Thursday, April 30, 2009

New Idea!!

So I follow several food blogs and at this http://www.tasteandtellblog.com/ she reviews a cookbook each month and then gives one a way each week. Well I love this idea since I have tons of cookbooks that I hardly use I figured I would and could do this. Well I bougth a new one today at walmart and I have found several recipes that I love from this book that I want to try. I will review each recipe each monday and give you my opionion on the recipe I also will be giving away ONE book each month. So you have four times to enter, my children will draw the name.

This month I will be reviewing the following book:



Good luck. Check back Monday to see which recipe I chose.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

So my husband has been in Dallas trying to get hired for a police job. Due to him passing all the aspects of it so far I decided to make him some cookies yet I did not have any whote flour but did have whole wheat flour that I need to use before we move. I took the recipe off the back of a chocolate chip bag but made some adjustments.

2 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
4 oz applesauce
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 m&m's

1. Heat oven to 375
2. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. Beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla untill creamy. Add eggs;beat well. Gradually add flour beat well. Stir in chocolate chips and m&m's . Drop by rounded teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Oreo Pie!!! Yummy

So I got this recipe from another blog. You can go here to check out this recipe plus tons others. I made her sugar cookie bars earlier in the week and they were yummy. Here is the recipe for Oreo Pie. I did modifiy a tiny bit because I had alot of the filling left over.


Ingredients
1 Oreo Pie Crust
12 Oreo cookies
8oz Cream Cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups whipped cream(Next I will only use a 1 1/2 cups)

Directions
In a small bowl, smash up 12 of the Oreo cookies...Set aside. In a medium bowl using a hand mixer, combine the cream cheese and sugar...Beat until light and fluffy. Add in the whipped cream and the smashed up Oreo cookies...Then use a rubber spatula and combine gently until well blended and the cookies are distributed throughout. Spoon into the Oreo pie crust and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.