I was starting to get my appetite back this afternoon, so I went to the kitchen for a snack. I thought some Triscuits and Camembert Cheese sounded yummy. The only thing was I wanted the Camembert a little melty, so I thought I would pop the cheese and crackers in the microwave for about 15 seconds. Not a good idea! My melty snack turned into a stinky snack all too quickly. Lesson learned never ever put Camembert Cheese in the microwave unless you want to clean a stinky microwave. Oh well, they can’t all be kitchen successes 😉
White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Last week I made a batch of White Chocolate Apricot Oatmeal Cookies from my Hershey’s cookbook, and they were so delicious. I decided to split the batter after I added the White Chocolate Chips, but before I added in the dried fruit. I ended up making one batch of White Chocolate Apricot, and one batch of White Chocolate Cranberry. For each batch I added in 1/4 cup of chopped dried fruit. I also use a melon baller as my cookie scoop, that way I get bite sized cookies, and it makes a few more too.
The White Chocolate Cranberry were my favorite, but I think this recipe would work with just about any dried fruit and chip combination. I thought about making a Dark Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal cookie, or how about a White Chocolate Blueberry Cookie? Now I’m getting hungry 🙂
How is your Christmas baking going? Happy Baking 😉
Todays Cleaning Might Have to Wait
I was doing so good yesterday, I even got a little ahead on the Christmas cleaning. This morning, I woke up with a migraine at 2:00 a.m., and it is still with me. I’ve taken some medicine with a large cup of coffee. Thade got chocolate milk with breakfast, to keep him a little quieter. Dylan is happily snacking on Sweet Potato Puffs, so at the moment he is slightly quiet, which really helps. How I wish I could crawl back into bed and start all over again, minus the migraine.
Thanks Hubby
Guess what my hubby brought home today? Two huge 2008 Calendars, I love them, and him too 🙂 He got me one large desk-top calendar, and one to go on the wall. I’m so excited, because now I can start menu planning, and party planning for next year.
First Batch of Christmas Cookie Plates
I found these cute paper Snowman Plates at Walgreens 2 for $1.00, it fit my budget, and made my Christmas Cookie Plates easy to assemble.
Last Friday the boys and I delivered three dozen cookies to the hospital, and three dozen cookies to our Doctor’s office. I also had a dozen left to take over to our neighbor’s house.
Thade had so much fun taking the cookies around, and he told everyone “Very Christmas” 😉 We had talked about saying “Merry Christmas”, but I guess he heard “Very Christmas”. Thade even got a Candy Cane from Susan (our favorite receptionist) in exchange for the cookies, he was thrilled.
On the way to the car Thade was proudly carrying his Candy Cane, and we were talking about sharing and giving to others during the Holidays. He turned to me and said “Mom it feels good to share, because you get Candy Canes.” He is just too cute sometimes. I’m glad he felt good about sharing, and he was pretty pleased about that Candy Cane too 😉