Goal Number 37-New Recipe #8

Coffee Cake Muffins
(recipe courtesy of Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book-12th Edition)

Cooking Time: 15-18 minutes

Servings: 12
Preparation Time: 20 minutes

3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
3 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 Tbsp. butter
3 Tbsp. walnuts or pecans, chopped
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup butter
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk

Preheat oven to 400 F.


Grease twelve 2 1/2-inch muffin cups or line with paper bake cups; set aside.

For topping, in a small bowl, stir together the 3 tablespoons flour, brown sugar, and the 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in the 2 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; stir in nuts; set topping aside.

In a medium bowl, stir together the 1 1/2 cups flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, the 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ginger, baking soda, and salt; cut in the 1/4 cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

In another bowl, combine egg and buttermilk; Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture; stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).

Spoon half of the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each one-third full. Top with half of the topping, the remaining batter, and the remaining topping.

Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until golden and a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Reimove from muffin cups; serve warm.


**This is a delicious recipe!  I highly recommend it.  I made them for dinner and served them with a yummy Potato Corn Chowder.  Yum-Chum!!

Cinco de Mayo Celebration-New Recipes

I love Mexican food and what better opportunity than Cinco de Mayo to try out some new recipes.  I made some chicken tacos and actual FRIED ice cream.  The both turned out super yummy.  I would definitely recommend both recipes.


Sheryl Crow's Chicken Taco's
(Recipe courtesy of People Magazine)

1 1/2 c. chicken stock

1 1/2 c. mild salsa
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Flour tortillas
Shredded Cheddar
2 c. shredded lettuce

In a sauce pan, combine the chicken stock and the salsa. Bring to a boil. Add the chicken, cover and simmer on low heat for 1 1/2 hrs. Remove chicken from pan, reserving some liquid, shred chicken with two forks. Pour reserved liquid over chicken to keep it moist (you don’t need much because it’s very moist already). Create your tacos!

**I should note that I like more "stuff" on my tacos so I also used some black beans, corn, rice, tomatoes and olives but the basic concept of cooking the chicken in the salsa and chicken stock really was delicious.  YUMMY!!


 
 
Fried Ice Cream
(Recipe courtesy of allrecipes.com)
 


1 quart vanilla ice cream

3 cups crushed cornflakes cereal
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 egg whites
2 quarts oil for frying

1.Scoop ice cream into 8 - 1/2 cup sized balls. Place on baking sheet and freeze until firm, about 1 hour.

2.In a shallow dish, combine cornflakes and cinnamon. In another dish, beat egg whites until foamy. Roll ice cream balls in egg whites, then in cornflakes, covering ice cream completely. Repeat if necessary. Freeze again until firm, 3 hours.

3.In deep fryer or large, heavy saucepan, heat oil to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

4.Using a basket or slotted spoon, fry ice cream balls 1 or 2 at a time, for 10 to 15 seconds, until golden. Drain quickly on paper towels and serve immediately.

Quilt-Progress Finally Being Made

I have actually made some progress on my quilt in the last couple of days.  Go me!!  There are 9 total squares of the quilt each made up of 4 pieced blocks.  Ugh!  I am a glutton for punishment.  :)  I finally got 1 set of the 4 blocks pieced.  Woohoo!!  I am really happy with how it is turning out.  I am encouraged to keep going.

Goal Number 93 Finished!!

It's true, I read right through my 24 hour mark.  To be honest I took several breaks over the course of the last day or so but I am pretty happy with what I got read.  Below I have listed the things read in the second 12+ hours.

Magazines
People-114 pages
Better Homes & Gardens-228 pages
Marie Claire-254 pages

Book
Gone With a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West-342 pages

I really enjoyed this silly book.  It was full of Southern charm and a super easy read.  It is an extremely predicated murder mystery with just enough romance and humor to keep the pages turning.  I am not sure if it's because I am extremely tired but I have no idea why there was a need for the last paragraph.  It makes absolutely no sense to me.  If any of you ever read this book maybe you can explain it to me.

***Disclaimer-I am soooo tired right now so if parts of this post to not make sense please forgive me!!!