Wordless Wednesday Grandma's PB Cookies

1c Peanut Butter
1c Sugar

1 Egg

Mix it all together,

spoon out onto cookie sheet, and flatten with a fork in a cross pattern.

Bake at 350 for 8-10min. Add that 4th ingredient just for fun.

~ Christy

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Tuesday Hops and Monday's Yummy

I promise I have been cooking more. I started Mommy Yummies on Monday's to make me do just that so mission accomplished ;) The hard part is documenting what I've made and working with my technical camera with my non-technical self. I would like to still recognize other Mommies and their Yummies. Yesterday I found the most delicious looking dessert only to find out it was a breakfast cake. OMGoodness, I can not wait to make this one and wished we still had some fresh berries left from our crop.

This is a creation by Michelle over at So Wonderful, So Marvelous who was being featured for this very recipe over at marvelousmommyamy.blogspot.com/. Thank you Michelle for your permission to post, enjoy everyone!

Raspberry Almond Breakfast Cheesecake
all food photos and recipes in this post courtesy of
www.sowonderfulsomarvelous.com

For the cake:

{2} packages crescent rolls

{2} 8 ounce packages of cream cheese

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste

1 tsp almond extract

1/2 tsp cinnamon

zest of one lemon

{1} egg yolk

1 small pint of raspberries

For the topping:

egg white

1/4 cup sugar

small package of sliced almonds

 

To begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Add the cream cheese, vanilla, almond, sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon, and egg yolk to a mixer and beat until smooth and fluffy, about 3 minutes.  {If you don't have a stand mixer, I would allow the cream cheese to soften just a bit before using a hand mixer.}

Unravel one package of crescent rolls and begin covering the bottom of your pan.  I used a round cheesecake pan here, but Emily uses a regular rectangular cake pan when she makes her version, just drop the cooking time to 25-30 minutes if you do.

Spoon the cream cheese mixture onto the crescent rolls... try to avoid licking the leftover batter, then say raw eggs be damned and lick it anyway.

Add most of the package of raspberries to the batter by lightly squishing them and pressing them into the pan.  Reserve a few berries for garnish.

Top with remaining package of crescent rolls.  Now, if you'd like it to look a bit fancy, lay them around the pan piece by piece with the point toward the middle, then curl the point in just a bit leaving a vent hole in the center.  Then give the whole top layer a good brushing with egg white.

Finally, top with the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar, then sprinkle the almonds along the outside edge of the pan.  Pop it in the oven for 40-50 minutes {about 30 minutes if you use a rectangle pan because the layers won't be as thick} and allow to cool on a wire cake rack to room temp.

You can then pop it in the fridge until you are ready to serve!  It holds up really well to making it the night before which means getting to sleep in.  My idea of a great morning!

Then, add a few raspberries on the plate, a sprig of mint and serve!

Enjoy!!




It's not Friday but I'm hopping anyways.
 

If you've been keeping up with us we've been wearing our tutu's on Tuesdays. Well I don't have one and have been wearing one of the Princesses torn one and look sooo silly. (What we won't do for our kids)

~ Christy

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Meal Planning

I finally sat down yesterday to plan out our meals for the pay period wich is every two weeks. There are so many great meals to make and now I'm overwhelmed. Ugh...I need to stop that. So I am doing it and I will like it. I will like how I won't be scrambling for something to throw together when my blood sugar is too low. I found this planner to work with and fell in love with every at Simply Recipes. I serious am having a hard time choosing.
Also I think if I start holding myself accountable and posting Monday Meal Pannings along with Monday Mommy Yummies I'll be sure to get it done.

Here is yesterday's yummy treat. We had some left over rotisserie chicken I shredded and added pineapple juice, our favorite barbeque sauce, diced up bell peppers, and tomatoes. I like to always keep some pasta noodles or basmati rice already made in the fridge for dinner options. I bought marshmallows and chocoalte for smores but we have no graham crackers. Oh well you can never go wrong with chocolate and marshmallows. Those added to some fried up biscuit pieces served as yummy doughnuts for dessert.

you can sort of see her 2 missing bottom teeth, and everything she ate (sorry but I love this picture anyways).

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Monday Mommy Yummies(they can't all be sweet)

Squirrel Gravy (sound yummy?)
My husband has been counting down the days to squirrel season ever since he made a bird house and the squirrels ransacked it!

4-6 squirrel boiled then meat taken off bones

4T melted butter

6T flour

1tsp garlic powder

1tsp hot pepper

(black or spicy hot, we like some heat)

1tsp chili pwdr

2 cups milk

water if needed

Melt the butter on the stove on med heat then add the flour stirring quickly. Slowly add milk using a whisk to keep gravy smooth and lump free. Add all the spices and cooked squirrel meet and constantly stir on med to high heat. You do not want to heat too high and risk scorching the gravy but not too low the gravy doesn't thicken. Add water bit by bit as gravy thickens for a texture you like. aprox 10-15min.
Serve over rice, noodles, or with rolls and veggies.


This recipe was slightly adapted and inspired by freespiritnaturalliving blog.
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Monday Mommy Yummies

Mondays can be a drag to most especially if Daddy goes back to work and once again the house is under Mommy's  control (Bwaaa hahahaha). Our weekend was full of fun and family because my youngest daughter turned 4. The one thing I love about parties is getting to spend time with family and friends I don't get to see on a regular basis. The one thing I dislike is planning the party and forgetting the camera ;) luckily friends took some pictures and I took one that morning.

She wanted some cookies, since we didn't get them for the party today I made pb cookies with melted chocolate chips on top. They are oh-so yummy. Lets see if I can keep this up. Every Monday I plan to create a Mommy Yummy, Mmm. What do you normally do on Monday's? I've seen Meatless Mondays and I may just try that too, one thing at a time.

   
I followed this recipe. I didn't have brown sugar so I just used 1c of what we had, organic sugar.

Happy Bday Baby Doll!

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Chetzels

These look terribly good. I will be making these soon and post pictures. Sorry I was too excited to post this before properly documenting it. Chetzels (chex, pretzels, and chocolate) how can you go wrong with those ingredients. I found this recipe here. Love moms passing the goodness along. Keep it coming.

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