“I KNOW HOW TO BOIL WATER; I JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S DONE": oatmeal

Showing posts with label oatmeal. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Chocolate ChipPeanut ButterOatmeal Cookies

1 stick butter, room temperature
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Pre-heat oven to 350°.
Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, peanut butter, and both sugars, on medium, until creamy (about 2-3 minutes).
Add the vanilla and egg and mix another minute or two.
Sprinkle in the baking soda and salt, and mix for a few seconds.
Add the flour gradually, a little at a time, until all is incorporated.
Add oats and mix in on low. Then add the chocolate chips and do the same.
Take a teaspoonful of dough, and roll into a 1-1 1/2" ball, and place on the parchment lined cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are light brown. Remove from oven and cool on pan for 5 minutes and then remove to cooling rack to cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container and..........

.........Enjoy! Élvez! Piacere! Gustirati! Radosť!

***I sometimes will decrease the chocolate chips to 1/2 cup and add in 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts----my FAVORITE addition.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

No Bake Cookies (Aunt Donna C.)

1 stick of butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup mílk
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
3-3 1/2 cups oatmeal

Add the first five ingredients into a sauce pan.
Bríng to a rollíng boíl and contine cooking for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Add peanut butter ínto the hot míxture and stír untíl melted.
Add ín vanílla.
Míx ín the oats and beat like fudge until glossy.
Drop by tablespoons onto wax paper.Let cool untíl set. (about 1/2 hour).

Enjoy! Élvez! Piacere! Gustirati! Radosť!

Friday, January 25, 2013

Oatmeal Waffles

1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup quick cook rolled oats
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
6 Tbsp. melted butter
2 Tbsp. brown sugar

In a large bowl, mix together flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a seperate small bowl,stir together eggs, milk, butter and brown sugar. Add to the flour mixture; stir until well blended. Pour batter onto lightly greased, pre-heated waffle iron. (this is where you need to know your own waffle iron and how much batter to pour). Close lid; do not open until you see less steam coming from sides of iron and lid raising slightly. The first batch is always the test batch. Time that test batch, and jot the time it takes to bake a well cooked waffle with your own iron. Serve with butter and maple syrup.

Enjoy! Élvez! Piacere! Gustirati! Radosť!

These are a very hearty waffle, sure to please overnight guest for a "Waffle Breakfast Wake Up" call.

Natural Resource

Beginnings

It was tradition in my family that soup was served almost every Sunday. There were only a handful of Sundays where soup wasn't part of the menu. On those days, we probably took a trip to Rivesville, West Virginia to visit with my Grandma, who usually had her own pot of soup on, and homemade bread to sink our teeth into. Sundays started with Mass, and after returning home, we would have breakfast. One of my favorite morning dishes was palachintas (yum). Mom would already have soup on the stovetop, and between noon and 2 o'clock it was time for the "soup feast." You could tell time at our house by the Sunday meal plan. A lot of them were based on the time of the football game, or other sporting event. Soup was always served as the noon time meal, followed by a hearty meatloaf, roast beef, stuffed cabbage, chicken paprikas, or the like, at suppertime (usually around 4 o’clock). It seemed like all we did on Sunday was eat and relax. You would wonder how you could be hungry for supper at 4 or 5 o’clock. Amazingly, you were. There were times I would remember that if there wasn’t enough roast beef to make you content, Mom would give you a slice of bread on your plate and cover it with gravy (Gravy Bread). What an added feast we thought we were getting. Little did we know, there probably wasn't enough meat for seconds, and who cared, because there was always plenty of gravy for that "oh so special" Gravy Bread. I really don’t remember a lot of desserts. I know we probably had them from time to time, but even if there were, I don’t know how one would find, or want to find, the room to fit it in. Well, all this talk is making me hungry. Go turn on the water and let’s get started!

Dedication

I dedicate this website to the 4 best cooks I know: My mother, who nourished me from the day of my first breath, both physically and spiritually; my mother-in-law, introducing me to her family favorites and customs; my husband’s grandmother, who had a unique, physical and verbal way of teaching me all her different techniques, to pass on traditional dishes; and last, and foremost, my heavenly mother, Mary, who is always by my side guiding me with spiritual intervention every step, and ingredient, of the way. It is with a deep love of my heritage that I also dedicate this collection of recipes to all the cooks who are just starting out and continuing the tradition of using recipes that are "family recipes." I hope that this website will serve to preserve some of my "family recipes" and to kindle an interest in traditional cooking among the younger families in a not always traditional way.

Enjoy!
With much love, Beve