Chicken Stroganoff ...p77

Pleasantly simple and absoLUtely delicious.  What more can I say?

Well, ok, for posterity's sake, 

I'll tell you Tricia's favorite 

mushroom joke.

This is for you, Trish!

A mushroom goes into a bar and sits down to order a drink. 

The bartender walks over and says, ''I'm sorry sir, but we don't serve your kind here.''

The mushroom sits back and asks ,''Why not? I'm such a fun guy (fungi)!"

Hardy Appetit!

Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies ...p101

Ok, I'm prejudiced.  Of all the cookies I've ever had these are my main weakness...so this was Wedding Cookie #3.  Equestrian and friend, Donna Glanville, gave me this recipe years ago so to her, I will always be grateful both for my time with her horses and eating these cookies in her kitchen....

Spend the time beating the cream; it makes a difference to the texture.  And you don't have to use the ice cream scoop unless you're indulgent!  I make up for down-sizing them by having twice as many......

And, incidentally, if you've already tried to make these and wondered at the small amount of flour - your instincts were right - the recipe in the book has a typo.  Be sure to correct it (recipe follows).

Hardy Appetit!

Classic Peanut Butter Cookies ...p99

Cookie #2 taken to the wedding.  These went extremely fast - one of the best peanut butter cookie recipes I've tried, but I'll have to let you know how they compare to Kimberly's recipe when I attempt another batch.

I refrigerated the raw batch for about an hour before rolling into the little balls and flattening - they made perfect little circles and I was so excited!  I know, it's silly, but so often I get the cracking around the edges that drives me nuts!


As the recipe says, do not overbake.  Set your timer for the 10 minutes as part of their delectability is their softness.

Hardy Appetit!

O-So-GOOD Oatmeal Cookies ...p99

Appropriately this recipe was submitted to the cookbook by KATIE....and I just noticed the title as I typed, wondering if it has any bearing to her new family? 

The addition of instant pudding to these O-So-GOOD cookies make them literally melt in your mouth - something I'm not used to with oatmeal cookies.  More cakelike in texture than your average oatmeal cookie perhaps because I omitted the chocolate chips since I was also making chocolate chip cookies.

My recommendation - double it!

Hardy Appetit!

The Wedding

There's nothing like a wedding to bring together family and friends, along with their appetites, in love and joy!   Anticipating plenty of hungry young adults and their budding families assembled together for two days in the same hotel, I decided to try a few cookie recipes to put out in the meeting room for snacking...Ok, maybe adding sweets to the kiddoes was like adding fuel to a fire, but it was a sweet celebration! and didn't Katie make a beautiful bride and Seth a handsome groom?   I wish you lots of sweets and just enough sours in your life together to appreciate it all.