Welcome to My Kitchen: Treats for the cookie jar or freezer
27.09.11
When our grandson Matt comes to scourge, he has learned to check out the freezer when he’s looking for a snack to eat. That’s because I’ve cultured to divide cookie batches into smaller sized Ziploc bags to tuck away for his visits — or to send along with his parents when they are present to visit him at college. For the past two years I tried out a lot of cookie recipes on Matt and his tennis side and now that he’s studying at American University, I want to maintain the cookie tradition.
Last weekend I grabbed a bag of Macaroon Sugar Cookies out of the freezer when we were growing to one of grandson Josh’s soccer games and almost this instant after we got back to Cambridge, I had a note from Kate asking for the recipe because Josh couldn’t find credible that there was a “mystery” ingredient (instant mashed potato flakes) in the cookies that he had moral eaten. Josh is Matt’s younger chum and since he is a sophomore at Queen Anne County High Devotees, and still relatively close by, I can see a lot of cookie baking in my future.
Source: Dover Post
Small appliances make easy work in the kitchen
19.09.11
Mountford, a anchorwoman and former manager at the "cooking for one or two" forum on eons.com, an online community for coddle boomers, says items such as a toaster oven, a microwave and a uneventful cooker can make easy work of small meals.
TOASTER OVEN
The toaster oven is Mountford's go-to pawn in the kitchen when she's not hosting friends for dinner. She often roasts vegetables in her toaster oven along with a chicken boob or fish for a quick meal.
Mountford says the key to using a toaster oven for cooking is getting one extensive enough to hold small cookie sheets, which are perfect for a few vegetables or a segment of meat.
"I use it at least once a day," Mountford says of her Cuisinart-brand toaster oven.
Although her toaster oven doesn't have a convection oven column, she nsays it works fine. But she says the toaster oven must have a thermostat so you can curb temperatures, particularly if you use it for roasting.
For vegetables, slice up some squash, peppers and potatoes, or anything you favour, sprinkle with grapeseed or olive oil, add salt and pepper and put them in a 425-situation toaster oven until caramelized to your liking.
Source: Bellingham Herald