primitives discuss cookies

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Doug's stupid ex-wife.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Dec-14-09 12:02 AM
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If you had to choose 3 cookies to make for the holidays -- that would look nice on a dish and contrast with each other, which would you pick?

That's about my budget, dollar and energy wise this year.

I think I'll do the chocolate gingerbread house but can't decide on a combo for the cookie plate. Whaddya think?

This is the chocolate gingerbread recipe I use, btw. The kids like it better than straight gingerbread cookies:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Chocolate-Gingerbread-Men-334...

/oops

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Mon Dec-14-09 07:28 AM
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1. walnut crescents would always be my first choice
 
.. they're heavily coated with powdered sugar and have an interesting shape.
They're also easy to make small, one or two bite cookies often interest people.

with something chocolate covered, perhaps a bar cookie and maybe the peanut butter kiss cookies

but picking only 3 is impossible for me  - right now my dining room table is covered with Christmas baking!

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-17-09 01:28 PM
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17. Tesha, I made a pan of these last night and they went really quickly but I think I had them in the oven too long because they broke when I tried to roll them in sugar. So, this batch got sprinkled with sugar instread, still y***y. Do you think they were over baked? They don't brown much so it was hard to tell what "done" was this first time out.

Phentex  (1000+ posts)        Mon Dec-14-09 10:15 AM
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2. checkerboards, dipped choc mint cookies, and pinwheels

Sort of a black and white theme with patterns!

Arkansas Granny  (1000+ posts)      Mon Dec-14-09 11:53 AM
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7. We discovered a new recipe this year that will be a standard on our cookie plate from now on.

Outrageous Chocolate Cookies. http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/deliciously-outrage...

They taste like a rich, fudgy chocolate brownie and are very simple to make. The batter looks way too thin at first, but if you let it set for a few minutes it stiffens up a bit. They would look really pretty dusted with a little powdered sugar. We added walnuts to part of the batter and liked them both ways. You will want to make sure you have some cold milk in the fridge for these.

Grandma:

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Mon Dec-14-09 12:33 PM
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9. When I used to bake for the holiday I made pizzelles in both anise and chocolate. Very economical because one batch makes many, many. Do you have a pizzelle iron or can you borrow one?

Also I would make my grandma's little nut bon-bon cookies. Also very economical but very tedious to make. It's a cream cheese dough cut into small strips and then baked with a tiny piece of walnut in it. Shaken in powdered sugar when they are cooled. They were my dad's and my husband's favorites.

Finally I would make small fruit cakes and cut them into bite-sized pieces.

You know, that's very sad, and it grievously wounds franksolich's heart, the way Grandma uses the past tense when talking about Christmas cooking.

Grandma of course came from a large and affectionate family in Ohio, a family of Italianate origin, where tradition and Christmas were respected and observed.

But then alas nearly 13 years ago, Grandma threw all of that overboard, and got hitched to the snarling skinflint tightwad hippyhubby, and moved down to northeastern Oklahoma.

Nowadays Grandma observes Christmas merely by trying to be agreeable and pleasant as she and hippyhubby Alfred Packer sit and listen to "talking books," and Alfred Packer chews on bones.

It's very sad.  It makes franksolich disconsolate.  No woman should be that miserable.

In fact, franksolich is currently experiencing an increase in secretions from the lachrymal glands, thinking about the unhappy fate of Grandma, that he has to stop copying-and-pasting here.

There's some cookie recipes at this bonfire, though, if anybody's interested.

[GOBUCKS]

After their hilarious Thanksgiving holidays, Christmas should be really good. Poor stupid Beth should make some kind of puff pastry. Cookies might hurt when the loving family starts winging them at her, and it's hard to dodge a cookie in a camper.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a cookie. Remember the five D's: dodge, duck, dip, dive, and....dodge.

[The Village Idiot]

Go to the dollar store and buy 3 different kinds and colors of cookies. Sort nicely on cookie plate. The end.

Then spend more time making banana pudding.

[Chris]

How did Beth wind up in a travel trailer?  Is she on vacation, or did she invest her mortgage payments in carbon credits?

[debk]

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You know, that's very sad, and it grievously wounds franksolich's heart, the way Grandma uses the past tense when talking about Christmas cooking.

Grandma of course came from a large and affectionate family in Ohio, a family of Italianate origin, where tradition and Christmas were respected and observed.

But then alas nearly 13 years ago, Grandma threw all of that overboard, and got hitched to the snarling skinflint tightwad hippyhubby, and moved down to northeastern Oklahoma.

Nowadays Grandma observes Christmas merely by trying to be agreeable and pleasant as she and hippyhubby Alfred Packer sit and listen to "talking books," and Alfred Packer chews on bones.

It's very sad.  It makes franksolich disconsolate.  No woman should be that miserable.

In fact, franksolich is currently experiencing an increase in secretions from the lachrymal glands, thinking about the unhappy fate of Grandma, that he has to stop copying-and-pasting here.

There's some cookie recipes at this bonfire, though, if anybody's interested.

When I read her post, I thought it was sad too.

I would think it would be awfully hard on her coming from an Italian heritage to suddenly have no joy at holiday time.

Wonder whatever possessed her to marry someone so different from herself?

[GOBUCKS]

How did Beth wind up in a travel trailer?  Is she on vacation, or did she invest her mortgage payments in carbon credits?

Not sure. She lost her apartment in San Francisco, and said she was moving in with her mother, who is also having severe financial difficulty, out on some property they had in the California desert. She said that although her mother had always talked about having a home there, the only structure on the place was this trailer. But during her holiday disasters, she mentioned four TVs, which doesn't sound like a small trailer. I guess the only explanation is that DUmmies lie, all the time, they lie. Now she is cooped up out there in the middle of nowhere with her mother and her brother, who is at war with her. Looking forward to Christmas.

[The Village Idiot]

I saw an ad for 5 acres of Texas (desert?) for $3000. If 10 of us each buy a half-acre ($500) we can make it into a Galts Gulch!