Anonymous
05/05/2012 20:04
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My chocolate chip cookies, aka Hillary's chips. Back in 1992, during the "I could have stayed home and baked cookies" brouhaha during the election, the Post printed the chocolate chip cookies recipes of Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. I never tried Barbara's, but Hillary's have been an enduring winner for me over the years. I still have that yellowed piece of newsprint containing this recipe:
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (butter flavor)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
It's the Crisco that makes the difference!
You don't know diddly about baking. Butter, butter, butter. I write this as someone who has spent twenty years developing the perfect chocolate chip candied walnut cookie recipe, which I will not, of course, be sharing.
You sound fat. Keep your damn recipe!
Anonymous
05/05/2012 13:59
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My chocolate chip cookies, aka Hillary's chips. Back in 1992, during the "I could have stayed home and baked cookies" brouhaha during the election, the Post printed the chocolate chip cookies recipes of Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. I never tried Barbara's, but Hillary's have been an enduring winner for me over the years. I still have that yellowed piece of newsprint containing this recipe:
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (butter flavor)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
It's the Crisco that makes the difference!
You don't know diddly about baking. Butter, butter, butter. I write this as someone who has spent twenty years developing the perfect chocolate chip candied walnut cookie recipe, which I will not, of course, be sharing.
That's a shame to be an experienced cook and not willing to share recipes and cooking tips. I'm so appreciative for all the wonderful cooks--both young and old--I know who have shared their favorites and specialties over the years. I've learned so much, have many recipes in the handwriting of dear friends and relatives, and happily pass them on to others!
Anonymous
05/05/2012 13:43
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Lamb Chops
Seasoned with
Olive oil
Worchestershire Sauce
Lemon Pepper Seasoning SALT
Garlic Powder
Rosemary
OMG like crack!
Seasoned with
Olive oil
Worchestershire Sauce
Lemon Pepper Seasoning SALT
Garlic Powder
Rosemary
OMG like crack!
Anonymous
05/05/2012 13:30
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:My chocolate chip cookies, aka Hillary's chips. Back in 1992, during the "I could have stayed home and baked cookies" brouhaha during the election, the Post printed the chocolate chip cookies recipes of Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. I never tried Barbara's, but Hillary's have been an enduring winner for me over the years. I still have that yellowed piece of newsprint containing this recipe:
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (butter flavor)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
It's the Crisco that makes the difference!
You don't know diddly about baking. Butter, butter, butter. I write this as someone who has spent twenty years developing the perfect chocolate chip candied walnut cookie recipe, which I will not, of course, be sharing.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 12:12
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:I'm not trying to be mean or anything but I often wonder about this. People who say they are cooking then use a canned soup mixture or some other box stuff? One of my neighbors told me she made a to die for apple pie, intgrigued, I asked what did you use. She proceeds to tell me frozen sliced apples she bought at Giant and the premade crust!
They're not cooking from scratch, but they're cooking. Cut them some slack. We all probably cut corners in some areas of life.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 11:29
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Oh get over yourself.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 09:46
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lasagna made with real cheeses - no cottage cheese.
who puts cottage cheese in lasagna? my grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now!
Cheapskates/cooks looking for low fat substitutes.
Yes, that would be my MIL.
DH had never had lasagne with anything but cottage cheese before he met me.
OK, so people who don't actually know how to cook a decent meal...kind of like people who make casserole's with Campbells's Soup.
I'm not trying to be mean or anything but I often wonder about this. People who say they are cooking then use a canned soup mixture or some other box stuff? One of my neighbors told me she made a to die for apple pie, intgrigued, I asked what did you use. She proceeds to tell me frozen sliced apples she bought at Giant and the premade crust!
Anonymous
05/05/2012 09:10
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lasagna made with real cheeses - no cottage cheese.
who puts cottage cheese in lasagna? my grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now!
Cheapskates/cooks looking for low fat substitutes.
Yes, that would be my MIL.
DH had never had lasagne with anything but cottage cheese before he met me.
OK, so people who don't actually know how to cook a decent meal...kind of like people who make casserole's with Campbells's Soup.
I think it's partly a generational thing. Depends on when you were learning to cook and the available recipes.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 07:54
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lasagna made with real cheeses - no cottage cheese.
who puts cottage cheese in lasagna? my grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now!
Cheapskates/cooks looking for low fat substitutes.
Yes, that would be my MIL.
DH had never had lasagne with anything but cottage cheese before he met me.
OK, so people who don't actually know how to cook a decent meal...kind of like people who make casserole's with Campbells's Soup.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 05:59
Subject: Re:Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
(When I serve this dish, people often ask for thirds! To serve 6 - 8, I double the recipe. For 12 people, I use 18 ears of corn but only double the milk and butter.)
Stewed Corn
6 ears fresh Silver Queen corn (or other sweet white corn--not yellow)
½ stick butter (not margarine)
½ cup whole milk
1 teaspoon salt
Shuck corn and remove all silks. Finely cut the corn. (With a sharp knife, vertically slice each row of kernels. Then cut off about ½ of the kernels, going round the cob. Repeat.) With back of knife, scrape juice from each cob. Place in double boiler. Add other ingredients. Cover and cook over gently boiling water for approximately 1 ½ hours. If needed, add more milk. Serves 4.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 02:33
Subject: Re:Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
My mom made lasagna with cottage cheese. I never had it with any other kind until I was in college and had some at a restaurant.
Anonymous
05/05/2012 00:52
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:Chocolate peanutbutter cheesecake
fried hominy with a touch of molasses
and my lasagne is to die for
You do it all don't you TSFG? To cook like this, AND be able to crush it in the sex department... You are the man.
Anonymous
05/03/2012 13:34
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lasagna made with real cheeses - no cottage cheese.
who puts cottage cheese in lasagna? my grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now!
My MIL.
Anonymous
05/03/2012 13:34
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
My chocolate chip cookies, aka Hillary's chips. Back in 1992, during the "I could have stayed home and baked cookies" brouhaha during the election, the Post printed the chocolate chip cookies recipes of Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. I never tried Barbara's, but Hillary's have been an enduring winner for me over the years. I still have that yellowed piece of newsprint containing this recipe:
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (butter flavor)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
It's the Crisco that makes the difference!
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (butter flavor)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
It's the Crisco that makes the difference!
Anonymous
05/03/2012 13:24
Subject: Signature Dish aka the best thing I ever cooked
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lasagna made with real cheeses - no cottage cheese.
who puts cottage cheese in lasagna? my grandmother is rolling over in her grave right now!
Cheapskates/cooks looking for low fat substitutes.
Yes, that would be my MIL.
DH had never had lasagne with anything but cottage cheese before he met me.