A few tips on chocolate chip cookies...

I should have posted this sooner. But here are a few tips about making your chocolate chip cookies the best you have ever tasted...

First, never use margerine or shortening. Only butter. The butter is better ;-) because it makes your cookies flatter. Second, put the baking powder and salt in before the flour, it helps the cookie dough flatten better when you bake it. Thirdly, don't add too much flour, because that will make your cookies puffy, and not flat. Fourthly, add a little extra Vanilla, just for taste, it always makes your cookies the best. I think that about sums it up!

When I first used these tips for Chocolate chip cookies, my brothers loved them, and won't have chocolate chip any other way!

Click here for the chocolate chip cookie recipe...

Have fun, and ENJOY!

~KJV~

Mommarie's Stroganoff

This is a very easy and tasty recipe. Great for beginners, and "professionals"

For 1 LB of Meat: (Steak (from leftovers), Beef or Pork)

Add flour to browned meat (2 TB Tablespoons for every Cup of milk)

3 C Milk

1 1/4 C Sour Cream

add 25 shakes of No-salt (or to taste) (you can get No-salt seasoning at Costco)

Parsley (to taste)

Salt and Pepper (also to taste)

Serve over rice.

Enjoy

~KJV~

Mud Pie

This recipe is so yummy and makes a great summer dessert...

1. Crush 26 Oreo cookies. Mix with 1/3 c. melted butter. Pat into bottom of 9x13 pan. Freeze.

2. Let 1/2 gal. vanilla ice cream sit until slightly melted. Spread on crust. Freeze.

3. Pour 1 large can fudge topping (not choc. syrup) on top of ice cream. Freeze.

4. Spread a large tub of Cool Whip on top of fudge topping. Freeze.

5. Sprinkle with crushed Oreos.

V.L.S.

Broccoli n' Cheese Casserole

This makes a wonderful side dish.

2 frozen pkg broccoli, cooked and drained
1/2 lb. cheddar cheese, crumbled
1/2 pkg Ritz crackers
1/2 C butter

Alternate layers of broccoli and cheese.  Put crackers on top.  Pour melted butter over the crackers.
Bake at 325 degrees until cheese bubbles.  20-25 minutes.

~VLS

Summer is here...

so please click on the "Summer" label to find recipes perfect for hot summer days!

Frosting Your "Perfect" Cake

Have you frosted your cake, and wished you knew a better way so you wouldn't get it on the seving plater?

Just place a piece of parchment or wax paper on your serving plater. Then frost your cake. Slip the paper out from underneath. And there you have it! a nice frosted cake. With NO messes!

KJV

Oatmeal Pancakes

These are gluten free!

1 C rice or almond milk

3/4 Quick-cooking oats

3/4 C oat flour
2 T honey, agave syrup, brown rice syrup, maple syrup, etc.
2 tsp. Ener-G brand (Huckleberry's) baking powder.  It's allergen free.
1/2 tsp. salt
2 beaten egg yolks
1 T light-flavored olive oil, walnut oil, etc.
2 egg whites

Heat milk until hot, stir in quick oats and let stand for 5 minutes.  Combine all remaining dry ingredients in a mixing bowl then add oat/milk mixture.  Add egg yolks and oil into the mix.  Beat egg whites seperately until stiff peaks form.  Fold egg whites into batter.  Lightly oil cooking pan and drop batter onto pan in desired size and cook.

Hard to Cut Brownies?

...Here's a good way to do it.

Take a pizza cutter, instead of a plastic or metal knife. Works great!

KJV

No More Cooked-on Messes: Try it!

When I cook any type of pasta or rice, I spritz the pan with the nonstick cooking spray, let it sit for a moment, then add the water. Once the water boils, I add the pasta and stir as needed. When it's done, there's no sticky mess on the botom of the pan.

--Judith Wenzel, Hemlock, Michigan

~KJV~