Dec. 6, 2006 Cookie Exchange, BFS #8
Most people  LOVE cookies and the holidays are just a perfect time of year to share our family favorite cookie recipes.
The assignment this week is to post your recipe and any family history behind the recipe.
First, let me say I don't bake very much, not because I don't like to bake. I love to cook and bake, but mostly because I cannot control myself. If I bake a batch of cookies, I will give each of my children one or two cookies and then I will eat all the rest! So, if it isn't in the house, I can't be tempted by it.
Although I didn't feel prepared, I wanted to do this assignment because we generally like to bake sugar cookies during the Christmas season. So, I chose a recipe from the magazine, Everyday Food, for Cinnamon Sugar Cookies. My three older kids helped make the cookies. I took a few pictures of the process, but they were blurry. I'm not sure if it was my camera or if I was doing something wrong. Hmmmf (I just discovered that the auto focus feature was turned off). Anyway, here is one picture, a bit blurry, but you can't help but enjoy the expression on my son't face:
Anyway, we tripled the batch and put one third aside for rolling out and cutting with cookie cutters. The other two thirds we divided into three separate bowls, dyed each bowl a different color and then rolled them out and created a pinwheel log, which we cut and made one pan of cookies each evening or afternoon throughout the weekend. Conclusion: the rolled out plain cookies were much better than the dyed ones, but the dyed ones were definitely easier to deal with.
This past week I've been thinking that, growing up, my mother didn't make cookies very often, but one kind of cookie she did make was a chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookie that I really liked. Last summer, I got a hankering for these, found a recipe on Food Network .com, and made them. They were served after church for refreshments and I had many people talk about how they used to eat these when they were a kid. If you are interested, here is a link to the recipe, Chocolate Peanut-Butter No Bake Cookies.
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Nov. 22, 2006 Thanksgiving Traditions, BFS #7 Oct. 31, 2006 We Made It! (Follow Up on Pumpkin Recipe) Oct. 25, 2006 Pumkin Recipe, Blogger Friend School Assignment #4
ASSIGNMENT: In honor of the season, I thought we all could do something fun this week! I'd like everyone to share something to do with a pumpkin or pumpkin related. This can be a recipe, decorating idea, or if you are really creative "show" us on your blog :)
I found the following recipe at Taste of Home. I haven't tried it yet, but I really like the idea of tart cranberries combined with sweet pumkin. I am going to try to find time this weekend to make it and if I do, I will document and post it in another entry. Here goes:
Cranberry Pumpkin Bread
3 3/4 C. All Purpose Flour
3 C. Sugar
4 t Pumpkin Pie Spice
2 t Baking Soda
1 t Salt
4 Eggs
1 15 oz. can Solid Pack Pumpkin
1/2 C. Vegetable Oil
2 C. Fresh or Frozen Cranberries (thawed, if frozen)
1 C. Chopped Walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 Degrees. Grease two 9" x 5" x 3" loaf pans.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, spice, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, pumpkin and oil. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in cranberries and walnuts. Pour into prepared pans and bake 70 to 80 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and then remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
BONUS RECIPE: Cranberry Pecan Pie
I have another holiday type recipe from Taste of Home that I have made for the past two years. It is always a hit everywhere I bring it (in fact, my good friend, Leesa C. always takes the entire remains home with her and it takes me months to get my pie plate back). I am only going to give the filling ingredients and directions as I usually use a purchase pie crust. The entire recipe does include pie crust directions. Here goes:
3 Eggs
1 C. Corn Syrup
2/3 C. Sugar
1/4 C. melted Butter
1 t. Vanilla extract
2 C. Fresh Cranberries
1 C. Chopped Pecans (I think I may have added more pecans)
Combine the eggs, corn syrup, sugar, butter and vanilla until blended. Stir in cranberries and pecans. Pour into prepared crust. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 35 to 40 minutes longer or until filling is almost set. Cool completely on wire rack. Cover and refrigerate overnight before slicing.
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Oct. 19, 2006 Panning for Gold
Here is Blogger Friend School Assignment #3, Panning for Gold: The assignment this week is to share my internet treasures, websites I visit for various things. Here goes!
~A website that you visit everyday: homeschoolblogger.com, where else?
~First place you look for a book to buy: christianbook.com or amazon.com (you can usually find a great price from their used book sellers).
~Favorite Homeschool Support Area: Don't have one.
~Homeschool site full of information that you use regularly: Don't have one.
~Site that you buy your new curriculum from: Sonlight.com
~Site that you buy your used curriculum from: eBay.com
~Site that offers frugal tips to save money: miserlymoms.com, cheapskatemonthly.com
~A site that provides good wholesome recipes: theurbanhomemaker.com
~An informational site that shows you "how" to: I can't think of any.
~A homeschool family website that you purchase from to support them: titus2.com, doorposts.net, timberdoodle.com
~A charity website that you support: I can't think of any!
~Favorite Graphic site to get graphics for your blog or other things: I don't have one, but would LOVE to find one!!
~Site that offers an educational calendar listing important historical events and also to keep you informed on upcoming events. (ex: Fire Safey Week): enchantedlearning.com
~Site that offers Homeschool Freebies: I can't think of any!
~Site that offers any kind of Freebies: I can't think of any!
~A blog to read that is always full of humor: homeschoolblogger.com/ladymother
~A blog to read that is always full of useful information: I can't think of any!
~A blog to visit because it is eye appealing and easy to read: homeschoolblogger.com/stitchNchick (I just found this new friend and her blog is so pretty, I could spend hours looking through it).
~A site that you would allow your children to visit: starfall.com
~List any other sites that you would like to share that have provided you with a wealth of golden information: I can't think of any off the top of my head.
************** EXTRA CREDIT FUN************
Library Lines - Below is a quote from a book. Can you guess what book this is from?
"They had driven over the crest of a hill. Below them was a pond, looking almost like a river so long and winding was it. A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand hill shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues - the most spirtual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found...................."
My guess is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, one of my favorites! I've read all her books!
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)). I made an earl grey tea and spice cranberry sauce recipe that I found in the November issue of Sunset magazine (Note: I don't have a subscription, but there is a little thrift store at the dump here and my husband likes to buy magazines for a quarter. 
Imagine finding current magazines for 25 cents!) and I made my now famous cranberry pecan pie. My family really isn't fond of pecan pie. Everyone knows I really make the pie for my friend, Leesa, who will allow one slice for everyone and then take the pie and pie plate home with her for her own consumption. I can only hope to get my pie plate back someday.
The year before I think it was balloon chasing. There was a time in my life when I would have dreaded being around a bunch of noisy kids, but now I hardly hear the noise.
