit.  Anyway, I had this whole hilarious post planned out about 3 weeks ago and now I forgot everything.  So Big Lil' Squirrel and I went to the strawberry patch where they had some crazy strawberries that weren't ripe but they said. "If the tips are red they are ripe, you can taste test them" and I'm like what? "You can taste them!" Okay Mr.,  I'll try your WHITE Canada strawberries that don't get ripe. Squirrel gave up picking pretty fast and so did I so we made a dessert.   First, my assistant cut the strawberries.  Second, something funny happened that I can't remember, but here is a video.  He said, "When can I mix?" and I said, "Never" in case you were wondering.  Finally, here is the finished dessert.  Squirrel didn't try it.  Which was okay bec...
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Blueberry Tart

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I didn't wear a bra to the dog park today. It was awesome. I also made a blueberry tart!! It's been 6 month since I last posted. There are some good vibes going around tonight. Lil' Squirrel had a mega tantrum 'cause his ice cream was on a plate instead of in a bowl. I was pairing it with this blueberry tart and I knew if I put the 2 items together, they would touch- so I thought sure a plate was the answer. No. But then, A MIRACLE he cried so hard over the ice cream, he passed out at 7:30 and is sound asleep!! The Tart. I used  this recipe . Heidi just farted. The dog. (that's an inside joke for my friend, Sally, I hope you are reading this!)   The directions said, "Prep Time 10 Minutes" I said, yeah right.  My guess is 30 minutes.   Here is my start time: I took that picture of the clock and then Lil' Squirrel's computer ran out of battery. I plugged it in and then went out to get the mail. Because that's my favorite part of the day.  I found...
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Cookies?

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Snow day today! I should be more chipper! But, I have a headache. That's boring. I made "BIG SOFT CHEWY" ginger cookies in an attempt to make something. Lil Squirrel really liked gingerbread cookies, but they are hard. I thought I'd give these a try.  Here is me eating a cookie.  That smile is real nice. Maybe I should take a shower. They are pretty good, truly big, soft and chewy. I can't decide if I'm eating raw dough or not. I guess you don't worry about that when your cookies are like this.  I've also started a quilt! What do you think of the squares?  Well, only tell me if you like them because I've already started and I can't change anything now! Nap Time!  Ms. Non-Sequitur
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Soup #2

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OKAY Folks, time to review soup #2,  Zuppa Toscana in my I MADE THE SOUP series.  First, we shall inspect this screen shot. "Prep: 15 minutes" that is complete bullshit.  This is a picture of some ingredients The bacon. Me burning my fingers cutting the bacon that I was supposed to cut before I cooked it.  This picture is boring. I ran out of this broth stuff, but my super husband had a back-up in the pantry.  The soup before the cream! And the family review AND NOW MY REVIEW. Well, this soup was really good. But, it was pain to do the kale and to cut the potatoes even though I shorted both..5 cups of kale (I was supposed to do 6 and 5 potatoes, also supposed to be 6.) What else, I added extra red pepper cause I thought it would be fun, but it was almost too hot.  I had some other complaints, but luckily I've forgotten them by now because the SOUP WAS SO GOOD. SCORE EASY:  like a 5.  Clocking in at an hour and 15 minutes, it took too long for me...
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I MADE THE SOUP- K's Lentil Soup

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I asked facebook for EASY and TASTY soup recipes and wow, did my people come through!  Welcome to my my new  "I MADE THE SOUP!" series!   I will score the soups from 1-10 on how Easy and Tasty they are and then rank them.  #1  K's Lentil Soup Recipe . This first one is hard because I have nothing to compare it with. I guess I could compare it with Grandma's Chili- because it's pretty much the only soup I've made in the last 5 years-actually I don't think I've made it in the last 5 years because MMD cooks the chili.  Anyway...brown the meat, cut the veggies... add the spices...probably noodles....Okay, Grandma's Chili:      Easy: 7 and Tasty 6.  K's Lentil Soup: Easy 6  (time factors heavily on this score, also, there wasn't much chopping but there were two pans and the whole immersion blender thing and adding toppings....doing everything in order etc etc.) Tasty 8 (the lemon gave it a nice zing...the dish really came together...
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