peaNUT buTTer cOOkies

Whenever I say coookies, I always think of the cereal COOOOkie Crisps! Do you remember that cereal? Anyway, another love of the Butrimas' is COOKIES! My husband's favorite is chocolate chip. I, on the other hand, do not discriminate :-). I really love peanut butter cookies, and have been itching to make them recently. So after looking up a few recipes, I found this one on allrecipes.com.
I really love Allrecipes. Anytime I think of something I want to make homemade, I search Allrecipes and they never fail to have at least 3 different ways to make what I'm thinking of. They all turn out well, too.
After going to the store to get baking powder and soda (and after cooking dinner) I went to work.

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter (I only had one stick of unsalted so I used one stick of unsalted and one stick of regular butter, and omitted the salt)

1 cup crunchy peanut butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt (omitted)

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

I also added a little less than 1 tsp of vanilla extract and a half of a (small) bag of mini semi sweet-chocolate chips - can you guess who those were for?! :-)

Directions:
1. Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Beat in eggs.
2. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir into batter. Put batter in refrigerator for 1 hour. (Who can wait a whole hour?! I only refrigerated for about 20 minutes!) 3. Roll into 1 inch balls and put on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork, making a crisscross pattern. (The dough was so sticky that I was not able to make them pretty with the fork.) Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until cookies begin to brown. Do not over-bake.

It felt like I was making cookies for an hour! It made so many cookies!

They came out a little flat and thin. I do have a baking book I could use to research how to fix this problem, however they are yummy either way! Pretty good for my 1st made-from-scratch peanut butter cookie, huh? Looks there will be happy co-workers tomorrow @ TE & Landstar! Haha!

mmm, breakfast!

Mmmm do you smell that?! Biscuit, bacon, eggs and cheese, YUM!

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Bron and I love breakfast! We could eat it for every meal, easily. This recipe seemed like it would be a perfect, quick breakfast for a Saturday morning.

I had a Christmas potluck last week and decided to bring these in for the breakfast menu. The biscuits seemed easy to make and had a cute presentation. Plus, who doesn't love bacon egg and cheese ANYTHING?!

They were indeed very easy to make. I did have to cook them a little longer then the 10 minutes, but I may have put more egg in them than the original poster.

They went over well at work and I made them again the next morning for breakfast. My husband loved them!! Next time I will make a few adjustments. I might try a different cheese or biscuit and try sausage instead of bacon. Uwww how yummy would a sausage gravy and biscuits version be? Oh the possibilities :-)

BeRRy FuN

Last Friday night was craft night (with a side of Harry Potter, of course).

Okay, so before you make assumptions to my social life, haha...I have been wanting to see all of the Harry Potter movies for a few weeks now. While my husband was at his friend's house the other night he brough home all 6 blue-ray discs. Now that's a nice cercey! (Cercey: a surprise you bring someone back while away.) So I was in the middle of a Harry Potter marathon week the week I did this craft.

I saw this berry initial wreath on Pinterest. I knew from the moment I saw it that I had to make it, and have it hanging on our door this holiday season!

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While at Michael's getting items for the mantle, I asked my (much craftier) sister what kind of berries I should use and where they were located in the store. Lucky me, she had previously purchased a couple bags of berries from the dollar store! Berries...check! After grabbing my "B" from the wooden craft section, getting some silver ribbon because apparently Michael's doesn't sell burlap :(, and borrowing the hot glue gun from my sister I had a craft to put together!

I don't have any experience working with a glue gun, so there was a little trial and error at first. But, it was easy to get the hang of. One layer of berries was not enough, so I layered up!

It was really easy and didn't take much time at all. Before I knew it, most was covered. I just had to go around and fill in the white spots and edges. I can get used to being crafty!



Alright, second Pinterest craft down. It was time for the ribbon and hanging! Here she is, the final product!

Now, it's off to the store for a "W" to make my wonderful sister one! :)

Thanks for reading! I will try to make my next post a little more entertaining!

MeRRy MeRRy... the Pinterest way

A little thing called PINTEREST has taken over my creative side. There are so many ideas on Pinterest, it is amazing. It also makes me realize my age - very domesticated things are on Pinterest :).
With it being mine and my husband's first Christmas in our new home and our first Christmas as a married couple, I am definitely in the Christmas spirit! So when I came across this picture on Pinterest I became inspired!

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I went shopping with my mom and husband on Black Friday and found the garland. It was $4 at Target. It's a little...stiff, but it just takes some time to straighten it out and unwrap the branches. We also bought twinkling lights from Target. They did have garland that came with lights, and in hindsight that is what we should have chosen, but I wanted to create everything myself. So I got it home and went to work. Something was definitely missing. So I got out the Christmas decorations, found the red, cream and silver balls and went to work. I also found some ribbon I used last year for wrapping presents and added that to the garland.  A few days later my sister and I went to Michaels so that I could get something similar to the candle sticks in the picture above. I found really cute red candle sticks 40% off and my sister suggested the reindeer.

End result:

I look forward to creating more of my Pinterest pins and blogging about other random things the Butrimas' get into!

Until next time... as Ellen says "Be kind to one another".