We got the genius idea to make chicken and biscuits for breakfast last weekend. I made the biscuits and honey butter, and the guy took care of the chicken. Do you see the flaky layers of those biscuits? Its like they are welcoming the chicken home. We used this recipe here.
At our house, it is never too cold for ice cream. Especially the homemade kind. This is cinnamon ice cream from this book. I have never made legit ice cream before, and I was very pleased how it turned out. We put it on top of some warm, apple pie so we stayed nice and cozy.
We decided to make pizza entirely from scratch. We made the dough and tossed it around trying to make a circle. We simmered tomatoes and onions and spices on the stove to make sauce. We put the toppings on. And it tasted amazing because we made it with our own 4 hands, and love.
Since these cookies have coconut and oatmeal, they are like mostly healthy… I am honestly trying to limit us to one kind of cookie a week. They just better not run out until the weekend when I can make some more.
My ma gave me a fun mini pie pan (like this kind) for a gift. Because I like pie and tiny things. We made some tiny apple pies to test it out while I was home.
They turned out great! Plus, it was fun to say that we were eating half of a whole pie. But I will definitely make the top crust a little larger than the cutter next time, since I like a more robust pie.
I could see these being a cute dessert choice at the wedding! Who wouldn’t drop dead at the sight of a big plate of tiny pies??!!
We got the year started off right with a recipe from my “new” Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book. It is full of recipes that I can’t wait to try, but we started with the Butterscotch Brownies. They are simple, chewy, and good in all the right places.
I really love old school cookbooks. I get lost in the little stories and history behind the recipes.
Also, thank you to my panda, who got me this sweet chalkboard plate for Christmas. I am still figuring out how to write neatly with the chalk.
In my house growing up, you got “fired” from certain jobs if you weren’t doing good work. I rarely got fired from anything, but I was promoted very quickly up the cookie making ranks. The cookie baking sessions at Christmas are always some of my most favorite times of the year.
Santa brought me a couple of new (and old) cookbooks, so I am looking forward to all the kitchen adventures soon to come in the new year!
For our Christmas goody bags this year, we went with a selection of candy. I have only made a couple kinds of candy before, so it was fun to experiment. Secret: candy making really isn’t all that hard.
We made gingerbread caramels (on which I burned my thumb very badly…). It was so satisfying to wrap the little squares in parchment.
We made gingerbread cookie ornaments (not candy, but still in our goody bags). I actually had to put a label that said the cookie was for your tree, not your mouth. But, despite the presence of a piece of ribbon going through a hole in its head, people still ate it!
We made sweet and spicy peanut brittle, which turned out really delicious.
And we made candied citrus peels, because we are engaged now, and these seem more grown-up and fancy.
I have the best memories of baking with my ma at all times of the year, but holiday baking is always special. There is just something about a big plate of beautiful cookies at Christmas that bring out the warm fuzzies.
If you are in the market for some cookie recipes, check out my list of 100 cookie recipes here. Now that I am looking through the list, I might make a batch of these animal cookies to give to the little ones I babysit.
Sometimes, you just need a cookie. And then sometimes, you also need one at work the next day on a post-it plate.
These chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips are chewy and fudgey, and made me really popular at the office.
guy and his girl 