Pantry Revisited

These are called "My Newest Chocolate Chip Cookies" in Dorie Greenspan's Dorie's Cookies book.   Other than a bit of a nutmeg and coriander the recipe is very similar to a regular chocolate chip cookies. I have never been a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies.  Which is very strange because I love chocolate!   For a cookie to be great in my opinion it has to be chock-full of things like nuts, fruit, etc.  i'm really a pie kind of girl.  Even as a child I would choose pies over cakes for sure!  The only cookies I remember my mother making when I was a child are her famous tea cakes with homemade chocolate sauce and chocolate oatmeal boiled cookies. Do any of you remember those?  Sometimes we would add a tablespoon of peanut butter to them.  They were very yummy!  I'm allergic to oatmeal now so those days are gone. Anyway these are delicious cookies and very easy to make.  I used a small melon baller to scoop out the dough. ...

I attempted to make Dorie's buttermilk blueberry bars.  I tried to half the recipe.  In this case, that did not work as well as I hoped.  Also, When I took my crust from the oven it  had some almost black areas on it like it had burned even though I removed it five minutes earlier than the recipe called for.  They were just random areas.  Anyway the cookies tasted delicious and that's what's important!  I would definitely make this again. I cannot stop eating these cookies!  They are that good! Next time I will make the full recipe. Check on our website to see how others fared.    Dorie

I chose  this weeks theme as garden party.  It's that time of year when vegetables are so appealing to everyone!  I was serving hamburgers tonight and trying to find some vegetable that would go with them. I chose ellie's pasta salad with garden vegetables which can be found on page 250 of her comfort food fix cookbook.  It calls for twisted rotini but I used shells instead because that is what I had in the pantry!  This is very healthy pasta loaded with chopped vegetables. Carrots onion celery tomatoes cabbage.  All delicious!  And I would definitely take this to a garden party !   Recipe is here  Recipe . Check out our website at  ewellie.wordpress.com What did you do for memorial weekend?  We took off in our camper to North Georgia.  We had a couple of friends that went with us. We had never been to this campground before. The campsites were very spacious.  The bathroom was very clean. There was not much to do ther...

This week's name was chosen by me.  It is always fun to make a Mexican dish.   Interesting fact. I have heard that only Americans celebrate this holiday. Ellie did not have a lot of Mexican dishes to choose from.  I chose the easy chicken mushroom quesadillas.  I like quesadillas!  I already had some shredded chicken which I had made in my instant pot the day before so these were easy to put together.  I have never made quesadillas before. I don't know if I cooked my tortillas long enough.   They were not really crispy.  And I have to say the filling was rather bland   I want to try this again soon but add something to give a little more flavor.  The salsa was good with it. You can find the recipe here.  Recipe Check out our website  ewellie.wordpress.com

Dorie Greenspan's cookies are the best.  Truly.  I am enjoying being in the Tuesday cookie group.  We make cookies every first and third Tuesday.  Come join us! Recently we were on a trip to Lagrange Georgia. At a restaurant there on their dessert bar, they had peanut butter cornflake cookies.  The next day we were in a grocery store and they sold peanut butter cornflake cookies so of course I had to buy a few for our trip home.  I liked them so much when we got home I googled and found a recipe for them!  These chocolate cornflake cookies of Dorie's remind me a lot of them in the way they look.   However, the similarity stops there. I was worried that these were not going to hold together when I put them on the cookie sheet. However they came out OK.  I just ate one while it was warm and while it was good, there was something lacking. They are not very sweet and the flavor is not strong.  I put craisens in mine and really that is m...

This week Gaye chose mash ups as our theme.  Being basically non-creative this week, I decided to make........you know it.........drumroll..........Garlic Mashed Potatoes!  I wanted to try cooking the potatoes in my new Instant Pot! If you have not discovered the instant pot yet let me encourage you to do so!  I am leaving mine on my countertop and using it every night.  It has replaced my crockpot for sure.   It can serve as a crockpot or a rice cooker or a pressure cooker. I made chicken teriyaki in just 25 minutes with frozen chicken breasts! OK back to the mashed potatoes!  They were delicious and I served them alongside meatloaf.  You can never go wrong with mashed potatoes.  Ellie does keep the skins on her potatoes which is fine by me.    By the way I cooked the meatloaf in my new Insta pot!   Can you tell I'm loving it? You can get the recipe here.  Ellie Visit our website here.  Ewellie.wordpress.c...

Lemon Sugar Cookies!  What could be better than that.  These were so easy to mix up a child could make them. Quick to cook.  Quick to cool.  And quick to disappear once you start eating them!   They are lemony, sugary, Crisp and chewy.   We are headed out this weekend for a camping trip to Callaway Gardens. They will be perfect to tagalong with us.  I made half the recipe and it made 24 cookies. Perfect for the two of us! Check out our website to see what the others did this week.   Dorie Have a blessed Easter and hope the bunny hops your way!