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1 Cup of butter
1 Cup white sugar
Cream together.
Add
1/2 cup of brown sugar packed
1/3 cup molasses
1 egg
Cream together
In a separate bowl
2.5 cups of flower
1 tablespoon dry ginger
1.5 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
Mix together
Add to wet ingredients
Mix together
Place about 1.5 tablespoon size bits 2″ apart on a cookie sheet.
Top with a ginger spice drop.
Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
Cool on rack – enjoy warm.
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So occasionally as you know, I receive recipes in my organics box. It is important for me to keep most of these, unless they are truly disgusting, and try them out when I have the energy. This one was really really delish so I thought I would pass it on.
Filling:
4 tbsp oil
1 onion (white, yellow, whatever)
1/2 lb baby bella’s or crimini mushrooms sliced
1 cup of white wine
2 sweet potatoes (or yams)
3 medium carrots chopped up
2 tbsp sage, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup vegetarian broth
salt and pepper
Topping:
4 medium yukon gold potatoes, chopped
1 head celery root, peeled and chopped
1 head of cauliflower, chopped
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 cup Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
In a large frying pan, heat half of oil over medium high heat. Saute onions until translucent, about 2-3 minutes, add mushrooms and cook until soft, about 3-4 minutes. Deglaze with white wine and simmer until wine is almost completely absorbed. Transfer to bowl.
Heat remaining oil in pan and fry potatoes and carrots until just tender, about 10-12 minutes. Add sage and garlic and saute for another minute or two then add broth. Simmer until liquid is reduced by half. Salt and pepper to taste and then combine with onions and mushrooms. Set aside.
For topping, steam first three ingredients until easily mashed with a fork, roughly 15-20 minutes. Mix well with butter and heavy cream, but still chunky. Fold in Cheddar.
Assemble filling in layers in a 9×9 inch baking dish. Top with mashed veggies. Add grated Parmigiano cheese and bake for 20 minutes, or until sides are bubbly and heated through.
Happy Eating and leftovers most likely for a day or two! YAY!
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Pumpernickel bread, 1/2 an avocado smashed with salt and garlic, chicken and lettuce. Super yum!
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Since high school I have worn gardening gloves in winter. They are prettier, easily fit a liner and have good grippers.
What I discovered today while wearing them is that they work with my Windows 8 Phone. That means they probably work with an iPhone too.
The point being they are just as warm but far cuter than the gloves made for texting in the cold if you ask me!
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Well… I have never been one to enjoy a pulp soup. This is my answer to it and I have to say I loved it and so did TWO soup partakers, one quite by accident.
You know how most Carrot and Squash soup is pulp or essentially squash and carrot run through a blender, not this bad boy. I received a recipe in my weekly organics box and thought…NO…I will not murder these marvelous gifts of nature that you have sent me. I instead chose to enjoy them in their righteous and glorious state or something of the sort. So I did what any self respecting cook does, I made it up.
Here’s how it goes:
Two Acorn squash, halved and deseeded
Two Delicata squash, though any winter squash would work again halved and seeded
Five – Six Carrots, whatever color or variety you like the best, chopped in half once shortways, not longways.
- sprinkle with brown sugar and put a pat of butter in the canoe. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and roast for 40 minutes all together in a big casserole dish.
- remove from the oven and then cool. Once cool, remove the outer rinde from the squash and make into bite size chunks, then slice the carrots up so they are small wheels, set aside.
In a sauce pan, melt three tablespoons of butter
Chop up one white or yellow onion, good sized.
Chop up three branches of celery
carmelize and brown these in the melted butter, add some salt and pepper to the process.
Pour in, one regular sized carton of veggie broth (most recipes seem to want you to use chicken broth, I have no idea why). Since veggie broth is sweeter than chicken broth, you will want to salt to taste, plus don’t forget we used a little brown sugar to roast the squash and carrots. Black pepper is your friend, but use to your liking.
After you have stirred in the broth and have the carmelized onions and celery simmering in it for about 5 minutes, add in your roasted veggies and bring to a boil for about 9 minutes. Then simmer on LOW or like a 2 for another 10 minutes and let all those flavors marry up.
Now… trust me here…go get a GIANT bowl. 
Add a dolop of sour cream and another fresh grind of pepper and get your eat on. Amazing.. it sounds weird or maybe it doesn’t, but it’s SOUPER! (see what I did there?) Hah!
If you like this let me know. I am happy to do some more testing on my unsuspecting but generally grateful household of mouths. If you think I should focus on crafts then…I can honestly say “fair feedback”.
Have a happy Saturday!
TxK
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The other day at work I was looking in the pantry and found a bag of small marshmallows that I had picked up for breakfast ice cream.
Someone said it was unfortunate that there wasn’t any peppermint schnapps.
There was however spiced rum so I whipped up a few of these, this is one of my favorite sweet winter drinks.
8oz hot chocolate
Shot of espresso
Shot of spiced rum
8-10 mini marshmallows
Sprinkle of cayenne pepper
Is it unusual that I had access to all of that at work and I don’t work at a restaurant?
Anyway, it is super delicious, perfect on a cold day.
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Testing, testing, 1-2-1-2 is thing on?
Posting from my Surface.
