Easy! Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Like I mentioned earlier, I was just craving some homemade chocolate chip cookies! Well after searching through the thrift-store-recipe-box and the kitchen for the ingredients and supplies needed, I found everything I needed to make them. The recipe I had was really intense and called for a lot of different things, I simplified it for us simplified cookers - Enjoy!



Ingredients:
1 cup of Brown Sugar (packed)
1/2 cup of white Sugar
3/4 cup of Butter
2 eggs

2 1/4 cups of Flour
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda

1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Chocolate Chips (Amount per your desire!)

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix first four ingredients listed in a bowl until smooth.
Mix the next three ingredients together in a separate bowl together.
Mix both bowls together; slowly pour the flour mixture in, little by little.
Add the last two ingredients into the bowl.

Grab a tablespoon and start to ball up small-medium sized balls of dough, and place them at least 1 1/2 inches from each other on your non-stick pan.

Throw them in the oven, bake until desired tint of brown.
Let them cool for 8-10 minutes once removed, then serve!
Dunk them in milk! Thats my fave!

Enjoy!
(Pictures from my phone will be added later.)

Feeling Chocolatey..

I am making my dad and I chicken stir-fry tonight for dinner.. But I caught a glance of my chocolate chips I have left over from my Apple Dessert Nachos, and I want some cookies! Dug out a recipe from my thrift-store box, checking for ingredients now.. If I don't have them to make the cookies tonight, I shall do it tomorrow after a trip to the store!

But let's seriously hope I have them for tonight.. Chocolate cravings are not something to mess with!

Will continue later..

Update:
GOT THEM!

Morning Cooker..Not.

Let's just say going to bed at 1am and trying to wake up to a 7:15am alarm on your day off, not a good thing. Its 8:40am now and I have my Sticky Loaf Buns, Cheesy-Cheesy-Potatoes, and Baked Garlic Taters in the oven. My Apple Dessert Nachos are getting put together at the spa.

I'll admit the buns looked much more yummy this time than last time, I'm excited for everyone to eat them right out of the oven (pretty much).

Will continue this later..
Let's hope they like all of it!!

UPDATE:
They all liked what I made and I got lots of fun feedback!
I know what to try next time, and maybe I won't make so much either, ha!

Apple Dessert Nachos!

I'm wondering if I like the name of these lol Apple + Nachos doesn't sound delicious together at all..

Anywho, here's my delish dessert! Don't be fooled, it's not the healthiest dessert on the planet.

Ingredients:
Sliced Red Apples
Small Marshmallows
Caramel Topping
Chocolate Chips

Directions:
Place apples on serving dish.
Heat caramel, then lightly cover apples.
Spread marshmallows and chips on top.
All Done! Serve!

Fell free to add cool whip to the mix!
Also, just in case, put marshmallows and chips on the side instead of topping, allows the other people eating to choose and decide on serving sizes for themselves!

This time I put the chips and marshmallows on then the warm caramel! Next time I'm adding chocolate and whipped cream!

Baked Garlic Taters

So, first let me start by mentioning I found a recipe box at the thrift store the other day and it had tons of recipe cards inside! I couldn't read majority of them because they must have gotten wet at some point. However, I did get a few out and I'm in love with a couple!

Ingredients:

5 lbs. of Red Potatoes

Garlic Powder

Salt

Pepper

Parsley

Oil

Directions:

Heat your oven to 400 degrees.

Rinse and cut up potatoes into preferred size.

Fill pan about half-way then sprinkle desired toppings on top in an even layer, not including oil.

Toss blend of potatoes and toppings together with hands.

Finish filling pan with potatoes, sprinkle desired toppings on top in an even layer, not including oil.

Toss remainder of potatoes and toppings together with hands.

Pour a light topping of oil on top of the potatoes, about 1/4 cup.

Toss the mix of potatoes, toppings, and oil together with hands.

Spread evenly.

Cover pan.

Place into fully pre-heated oven for 45 - 60 minutes. (Based on preferred crispness.)

Pull out of oven when complete, allow 5-10 minutes cooling, then serve!

ALL DONE!!!

When I was pulling out the potatoes to chop them up, I found the largest red potato I have ever seen in my entire life!

Sadly, of course it was the rotten one of the bunch :( made me sad!

Hope you all enjoy! Let me know what you think! :)

Got Pot Luck?

Psh. Let's hope I sure do! I came up with the brilliant idea to have an in-service day tomorrow at the spa where I work. All of the ladies are coming in to eat, do each others hair and I'm taking their photos do I can update our website and social networking sites.

Tonight I'm prepping what I'm making, then waking up at 7am to cook them because I want them to taste my inventions fresh! Ha.

I'm making a couple new things, two of which I found in a recipe box I got at the thrift store the other day :)

My Menu:
Apple Dessert Nachos (NEW)
Sticky Loaf Buns
Cheesy-Cheesy-Potatoes
Baked Garlic Taters (NEW)

The two that aren't new we're made before and I made posts for them earlier. Once I start baking in the morning I'll make new posts for the other two that I've never tried before.

Thankfully, all of this cooking will be easy, or so I hope! :)

Goodnight! Will update tomorrow-

My Stir-Fry Dinner

Decided to make myself dinner tonight since I was home alone. I looked in the pantry and in the fridge/freezer. Found some ingredients for fast and easy Stir-Fry. Looked online for how other people made theirs, much too complicated, I felt lazy.


Here's how my cooking experience went-

Ingredients:
1 pack of Chicken Breasts (3 breasts, or more)
Minute Rice or other rice of choice
Water
Stir-Fry Vegetables of choice
Oil
Soy Sauce or other topping of choice


Prep:
Rinse chicken breasts and cut into bite-size shapes
Toss bag of stir-fry veggies into a pan with light oil, cover.
Fill a pan of water (measure details on box of rice, choose your serving)


Directions:
Turn on pan for chicken on medium-high heat and put chicken in, cover.
Turn on pan of veggies on medium-low heat; covered.
Turn on pot of water on medium-high heat; wait for boil.

As all three items start to cook/boil, mix around chicken and mix around veggies.
When chicken is completely cooked, turn heat off.
Pour on little by little amounts of sauce onto chicken until desired amount, stir while doing so.
Pot of water should be at boil, mix rice in. (measure details on box of rice, choose your serving)
Follow directions on box to finish rice.
When veggies are at preferred cooking time, turn heat off.
Mix veggies into pan of finished chicken, stir to mix.

Serve:
Place rice on plate and serve chicken & veggies on top.


It was a yummy, quick choice! :)