Daily Archives: November 13, 2011
Oatmeal-Blueberry Cookies
Continuing my blueberry fest…
I wondered what would happen if I substituted blueberries for raisins in a traditional oatmeal cookie. The results were tasty and moist. The blueberry flavor was intense. I used frozen blueberries and left them frozen to keep the dough from turning into ‘smurf dough’.
Oatmeal-Blueberry Cookies 
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 1 cup flour
- 2 cups rolled oats (long cooking)
- 1 cup blueberries
baking sheet & bowl
In bowl, cream together butter & sugar, add egg and mix well. Add cinnamon, vanilla, soda, baking powder and flour. Slowly mix in oats until well blended. Gently fold in blueberries. Drop onto cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, until golden. Makes 24 cookies. Refrigerate.
Scanning through the archives I see that I had a similar idea, but with apples. Must have been in an apple mood that week:
Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
Made another batch of ricotta and made it into a big bowl of cheese stuffing for pasta. Mixed some Italian sausage into it as well. We had enough to stuff 14 manicotti, about 30 jumbo shells, and still had some leftover. The stuffing included some chopped spinach, a couple of eggs, shredded mozzarella, Parmesan, various dried herbs along with the crumbled sausage and the diced onion the meat cooked with. Quite a bowlful.
We have that bunch of shells dressed out with sauce and put away for later dinners.
Mrs J voted for the tubes for dinner tonight. We have several more of these stuffed and put away along side of the jumbo shells.
Twenty minutes or so at 400 was long enough to warm these through. Much longer and the exposed pasta will dry out and get hard.
It takes just a few to make a plateful. Oh, and I mentioned there was still some of the cheese stuffing mix? I found a use for that.
Biscuit pr0n
Buttermilk biscuits using the buttermilk that was a byproduct of the butter making I indulged myself in a few days ago. Mmm… homemade butter:
The buttered biscuits were nice but not what I had in mind when the biscuit plot was conceived.
Mmm…biscuits ‘n gravy! Now, that was some nice breakfast pr0n for a Sunday morning, eh?
My New Favorite Blog
Okay, all together now….aaawwww!
Arthur Recreates Scenes from Movies
Photo by Arthur's Mom (Emily Cleaver)
Baby Arthur recreates “American Beauty”
Photo by Arthur's Mom (Emily Cleaver)
Arthur recreates “Rambo”.
I believe a star is born…and Arthur is pretty darn cute, too. What a clever idea. Can’t wait to see what Arthur’s mom has him recreate next. Can I suggest “Eat Drink Man Woman” ?
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