Sugar cookies!!!

So blame it on my pregnancy but I woke up this morning and immeditaly wanted cookies. I couldn't decide on what kind so I made three!! I needed to kill a few hours before the Patriot game anyway! Baking is alwaya a great way to calm my nerves!

These sugar cookies! Are some of the best sugar cookies I have ever had! They taste just like subways cookies!! Soft, moist, and chewy!! Oh so good!!

INGREDIENTS
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1 cup butter
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar



DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.
Cream together sugar and butter. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla.
Add flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Stir.
Form dough into walnut size balls, roll in sugar and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Don't flatten. Bake 10 to 11 minutes, until tops are cracked and just turning color.

I do think the next time I make these I might use just a tad bit less flour! I taste just a hint of flour--but agian they are good!!

Mrs. Sigg's Snickerdoodles

I got this recipe from All recipe's! It has over 1600 reviews with a 5 1/2 star rating! They turned out great! They have great flavour and are super chewy!

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.
Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 8 minutes, or until set but not too hard. Remove immediately from baking sheets.

Chewy Peanut butter cookies!

This cookies are so moist and chewy I can't stop eating them!! They were even still so soft the next day when cookies tend to get a bit dry. Definitely a keeper!! My Dh asked me to add chocolate chips to half the batch!

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 to 1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla



DIRECTIONS
Mix margarine, peanut butter, sugar, vanilla and egg. Stir in baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour. I combine all the dry ingredients and then gradually add it to the peanut butter mix.
Chill dough for several hours or overnight. I usually only chill for a few hours.
Roll dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Place 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Flatten crisscross style with a fork dipped sugar. (Don't worry when you flatten and they seem small they expand as they are cooking.
Bake for 8 to 9 minutes at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). DON'T OVERCOOK!!! It's the key to them staying moist and soft. They will seem a little like they are done when you take them out. They will set as they cool. Cool them on a cooling rack as soon as you can take them off without messing them up.

Chicken Fettucini Alfredo

8 oz. fettucini noddles
1/4 c. butter
1 c. whipping cream
3/4 c. Parmesan cheese, grated
1/2 tsp. salt
Pepper

Cook noodles according to package directions. melt butter until melted. Stir in cream, Parmesan cheese and salt. Heat, stirring occasionally until smooth (sauce will be thin). Drain noodles, toss with cream mixture until evenly coated (mixture thickens in a few minutes). Serve with Parmesan cheese and pepper.

Add Chicken, Scallops, crab etc. all are great with this simple but awesome sauce! My husband loves this! I make it with Chicken and Mushrooms. You can double the ingredients for more sauce. The sauce gets really thick so is not good for leftovers.

Lasagna

Our first Christmas dinner as Husband and wife!



I use the lasagna noodles that are already for the oven...you don't need to boil them first. I think they are called oven ready lasagna noodles...

2lbs hamburger,
garlic powder to taste
1 1/2 Jars spaghetti sauce--I usually use the garlic and onion or mushroom kind. Preggo
small chopped onion
ricotta cheese--part skim
large container or 1 1/2-2 blocks cream cheese
and a mixture of shredded cheese--like cheddar and Colby jack
shredded Parmesan cheese For top of Lasagna


I brown the hamburger with chopped onion, and garlic powder. Add the Spaghetti sauce to the meat and put aside.

I then put a layer of noodles on on the bottom of the pan, then a row of hamburger. I take spoon fulls of the ricotta cheese and cream cheese and drop them on the hamburger..(like cookie dough) flatten the drops a bit--usually filling the layer with every other cheese. Then top that layer with the mixture of shredded cheese.
place a row of noddles over that and start again. Top the last layer with the Parmesan cheese.

Cover and cook for about 45 minutes. Leaving it uncovered for the last 10 to 15 minutes. Add fresh mushrooms on the layers if you want as well.

The cream cheese is really what makes this. Kevin is not a huge fan of cream cheese but this is his favorite thing I make. Don't go over board with the cream cheese however.




Review: I have been making this for years and it continues to be one of both My Husband and I's favorite dish.

Pot Roast

2.5 -4 pounds beef roast
1 packet Montreal seasoning
1 packet dry onion soup mix
2 cup water
3 carrots, chopped
1 onion, Halved
5 potatoes, peeled and cubed


DIRECTIONS
Take the chuck roast and season with Montreal seasoning. Let marinade in fridge for about 15 minutes. . Brown on all sides in a large skillet over high heat.
Place in the slow cooker and add the onion halves on bottom of dish, soup mix, water, carrots, potatoes. Placing the potatoes on top of half the roast and the carrots on he other half. This helps the potatoes not take on a carrot flavour.
Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours.

I used a 3 lb roast and cooked it for 8 hours

Reviews: My Husband and I both thought this was Delicious and super easy to make!! The meat was so tender you didn't need a knife to cut it. The house smelled yummy all day. I took some of the juices from the slow cooker and thickened it with cornstarch to make a gravy.

It's Xmas baking time!!!!

So this weekend we had a huge snow/ice storm so I was forced to bake all weekend!! I jammed to Christmas music, had the tree lit and just baked....I got a lot done, but I still have a few other things to do! I need to make my moms cut out and spritz cookies yet. Below are all the things I baked this weekend.