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Lumbele
| Friday, December 19, 2003 - 2:45 pm
Does anyone have experience with rolling out marzipan? Is there an easier way? I stuck mine between saran wrap and rolled my little heart out, but my arms and shoulders feel like I just moved a 10 person household.LOL Now off to make little carrots from the dyed stuff. What have I gotten myself into??????
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Lostintheglades
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 6:25 am
lol Lumbele....you have way too much energy for me. At the most I may make some oatmeal cookies this year but the French Silk pie I made last week was it for me. I take that back, if the bananas we picked off the tree last week before the freeze ripen up in time...I may make some of my famous Banana bread and add a few of the blueberries my friend gave me to it. (I still have about a 3/4 gallon bag left of those.)
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Maris
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 6:56 am
Use Confectioners 10X powder instead of flour to roll out the marzipan. Dust it on the surface and on your rolling pin.
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Lumbele
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:05 pm
LOL Lost, I couldn't make a decent chewy oatmeal cookie if my life depended on it (they always turn into dunkers), but my tortes are usually pretty dang fancy, if I say so myself. (Except for the no flour one last week, talk about lop-sided.LOL) Thanks Maris, the first time I did use icing sugar (what does the 10X stand for?) but found the saran wrap method easier if not easy. Those little marzipan carrots turned out quite realistic thanks to the combined talents of ds and g/f, but they looked so dull, so I mixed some icing sugar with lemon juice and water and brushed that on. Big improvement. The "greens" I cut from green pistachios.
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Theowl
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 12:13 pm
I'm with you on that Lumbele!! If anyone has the secret to "chewy" oatmeal cookies, please post it. I don't know how many recipes I've tried, and they all turn out flat. Is it old baking powder? That's one story I heard, but that didn't work for me. 
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Reader234
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 1:25 pm
>>>reader racing off to Food Network, and wondering the same thing about Choc Chip Cookies, why does Mrs Field's get nice big chewy cookies, and mine are ALWAYS flat, and yes I've tried baking powder, shortening, etc etc... Alton Brown did an episode on cookies, flay, chewy, etc...
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Reader234
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 1:39 pm
Recipe circa Choc Chip Cookies (not tried not true Mrs Fields) Cream 2 C Butter - - - 2 C sugar - - - 2 C Brown Sugar Add 4 eggs and 2 tsp vanilla Mix in 4 C flour 5 Cups of Blended oatmeal (you take your 5 cups of oatmeal and either blend them in a food processor or in your drink mixer till it makes a fine powder) 1 tsp salt 2 tsp Baking powder 2 tsp baking soda Combine and add 24 oz of Choc Chips + 1 8 oz grated Hershey Bar 3 Cups of Nuts (which we never add here!) Bake on an UNgreased (I usually spray mine w/ Pam however) at 375 deg for 6 min (and I'm sure I bake mine longer than 6 minutes, dont you just love someone who shares thier recipes, but never follows the recipe?) Make golf ball size dough balls This was a recipe that was popular, 6 years ago or more circulating as THE Mrs Fields choc chip recipe, my SIL's love this, and make it each year for Christmas... I'm thinking of making them too!! (since I dont see sil's anymore!!)
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Solifelike
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 5:53 pm
I have not had these in years, but they are wonderful!!! Ingredients 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup oil 1 each egg 1 tsp salt 3/4 tsp cream of tartar 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup rice krispies 1 cup oatmeal 3 1/2 cup flour Directions Mix all ingredients in order listed. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet and press flat with a sugared glass. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Makes 100 GOOD COOKIES! Servings: 100 servings
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Reader234
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:02 pm
OK Who Out Here knows an old fashioned recipe for Corn Flake Wreath Cookies? I get the feeling it could be that its the same as rice krispie Marshmellow treats, but with corn flakes, and green food coloring, and you shape them into wreaths and add red candy bits for berries?
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Jmm
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:07 pm
Reader, Is this the one? Cornflake Wreath Cookies 1/2 cup butter 3 cups miniature marshmallows 1/2 tsp almond extract 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp green food color 4 cups corn flakes red hot candies silver dragées Melt butter, add marshmallows, stirring until all marshmallows are melted. Add extracts and food coloring; stir until it is a uniform green color. When mixture is smooth, add corn flakes; mix well but gently so as not to crush the cornflakes. Form into wreath shapes on sheets of waxed paper, decorate with red cinnamon candies and silver dragées. Let cool.
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Eliz87
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:15 pm
I have always had a problem with flat cookies too, and I think it's because I prefer to use butter rather than oleo and shortening. One thing I've found that helps immensely is to roll the dough into walnut-size balls before baking them rather than dropping the dough onto the cookie sheet with spoons. For whatever reason, the cookies don't flatten out when you roll the dough into balls and bake them that way.
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Urgrace
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 1:17 am
My Mil told me that if you add extra flour in your buttery (chocolate chip, sugar, oatmeal) cookies, they will turn out softer and more chewy and not flat.
