I subscribe to this newsletter and have often discovered great German recipes along with a lot of interesting facts and stories. Being half German, for some reason this appeals to me! Today, I discovered this recipe in time to use it for my pie crust for a change of pace from my usual recipe.
http://www.kitchenproject.com/GermanGoodies/2012/Aug31-2012.htm
Friday, August 31, 2012
Next on my list of things to bake . . .
Two peach pies are cooling on the counter . . . right next to two, huge bowls of fresh tomatoes from the garden. It gave me an idea . . . Use the search engine on the computer to see if anyone has come up with a recipe for sweet tomato cake and one showed up immediately. The blogger mentioned the same problem, a surplus of beautiful tomatoes so she devised this recipe. She is into healthy so you don't need eggs or butter in it and her picture reflect a very successful outcome. I plan to put this recipe to good use . . . as soon as the peach pies are gone!
http://www.lovefoodeat.com/sweet-tomato-cake-with-olive-oil-cinnamon/
http://www.lovefoodeat.com/sweet-tomato-cake-with-olive-oil-cinnamon/
More Wisdom Through Quotes!
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form
of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the
aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat
are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the
crowd."
-- Edith Sitwell
-- Edith Sitwell
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I
think that's how dogs spend their lives."
-- Sue Murphy
-- Sue Murphy
"Outer space is no place for a person of breeding."
-- Lady Violet Bonham Carter
-- Lady Violet Bonham Carter
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the
computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon,
and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
-- Robert X. Cringely
-- Robert X. Cringely
Brown Sugar Lemon Spice Shortbread
This is a small-batch recipe. I use it when my husband decides he needs something to sustain his engergy in a hectic week. I like it because there won't be a lot of leftover cookies to tempt him too much! It is easy to throw together and the long baking time leaves you to the rest of your dinner prep work without worry.
Brown Sugar Lemon Spice Shortbread
1 cup butter - margarine will definitely not work!
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cup all-purpose flour
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Beat together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the spices, zest, vanilla and beat to combine. Stir in the flour to form a dough.
There are two ways to prepre the cookies. You can either scoop out tablespoons of dough into rounded balls and press them down with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar or you can divide the dough into two or three larger balls, press out into about a 1/2 thick circle.
Either way, bake for approximately 25-40 minutes depending on the size of the cookies. They should be golden around the edges. Let cool on baking sheet and carefully transfer to a rack to finish cooling.
These go great with an iced tea, glass or cold milk,
I can always make these easy little cookies with the ingredients in my pantry. They're rich, crisp, and so simple to make.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter (NO substitutes), softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. In large bowl, beat butter until fluffy. Add brown sugar and mix well. Then add flour and mix just until a dough forms. Divide dough into 2 balls and pat each into a 1/2" thick 7" round on an ungreased cookie sheet. Prick each with fork. Bake at 300 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove to wire rack to cool. Cut each round into eight wedges to serve. 16 cookies
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All too often . . .
While
intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to
complicate the simple.
- Gerald W.
Grummet
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Chris Christie's Convention Highlights . . .
#1 – Our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity is fleeting and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and emotions of the times. Our leaders today have decided it is more important to be popular, to do what is easy and say “yes,” rather than to say no when “no” is what’s required.
#2 – Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power.
#3 – They believe in teacher’s unions. We believe in teachers.
#4 – It’s the power of our ideas, not of our rhetoric, that attracts people to our Party.
#5 – When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about winning re-election, it’s possible to work together, achieve principled compromise and get results.
#6 – Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America.
#7 - Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world’s greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
#8 – Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.
#9 – What will our children and grandchildren say of us? Will they say we buried our heads in the sand, we assuaged ourselves with the creature comforts we’ve acquired, that our problems were too big and we were too small, that someone else should make a difference because we can’t? Or will they say we stood up and made the tough choices needed to preserve our way of life?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my children and grandchildren to have to read in a history book what it was like to live in an American Century. I don’t want their only inheritance to be an enormous government that has overtaxed, overspent and over-borrowed a great people into second-class citizenship. I want them to live in a second American Century.
#10 – We have never been victims of destiny. We have always been masters of our own.
#2 – Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power.
#3 – They believe in teacher’s unions. We believe in teachers.
#5 – When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about winning re-election, it’s possible to work together, achieve principled compromise and get results.
#6 – Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America.
#7 - Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world’s greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
#8 – Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.
#9 – What will our children and grandchildren say of us? Will they say we buried our heads in the sand, we assuaged ourselves with the creature comforts we’ve acquired, that our problems were too big and we were too small, that someone else should make a difference because we can’t? Or will they say we stood up and made the tough choices needed to preserve our way of life?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my children and grandchildren to have to read in a history book what it was like to live in an American Century. I don’t want their only inheritance to be an enormous government that has overtaxed, overspent and over-borrowed a great people into second-class citizenship. I want them to live in a second American Century.
#10 – We have never been victims of destiny. We have always been masters of our own.
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