Scrapbooking with Cricut & Basic Grey
Note the station wagon & cowboy hat!
Ever had popovers?
I never had popovers until my daughter got a kid’s cookbook for her birthday years ago. We made popovers (soooo easy) and they’ve become a favorite of my family’s. Easy to make and disappear in a flash!
Preheat oven to 375°
2 TBSP Butter, melted
1 Cup Flour
1 Cup Milk
2 Eggs
½ tsp Salt
Generously brush butter into 9 muffin cups using all the butter. Whisk the remaining ingredients into a thin batter. Fill muffin cups ½ to 2/3 full, dividing batter evenly. Bake 30 minutes. Do not open oven during baking or they will fall. Pierce each popover with a fork to keep them from collapsing. Serve with butter, honey or jam.
Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies
I know, I know …. they’re only chocolate chip cookies, right? Wrong!!! Years ago, Sunset Magazine set out to perfect the already favorite cookie. They created three different kinds and I tried them all. By far, the best of the three recipes was this one. In fact, this recipe is so uniquely yummy that every time I bake these for friends or get-togethers, I become elevated in status to Baker Supreme. Sadly, I cannot take credit for these crispy-yet-chewy morsels. I do, however, freely share the recipe with my dearest friends (including any of you darlings that actually read the stuff I post). Here it is. I promise you will not be disappointed. What is especially great about this recipe is that there is no mixing wet/dry ingredients in separate bowls! Hope you love them as much as I do, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me your feedback!
Chocolate chip cookies
(the best you ever had-promise)
1 cup softened butter
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts or pecans (optional-I like pecans best)
Preheat oven to 375. Using an electric mixer, beat butter for 30 seconds. Add both sugars, baking soda and salt; beat until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in flour, 1 cup at a time. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Bake 10-12 minutes, depending on how large you make your cookies. Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheet.
Note: Nuts are optional-when baking these for kids, I usually omit nuts, just in case someone’s allergic.
Mean OC Mom Scrapbooking with Cricut-Vintage Page
My mother and father’s first home in Yamagata, Japan. They met and married there during the Japanese occupation. My father had to lie about his residency to marry my Japanese mother because interracial marriages were illegal in his home state of Missouri. Because the Japanese economy was wiped out during the war, my serviceman father was, with his enlisted man’s salary, rich. They had a houseboy and a housekeeper and they built one of only 8 “American-style” houses in Yamagata.
Gettin’ Ready for Christmas Feast!
Royal Doulton Belvedere China (about 40 yrs old); Watson Dorian sterling from 1904.
Vintage chandelier above.
Homemade apple pie, crispy-warm from the oven, melty vanilla ice cream on the side.