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Sanfranjoshfan
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 1:27 am
I don't think I've posted this, but it's a treasured old family recipe: Assemble a grilled cheese sandwich. Add 3 or 4 cooked fish sticks between the two slices of bread before grilling. Grill it. Eat it. Yum. It's quick (although a bit "white trash") but it can sure hit the spot!
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Ddr1135
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 7:40 am
LOL, Sanfran, that sounds good! I made this yesterday for the party last night. This is a great fix for Super Bowl Parties, etc. CORN DIP 2 cans Mexicorn (drained) 1/2 cup Mayo 1/2 cup Sour Cream 1/2 lb shredded Colby/Mont. Jack Cheese Tony Chachere Seasoning 3 stalks Green Onions, cut Mix and blend all.
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Eliz87
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 8:13 am
Sanfran, so-called "white trash" food is almost always good eatin'!! Here's a link... http://yumfood.net/recipes/categ/whitetrash.html
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Reader234
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 9:08 am
Thanks Jmm, that's it!! I'm going to also make what I call Chocolate Sugar Puff Cookies (so why do these cookies "puff" up and hold their shape when Choc Chip dont? I do remember Alton Brown did a whole show devoted to this topic, he made 3 -4 batches of cookies, you think I could find the info on the website - NOOOooo! 2Cup Flour 3/4 C Cocoa powder 1 tsp soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/4 Butter (2 sticks + 4T) 2 C sugar 2 Lg eggs 2tsp vanilla Cream bbutter, sugar add eggs (app 2 min) Add vanilla plus dry ing Chill 1 hour Then roll into balls, dip into powdered sugar than bake - Bake 8 min at 350
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Melfie1222
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 7:54 pm
ditto Eliz... that was a fun link to look at, too! Some of the comments in the recipes are hilarious... for Fried Bologna Sandwiches "This is for people who think a regular bologna sandwich is just too healthy"! And in the recipe where you combine a box of cooked macaroni and cheese with fried ground beef "(note: make sure all the grease gets into the macaroni and cheese)" My favorite "white trash" recipe is cooked spaghetti noodles fried with an obscene amount of chopped onions, let the noodles fry long enough til they get crispy, toss around and let some more noodles get crispy, etc. Eat with an obscene amount of ketchup. The house stinks of fried onions for at least a day afterward but, Yumm...
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Solifelike
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 8:06 pm
Here's a wonderful recipe for anyone who likes Feta Cheese. 2 Pre cooked Pizza Crust (Boboli or Walmart's pizza crusts) 1/2 lb hamburger browned (seasoned--I usually only add garlic, minced onions, salt, pepper) 2 lg, firm tomatoes diced 1/2 can of Black olives--sliced 1-2 Packages of Feta Cheese. (I know everyone buys differently, I buy the small square packages usually maybe 4 oz size?) Italian Dressing Dice Tomatoes, slice Olives. Mix crumbled feta, olives and tomatoes in a bowl and coat in Italian Dressing. (I use Zesty Ital.) Place in fridge and let chill. (Just makes it tastier.) Brown Meat, bake pizza crusts to warm and brown them. I usually brush on olive oil and seasoning and brown for 10 minutes. Spread Hamburger meat (somewhat cooled) over the pizza crusts, then the salad mixture on top of that. I usually pour the Italian juices left over in the bowl on the pizzas too. It's a wonderful, zesty meal.
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Lkunkel
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 9:56 am
Reader wrote "I do remember Alton Brown did a whole show devoted to this topic, he made 3 -4 batches of cookies, you think I could find the info on the website - NOOOooo!" Reader, I think you mean Episode EA1C05, Three Chips for Sister Marsha: Quote:Alton uses time travel to explain the mystery behind cookies with three kinds: the thin, the puffy and the chewy.
The episode last ran December 6, so it will be awhile on the reairing.
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Skootz
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 5:13 pm
I am cooking baby carrots for my Husbands Christmas dinner on the 26th. Does anyone have a simple recipe to spruce them up any? Thanks
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Reader234
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 5:16 pm
OMG!! Would you believe when I tried to access that it would come up as a page not able to display any longer (worded differently of course!!) Thanks Lkunkel!!
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Solifelike
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 5:48 pm
Skootz, some of the best carrots I have ever had were boiled with a bit of (true)Maple Syrup in the water. The flavor was wonderful..but it might not be something everyone likes.
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Lkunkel
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 6:24 pm
Reader? I rechecked my links and they worked. What did I do to have you get a 404 error??? Skootz: I cook my baby carrots in broth instead of water with some other seasonings (garlic and onion) in with them.
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Reader234
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 6:54 pm
LOL, sorry lkunkel, they work when YOU posted them, when I went searching form them days ago, they were unavailable (ya think people could read my mind!!) Skootz, dh loves his carrots roasted with onions!! (I like 'em raw!)
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Mygetaway
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 7:34 pm
We add a little brown or white sugar to our carrots when boiling, and some butter. It just makes them even sweeter.
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