Cookbook Project, Books #43 and 44
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ladysprite"The Great American Cookie Cookbook," Publications International
This was another Christmas present from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flakra, and one that has seen at least moderate use. It's huge, and it has an alarming variety of recipes - if anything, its biggest flaw is that there are so many different things packed into it, and it's *so* big (over 550 pages) that I don't know if I've ever actually managed to look through the whole thing. I'll sit down with it, start flipping through looking for a cookie recipe that catches my eye, and by the time I'm halfway through I've already made up my mind.
That's what happened this time, too - next time I promise I'll start at the back and look forward. But last week I wound up making Peanut Butter Jumbos, which is a rather ridiculous name for a rather nice oatmeal-peanut-butter cookie with chocolate chips and M&M's. Oddly enough, there's no flour in these, but the texture is still good (if a little dry for my taste), and they're huge enough that one cookie is an impressive dessert by itself. They're not the best cookies I've ever made (I'm more a fan of chewy cookies), but my husband's coworkers loved them....
"Simple Stir Fry Recipes," Betty Crocker
Yet another glossy checkout line pamphlet. Get used to it; I have a whole bunch of these. This one was a hand-me-down fromumbran's parents; when they moved we inherited a lot of their books. This cookbook is rather odd - in theory, a lot of the recipes in it look good, but when I actually sat down to pick one out, none of them truly caught my eye and seemed like a good idea for dinner.
But I finally decided to go ahead and make Southwest Tuna with Black Beans, mostly because the ingredients all sounded good enough (tuna, black beans, tomatoes, green chilies, lime, and garlic) and because it looked like a nice, quick dinner that would go pretty well with the other half of a loaf of Roasted Garlic, Potato, and Dill bread (When Pigs Fly is a dangerous, dangerous place, and the fact that I'll be spending at least a few days working right near the bakery is likely to spell, if not quite my doom, at least the doom of the five pounds I lost in the last two weeks). And it was pretty good. There was a little too much lime, and I think it'd be better over rice or in a burrito than just plain, the way the recipe suggested.
So. Two not-bad recipes. No serious winners, but they weren't too bad, either. And while this coming week is going to be crazy-busy, with any luck we'll manage a nice, fancy, sit-down dinner at the end of it, which'll be a nice change....
This was another Christmas present from
flakra, and one that has seen at least moderate use. It's huge, and it has an alarming variety of recipes - if anything, its biggest flaw is that there are so many different things packed into it, and it's *so* big (over 550 pages) that I don't know if I've ever actually managed to look through the whole thing. I'll sit down with it, start flipping through looking for a cookie recipe that catches my eye, and by the time I'm halfway through I've already made up my mind. That's what happened this time, too - next time I promise I'll start at the back and look forward. But last week I wound up making Peanut Butter Jumbos, which is a rather ridiculous name for a rather nice oatmeal-peanut-butter cookie with chocolate chips and M&M's. Oddly enough, there's no flour in these, but the texture is still good (if a little dry for my taste), and they're huge enough that one cookie is an impressive dessert by itself. They're not the best cookies I've ever made (I'm more a fan of chewy cookies), but my husband's coworkers loved them....
"Simple Stir Fry Recipes," Betty Crocker
Yet another glossy checkout line pamphlet. Get used to it; I have a whole bunch of these. This one was a hand-me-down from
umbran's parents; when they moved we inherited a lot of their books. This cookbook is rather odd - in theory, a lot of the recipes in it look good, but when I actually sat down to pick one out, none of them truly caught my eye and seemed like a good idea for dinner.But I finally decided to go ahead and make Southwest Tuna with Black Beans, mostly because the ingredients all sounded good enough (tuna, black beans, tomatoes, green chilies, lime, and garlic) and because it looked like a nice, quick dinner that would go pretty well with the other half of a loaf of Roasted Garlic, Potato, and Dill bread (When Pigs Fly is a dangerous, dangerous place, and the fact that I'll be spending at least a few days working right near the bakery is likely to spell, if not quite my doom, at least the doom of the five pounds I lost in the last two weeks). And it was pretty good. There was a little too much lime, and I think it'd be better over rice or in a burrito than just plain, the way the recipe suggested.
So. Two not-bad recipes. No serious winners, but they weren't too bad, either. And while this coming week is going to be crazy-busy, with any luck we'll manage a nice, fancy, sit-down dinner at the end of it, which'll be a nice change....
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Date: 2009-04-27 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-27 11:45 am (UTC)Peanut Butter Jumbos
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cup peanut butter
3 eggs
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
4 1/2 cups uncooked old fashioned oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup M&M's
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
Beat butter, sugars, peanut butter, and eggs in a large bowl until well blended. Blend in baking soda, vanilla, and oats until well mixed. Stir in chocolate chips and M&M's.
Scoop out about 1/3 cup cookie dough for each cookie. Place on prepared cookie sheets, spacing about 4" apart. Press each cookie to flatten slightly. Bake 15-20 minutes or until firm in center. Remove to wire racks to cool.
(Makes about 1 1/2 dozen cookies)