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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on August 16, 2010 – 6:06 am -

It’s been hot here in the mountains and as a result, I haven’t wanted to even look at my oven, much less turn it on! I don’t have (or usually need) air conditioning, so I try to cook outside as much as possible in July for the few weeks when it really heats up here. This weekend we had a thunderstorm and it rained like crazy for about an hour cooling everything off to the point that I felt like baking. So since my brain wasn’t up to the task of thinking up something creative to make with all of the beautiful berries that are available this time of year, I made chocolate chip cookies and they were amazing! The recipe is from Martha Stewart and you know that woman knows how to bake cookies! Here’s the ingredient list:

1 lb unsalted butter, softened
3 cups light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 t vanilla
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 t salt
2 t baking soda
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Cream the butter until smooth

add the sugars and beat until smooth again


Just a little side note here people, I have a rather common mental disorder called obsessive compulsive disorder (see the post about my yellow chalkboard below). As a result, when I looked on the screen of my camera and saw how cool the picture of my mixer in motion was, I had to take more and more and well, more. So it would appear that there are many more pictures of my mixer in motion in our futures (sorry)
Beat in eggs, one at a time and the vanilla



Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda




Slowly beat the flour mixture into the butter/sugar mixture

fold in the chocolate chips

then transfer the dough to a large sheet of plastic wrap

cover and refrigerate for four hours

Just look at all that buttery, chocolatey goodness…
When you take it out of the refrigerator, drop it by the ice cream scoop onto parchment lined cookie sheets


Then bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 8 to 10 minutes…

YUM..
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YELLOW CHALKBOARD

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on August 12, 2010 – 5:46 am -

This post is a confession of sorts about an obsession of sorts, my yellow chalkboard. It is also in honor of the color Yellow and Jenny Matlock’s Rainbow Summer School. For more yellow posts, click here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

A few years ago, I bought a yellow chalkboard to post menus on when I have parties or cater weddings.

Isn’t it cute?

Anyhoo, it’s become quite an obsession. I started by listing what I was planning on serving for large parties and weddings and then cooking from the board so I wouldn’t forget anything. Later, I found I needed it to make dinner for myself. Now, I sometimes find myself writing things on it like “coffee, toast, jam”. Can you say, obsessive compulsive?

While I’m airing my dirty laundry, so to speak, I have another obsession with these dirty, disrespectable old yellow cowboy boots that I just refuse to replace. I cleaned the horse manure off them for these shots:

What’s that you’re saying? Time for some new boots, Rocky? Yeh, yeh, I know..maybe next spring….

I also have a really old, kind of rusty looking pickup truck that I drive around town. It’s not yellow, though, so I’ll save that for another time when we know one another better….

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ORANGE ICING ON A LEMON CAKE

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on August 5, 2010 – 5:48 am -

This post is in honor of the color Orange. For more original orange posts, click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

I’ve posted a picture of this cake that my friend and business partner made in an earlier post, but in case you want to make one of your very own, here’s how:

This recipe actually made two small bundt cakes.

Ingredients:

3 eggs
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
1 8 oz jar lemon curd
large package of lemon instant pudding
1 boxed yellow cake mix

Beat the above ingredients until well blended

Pour batter into two small buttered/floured bundt cake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean…

Let cakes cool completely.

Mix the following together:

2 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup orange juice
couple of drops of yellow and red food coor to make the glaze orange

Drizzle the glaze on the cakes and garnish with fresh flowers of your choice. Here’s how they turned out:

It’s a very impressive cake with a very little amount of work!

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