Kitchen Chaos

Our 4-H group starts off each year with having a cookie contest for the first meeting. The kids make the cookies and then judge but there are 2 divisions, 12 and under and 13 and up. Then for snack they have the cookies. Can you say "sugar high"? Daisy made her cookies with almost no help - I got stuff off of high shelves for her and put them in and out of the oven but that is all I did. She did Cowgirl cookies that I found on Bakerella 's website (I would directly link to the cookies but the site is down right now for maintenance). They were a bit too dry and crunchy that night but the next day they were really good. Junior made Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies. Have you ever heard of them? They are the perfect fall chocolate chip cookie! Yummmm! We really weren't sure how good they would be because really, pumpkin and chocolate. together. But we loved these. Again, I got the recipe from Bakerella although we did not frost ours. Because I was tired. and it was...

When my family wants Chicken and Dumplings, this recipe is what they are craving, not any of that stuff with bisquick or canned biscuits or tortillas. It isn't a quick simple meal, but it does make a huge amount. I always freeze half of it either to eat at another time or give to someone else.

Hubby took a double batch with him the other night to work because some of the people he works with were curious about Daisy's dish. He brought home an empty container and rave reviews. You might think that is is an easy crowd but I have NEVER gotten all positive reviews. There is always some guy who's mom made better, or thinks it is too sweet. edited to add: We took some to our Bible study class, and made a double batch. They loved it, and there were several requests for the recipe. And I did it with the less butter! This is the dessert that Daisy won the 3rd place award award in the youth fair. There were over 300 kids competing and there were 8 others in her category. Not only do the kids have to make something that tastes good, but they also have to be able to talk about how it was prepared, nutritional value, what they learned. They also have to serve it and not do anything like play with their hair, lick their fingers, any thing you wouldn't want your ...

A baguette is an incredibly easy yeast bread to make with no complicated ingredients. The first bread I made was "white bread" and that had a fairly long list of ingredients. This is much simpler. This is the bread that Daisy made to go in her pineapple bread pudding for youth fair.