Four ingredients -- two for the cookie mix and two more for the cookies. How easy is that?? Chocolate Andes Mint Cookie Mix goes together in a flash and is super delicious, too. You'll want to make the mix for everyone -- and yourself too! Use a wide mouth quart jar. Add one box chocolate cake mix -- any kind. I used a devil's food mix that I had stocked piled when cake mixes were on sale. Pour the mix gently into the jar. Add a heaping 3/4 cup of Andes Mint Chips. Add lid. Print Chocolate Andes Mint Cookie Mix Tags Add tag and decorate jar to your heart's content. To make cookies, follow the simple directions. Chilling the dough makes it easier to handle, especially if you are forming the cookies by hand. I used a cookie scoop to measure and place cookies on the baking ... [Read More]
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Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies with white chocolate chips
Pink strawberry cookies studded with white chocolate chips seem to announce “spring is coming!” They are pretty and cheery additions to a cookie tray, perfect for spring occasions. Or a reminder of fresh strawberries and sunshine when there is a foot of snow on the ground. With four ingredients, Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies are quick and easy to make. The hardest thing I’ve found is keeping the white chocolate chips evenly distributed in the dough. They seem to want to pop out of the dough as you handle it. Which makes them look even more irresistible – but a little difficult to manage. Resist the urge to double the amount of white chocolate chips. Or you’ll be scooping the excess chips off the cookie sheet and the counter. You can’t put them back in the bag, of course. So you’ll have to ... [Read More]
Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken
Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken -- another quick and easy dinner. Chicken made moist with egg, flavored with parmesan cheese and panko, then crisped in a bit of olive oil. Tender and flavorful any time, any season and picture perfect enough for guests. This is one of my “stand in the refrigerator door-- what am I going to cook now?” inventions, so if you are looking for gourmet – maybe next time! I spied a jar of grated parmesan cheese in the refrigerator door, looked at the package of chicken tenderloins in the freezer next door and remembered seeing parmesan chicken on a restaurant menu once and there you go. Chicken breast tenderloins are slices of chicken breast about one half inch thick. They’re not available in all stores, but I can buy them at one of the supermarkets for ... [Read More]
Wicked Good Simple Sweet Slaw
My mother’s Sweet Coleslaw recipe. I could eat it twice a day at least four days a week. Crunchy, creamy and the perfect accompaniment for anything. I’ve never seen another recipe for coleslaw this simple – and no vinegar. I don’t consider myself a picky eater by any means – just please, please, please don’t give me coleslaw with vinegar in it. Who wants vinegar when we can have sweet and creamy, I say! I’m sure Mom’s recipe started out with one medium head of cabbage, sliced very thin to make approximately four cups. You can do that. You can also shred cabbage very nicely with the food processor. I prefer packaged shredded cabbage – at least until garden season with our own fresh cabbage. Mom was also a flexible cook (where do you think I got that???) so she would adapt. ... [Read More]
Peanut Butter Double Chocolate Bars
Christmas at Wheel's family farm included candy. I zeroed in on the Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Grandma made. The peanut butter cup knockoff. Tastes just like the cups in the bright orange wrapper -- aka Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Sweet peanut butter wrapped in chocolate -- bliss! This is a very simple recipe – four ingredients counting the secret and unexpected one. It’s faster to make with a food processor and the microwave, but easily done by hand. I cut the recipe in half to make 32 pieces in an 8x8 pan instead of the 48 pieces Grandma made in a 9x 13. Line the 8x8 pan with non-stick aluminum foil, parchment or wax paper leaving a 3 inch overhang on each end to make “handles” so you can lift the candy out of the pan for slicing without losing a single piece. The ... [Read More]
Wicked Good and Easy Pork Chops
These pork chops are wicked good! My sister in law, Deb, is from New England and was the first person I ever heard say something was wicked good. We tease about her accent – being from the Midwest and all, WE speak with the correct accent. When Wheels and I visited, Deb told us that they would be taking us to a seafood restaurant called Newick’s. I kept looking for Newark’s – compensating for her accent. Guess what? It really did say N E W I C K on the sign. Maybe part of the accent is in the hearer’s ear! These pork chops were a surprise, too. Surprise that I ever tried them because I do not like mustard. Not as in I hate it and it would never cross my lips, but I won’t go out of my way to eat something with mustard in it. Not only did I voluntarily make this – but it has ... [Read More]
