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So... anyone have a recipe for great peanut butter cookies?

 

Oh, yeah, I remember the giant Reese. And the giant Kit Kat. Hilarious.

 

From my trusty Better Homes and Gardens cookbook:

Peanut Butter Cookies

1/2 c. butter or margarine
1/2 c. peanut butter
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar or honey
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 c. flour
Extra sugar

In a large mixing bowl, beat butter or margarine and peanut butter until creamy. Add both sugars, baking soda and baking powder. Beat until combined, scraping the bowl as needed. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour.

Shape dough into 1 ince balls. Roll in extra sugar to coat. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten gently by crisscrossing the tines of a fork. Bake at 375* for 7-9 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned.

Tips: Bake at 350* if you're using a Teflon coated pan to help not burn them. Take them out after 7 minutes and they'll finish cooking while cooling.

 

Hubby got to use his manly skills today. He BBQed up some steaks while I made rice to celebrate the holiday.

 

I'm not a 'super chef' but I'm always forced to make the food, fortunately I like doing it.

My five basic rules:
1.Put lots o' butter in anything and it'll taste great
2.Eat special, hard to do food only at your parents
house!
3.If you decide to cook/bake hard stuff, use the force
4.Trust your nose
5.Trust the cooking book

My special drink: I tried a verrrrrrrry Homer-like drink a year ago, warmed Pepsi with some hot chocolate, my friends liked it after tasting it. MAN it tastes good

 

That's almost the opposite rule for me. With my family history of heart disease, butter is a no-go for me.

 

I said 'it'll taste good', I didn't say it's healthy

 

Taco salads...uber delicious! So tastey there won't be any left for hubby tonight!

 

What exactly is a taco salad?

 

A salad with taco beans in it. Like what you get from Wendy's.

 

The taco salads I've seen usually have lettuce, tomatoes, cooked and seasoned ground beef, cheddar cheese, and crumbled tacos. The dressing is usually a mix of salsa and sour cream.

 

Well, my lovely plan for a vacation full of healthy grilled dinners was nixed by incessant rain. We managed to get the grill lit one night but then had to cover the coals with foil to keep them going. Good thing the cabins had ovens as a fallback.

Baked/grilled apples are lovely with butter pecan ice cream, BTW. And even heavy rain can't stop s'mores from being wonderful.

 

So, i want to give the Sponge Toffee Dfly mentioneda try. however, how the HECK are you supposed to measure the tempterature of the stuff?

 

You should be able to find a candy thermometer in most grocery stores Ara, but I believe you can also test it by dropping a little bit of the liquid in a cup of cold water. When it forms a hard ball then it should be ready. It would be at the "hard crack stage". It should be the consistancy of a hard candy.

 

thanks Dfly!

and GO ME!

for I added bakingPOWDER instead of baking SODA.. think it is ghoing to be anything but a mess after it cools down? *grimace*

 

Well it has been a couple of days since your last post here Ara, so I'm curious. Did you ever get a good batch of sponge toffee going for you? Or did you use up all your ingredients in the baking powder batch?

 

I fon't know what the heck went ewrong but it looked wuite messy and tasted weird. Possibly it was SUPPOSED to taste like that, but I donöt know *shrugs*

now, on the other hand, I have lots of baking supplies... *evil*

 

by the looks of it, there might be a "cooking #2" or a cooking forum.

 

Kuemp, that cookie recipe = utter bliss