RECIPE! and a shout out!

Here's the recipe for the cookies I made the other day...You can get the exact recipe from here... or this is mine that I modified a little bit...

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

preheat 375 degrees

grease the cookie sheets you are using except if they are stoneware...

Ingredients:

1C. butter or margarine...(I use 1C. butter flavored shortening with 1 oz. water)

1C. sugar

1C. brown sugar firmly packed

2 eggs

1tsp. vanilla

2C. all purpose flour

1 1/2tsp. cinnamon

1tsp. baking soda

1tsp. salt

3C. Quaker quick oats

1C. chocolate chips (at least)

Combine in separate bowl flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt until mixed well, set aside. Cream butter/margarine/shortening and sugars until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla unitl creamy. Add flour mixture slowly until blended. Add quick oats. Add ch. chips by hand until it looks like every bite will have a ch. chip in it! Drop by rounded scoops onto greased cookie sheet (which I like to preheat with the oven). Bake at 375 degrees for 11 minutes. Makes more than 6 dozen cookies if you use a small scoop.

I also like to make a second mixture of the flour mixture and store it for the next time so that I can just quickly get out everything and go to town on a new batch...!

Also its our good friend Scott Bernhardt's birthday today...hope you had a good one Scotty! We love and miss you guys!

For Yvonne!

Its February now...which means I get to put up my Valentine's Day quilt. I made this in 2001 (I think). I love it because every one of the corners matches up perfectly...Okay don't look closely because some of them are off a little bit but its really close. I love using red fabrics...I love doing straight lines and I love doing simple patterns that you repeat over and over again....I love this quilt! Also, a couple of years ago when my Aunt Emmy was suffering from cancer in Florida. I sent this blanket to her to take with her to chemo. She loved it and gave it back to me when she passed away. I like to think that she knew of my love for her when she used this blanket. Now I am posting it to bring some luck to my friend in Hawaii, Yvonne, who is expecting identical twin girls very soon this month. She loves to quilt and I hope this quilt shows her how much I love her too! Good luck with your delivery and your baby girls. Love, Monica
Also, the other day I made cookies for my dad's birthday and they were perfect. I have never had cookies turn out as good as these..taste and presentation wise. Since it is now February I get to make cookies again...Just because I like to bake cookies in February. I puts me in a lovey-dovey mood. Cookies are love! Happy February everyone! Love, Monica