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….
LOOKING FOR A LITTLE ACTION
Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on August 9, 2010 – 5:13 am -So things are really heating up here on the back 40. The boys have lost the velvet coats off their antlers and they are starting to look around for the cute little does. It’s fun to watch them spar with each other, but that won’t be for a few more months. For now, they are satisfied with “being seen” in the neighborhood and showing off their racks. This handsome devil was out off the back of my deck this morning trying to look cool and studly..
