The weather yesterday was the perfect autumn day weather--sun, just enough warmth, and the delightful smell of leaves (nevermind that it's the decaying leaves!). Today is just a blah fall day--gray skies, chilly, blah. And it seems to be threatening rain.
I'm feeling a cooking urge of late. There are three dinners I've planned out in my head, but due to the "rotation" of cooking at our places, I have to wait three weeks to make them all! Monday I'll be making a mini-Thanksgiving feast--turkey (either a roasted breast or a Jennie-O oven ready turkey, depending on the cost), taters, stuffing (maybe), green bean casserole, and gravy. Sadly, the gravy will not be homemade due to the lack of really cooking a turkey (no pan drippings!). I might throw in a store-bought pumpkin pie to spoil my roommates silly (like I'm not already). The week after I'm going to make charred chile rellenos ala Rachael Ray. They're a healthier version of the fried and stuffed with cheese chile rellenos popular at Mexican restaurants. That should be tasty and a hit (we like the Mexican food in our apartment, along with spicy, though there is a limit on that...). Lastly, I've mentally planned a mini-Christmas type dinner with ham, my heart-attack potatoes, and some green veggie (green beans are a forerunner right now, though I do love me some asparagus!).
In addition to cooking, I'm feeling the baking urge. I want to make checkerboard cookies, shortbread cutout cookies with buttercream frosting, snowballs, spritz cookies, and pumpkin oatmeal raisin cookies. I want to make sugar cookie cutouts, but I'm at a loss for a good tasting sugar cookie recipe. Anyone have a good sugar cookie recipe? Or any other cookie recipes I should try?
That's all for now, I've made myself hungry :-)
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I don't have a fail-safe sugar cookie recipe, but you can always fall back on allrecipes.com. You really do sound like you spoil your roomies since you enjoy cooking and baking. I hope they appreciate it.
If you want to cheat, you can always use the ready-made Pillsbury sugar cookie dough in a tube. It's very good and tasty. After all, the fun of cutout cookies is the decorating.
I've tried the Pillsbury tube o' dough, and didn't have much luck rolling it out. I might try it again since I have vastly more counterspace this year compared to last.
And yes, I'm quite the spoiler, in many ways. They don't know how lucky they are.
Here's the simple but good recipe I used last week when I made some for my house. Some people ate over a dozen cookies, so you know they were good.
I prefer rolling them out super thin (even thinner than a quarter of an inch thick) - it almost makes them crispy, which I really love. I also rolled out a huge cookie in the shape of a heart and went all out decorating it, so you can make big, extravagant cookies if you want.
1/2 c. butter
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar. Mix in egg. Sift together dry ingredients and add to mixture. Mix in vanilla (weird that this happens so late, but it worked fine when I did it). Chill dough (although I was crunched for time and didn't and it worked out fine, so this isn't necessary). Roll on floured surface to desired thickness and cut. Bake on lightly greased cooking sheet at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
I'll have to try that! The problem I always have with sugar cookies is that they're flavorless...in a bad way. (I know that sugar cookies are not the most flavorful of cookies to begin with.)
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