Frosted Brownie Cookies : Blogger Holiday Cookie Party

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This recipe has been hanging on my fridge since i found it in the red plum coupon book came a few weeks ago! Can't wait to make them. Here it is:

Frosted Brownie Cookies

Ingredients:

	Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 (15.8 oz.)	package Pillsbury® Supreme Double Chocolate Brownie
1/3	cup Crisco® Butter Shortening, melted
1	large egg
1 (16 oz.)	can Pillsbury® Cream Cheese Frosting
	Candy bits

Preparation Directions:

1.	HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat cookie sheet lightly with no-stick cooking spray.
2.	STIR brownie mix, chocolate syrup packet, melted shortening and egg in medium bowl until evenly moistened. Scoop into 1 1/2-inch balls or drop by rounded tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheet.
3.	BAKE 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool 2 minutes. Remove from baking sheet to cooling rack to cool completely. Frost or drizzle and decorate as desired.
TIP	To Drizzle Frosting: Place 1/2 cup frosting in a resealable plastic bag. Push to one corner. Cut off small tip. Drizzle frosting over cookies.

Our First Turkey ! (updated)

Complete recipe, inspired by Emeril (see prev post)

and results to be posted later !

^ 1.5 hours cooking ^

^ 3 hours cooking ^

^ sweet potato casserole - hmmm...marshmallows almost disappeared... ^

^ the whole spread ^

11.8lb TURKEY:  The night before dad rubbed it (inside and out) with a mix of dry spices like paprika, salt/pepper, italian mix and also garlic and butter.  The next day we used a wet mix of garlic, white wine, turkey stock, lemon, orange and same dry spices.  Stuffed it with an orange (cut in half) along with carrot and chopped onion mix. We cooked according to Emeril recipe. Added stock to pan each hour to loosen stuff on bottom and basted.   Also added chorice under turkey to cook during the last hour.  The turkey was so flavorful and moist, even the next day!

SWEET POT CASSEROLE: Recipe here, i used double the amount of sweet pots and it came out awesome!
(that ends the homemade items...  maybe next year we will get more creative!)

POTS: Betty Crocker Butter Flakes
STUFFING: Chicken Stovetop and chopped up Chorice.
GRAVY: brown gravy mix with turkey drippings.


We bought a couple pies and rice pudding.  Noone eats the cranberry sauce so we didn't waste it!

Share your turkey recipe!

We are still searching the internet for the best turkey recipe, Emeril was the most appealing so far... Do you have a great recipe?  How about tips and tricks for first time turkey cookers? (yes, that's us!)


Emeril's Big Bird with Giblet Gravy


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Quick & Easy Banana Bread

Need:
One box yellow cake mix/pudding in the mix
5 Mashed Bananas
2 Eggs

I mixed everything up and put into a 8x8 greased glass pan, baked according to cake box directions. 

We were using up ripe bananas and expected it to be a banana cake - it was so much more like banana bread. Moist and flavorful !

My Boys!

i heart my little boys...

Christmas, Dad's Favorite Holiday!

Yesterday dad ran into the Hallmark store to pick up our yearly ornament and came out with these:

^ This one is 8th in it's series, we started this series the first year we met! ^

^ He got this one, first in series, for Nikolas ^

^ This is a series to start for the baby, Nathan ^

^ This one is for the baby, Nathan ^

^ This one signs the Chicken Dance... he said it "cracked" him up ;) ^

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Dad came home with these this morning:

... and its not yet Thanksgiving!

RIP Tedy the Fish

The other night we found Tedy the Fish stuck to the filter vaccum tube. (note; the day Tedy the Dog was adopted we replaced him with Tedy the Fish)

I did my best to avoid the word "dead". I said things like:
"well i think he is very sick"
"no he's not moving"
"he might have to go to the fish doctor"
"we may have to go pick a new tedy the fish"

This morning as Nik wiped his tired eyes he asked:
"is my Tedy the Fish gonna come back from the fish doctor?"
"no, baby. he is not coming back" says mom

"is the other fish gonna be dead too?"

so much for that idea...

Most Favorite Baby Winter Item

 

 Find it @ LandsEnd.com

This was my most favorite winter baby item.  I began thinking about it again after talking with a girlfriend about winter jackets and car seats.  This outfit was the best!  It was thin enough to not have to adjust the car seat straps daily.  It was also great before and after walking, with or without shoes and it would also deter kids from removing their shoes & /socks !

Quick Movie Reviews

I rented IRON MAN last week maybe.  I enjoyed it, very entertaining and fun.  we liked it!


Dad has come home with these movies...

BABY MAMA - forgetable, completly predictable - kinda funny

HELL BOY 2 - not that good, nothing like the first (which i liked) - fell asleep

THE HAPPENING - good movie, tried to figure the whole thing out.  had a better appreciation once saw some behind the scenes and comments by m.night.  

WALL*E - declared a family movie night last night... it was cute, would watch it again if had to.  Nik was asking questions but has no interest in watching it again.

and That's that !  We are looking forward to Hancock.  

Do you have any DVD favs?