Pumpkin Dip

Sorry, guess I'd better learn to plan and take 'before' ingredient pictures!

AJ got this recipe from his 4th grade teacher. When the parents came to school for Thanksgiving lunch, dessert was in the room. AJ loves pumpkin!!!!

Ingredients:
1 Cup Pumpkin
2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese (at room temperature)
4 Cups powdered sugar
1 generous teaspoon of Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon Ginger

Cream softened cream cheese with hand mixer in large bowl. Add pumpkin and powdered sugar one cup at a time until thoroughly mixed Add spices last and mix well. Serve with gingersnap cookies for a Thanksgiving Day treat!

Note, my kids like it with pretzels too!! I know, they are strange.

Enjoy!

Cozyflier

Amaretto Bread

Hope you still have a bread machine in your pantry collecting dust!


Ingredients:
1 pound loaf 1 1/2 Pd loaf
2 Cups Bread Flour 3 Cups
2/3 Cup Milk 1 Cup
1/2 Cup chpd hazelnuts/ 3/4 Cup
slivered almonds
1 Egg 1
2 Tbsp. Sugar 3 Tbsp.
2 Tbsp. Marg/Butter 3Tbsp.
4 tsp. amaretto or hazelnut liqueur 2 Tbsp.
3/4 tsp. active dry yeast 1 tsp.
1/2 tsp Salt 3/4 tsp.

Amaretto Glaze 1 recipe:
1/2 Cup powdered sugar and 1 Tbsp amaretto OR hazelnut liqueur OR almond extract. If needed, add 1 or 2 tsp milk to make drizzling consistency.




Add yeast and flour. We use room temperature milk, butter, egg, or warm slightly in microwave. Dump into machine, add nuts, sugar, amaretto, salt. Push Start!


Let the machine do the kneading!




Our machine does a rise, kneads, rises again!


Bakes and then cools!


We take it out!


Slice it, then I glaze it - top picture!

Enjoy! Found this recipe in BHG- 1993!!!!!!!!!!

Great for breakfast, coffee clutch, or just a snack!

Cozyflier

Organizing

From This:


Why do I feel like I'm more productive when I have a job and do stuff of the weekends? Does anyone else feel like this? When I wasn't working, I painted, re-did furniture, cleaned, etc!!!!!!!!

This past weekend, I organized all those wonderful recipes I've been pulling out of magazines for years, printing off the net, and getting from niece via e-mail and throwing in the cabinet!
To This:


My solution? 2, count them, 2 three ring binders and almost 200 page protectors! Then I re-organized 4 cabinets in the kitchen to make my cook books and these 2 new binders more accessible! I hope this is all worth while!!

I did find an old friend of a recipe that I will be sharing.

Cozyflier

Holly Cookies

I know it is early, but I want to post this early so you have time to perfect your skills, and gain weight!!! These look difficult, but really are simple. I have been making them since I was 10, I'm almost 49!

Sorry, I forgot to get an ingredient picture.

1 stick butter
30 Large Marshmallows
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Green food coloring - to your appeal!
3 cups Cornflakes, NOT frosted
Red hot candies

WAX paper



In a double boiler, melt the butter, add the marshmallows, stir frequently. When they are melted, add the vanilla and Green food coloring.


It should look like this!
Add the corn flakes, and gently stir to coat them in the green. Reduce heat slightly, don't want to cook flakes!

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper, put 3 Red hot candies onto the 'Holly' let cool.



You should end up with this!

Yield: depending on the size of cookie between 60-80 cookies!

Helpful hints:

I keep a small cup of water on the stove and dip spoons into the water between each cookie. Keeps the goo from sticking!

Stir the flake mixture every once in awhile, keeps recoating the flakes, and keeps the mixture evenly warmed.

Helps to have an extra pair of hands for the red hot candies, great job for a child!

After a few hrs take a table knife and loosen from the wax paper and put into a storage container with wax paper between layers of cookies.

These are very addicting!

enjoy!

Cozyflier

Cross Guard Duty

One of the honors of being a BMOC during 5th grade is getting to be a cross guard! Luckily, AJ got to do this a few weeks back while it was still decent weather. Yes, I'm behind in blogging! Anywhere, here is the cross guard in action!






He really enjoys school. September Student of the Month, student council class rep, and cross guard. Should I ask what's next??!!!!!!

Cozyflier

Hi Ho!!!!!!!!

Hi ho, hi ho it's off to work I go....
That's right friends, I can't call myself a SAHM any longer! I've gone back to work, at least part-time. I've always done retail sales or worked for my husband in the medical office.

I'm now working at Coldwater Creek. A wonderful ladies clothing store with a few home decor items. I'll be working during the holiday season. Don't know how much time I'll have for blogging, but please don't give up on me!!

Hugs,
Cozyflier

Happy Halloween!

Well, the annual Halloween Party was a HUGE success this year. I don't have many pictures because I was sooooooooo busy! We had about 85 kids running around - inside and outside on Friday night and at least 25 adults meandering and helping!

The trampoline had a steady line, we only allowed 5 at a time on it. The zip Cord pretty much had a continuous line of 15. We popped 280 balloons, played musical tombstones until my back was screaming and went through more chips & dip, cookies, brownies, pixie sticks, and witches brew! The kids thought the chocolate fountain was the coolest thing they had ever seen! OK, maybe the dry ice & fog vapor was the BIG hit of the party! Maybe it was a tie, one was fun to play in the other was yummy to eat!!

Here are a few of the pictures I was able to snap. You'll have to watch facebook for my friend Val. She is a professional photographer and she was taking photos!






Our work of art! When the game room/sun room was re-painted and ceiling repaired, we didn't have the lattice work put back up. So, we took the streamer roll and tossed it back and forth. Decorating was easy!!


Ever the mad scientist, Doc shows a group of kids what dry ice will do in boiling water! Wish I could have remembered where I had put the black lights


Mummy wrap!


Tyler with the dry ice! Tyler totally surprised me by coming into town for the party. Luckily, he came 2 days early to help me get ready!









My Star Wars fanatics! AJ the Jawa, and Chris in his Storm Trooper suit do battle in the front yard!!

Hope you all had a great Halloween.

I start work Monday at Coldwater Creek! I may not be around much more than I have lately!


Have a great week!

Cozyflier