Today's Good Eating Recipe is my creation: Peanut Butter Cookie Bars! I'm not so good with baking cookies---I either get busy or forget and miss the timer going off, so my cookies end up being a little on the dark side. That's why I prefer "bar cookies" in a 10 x 13 pan. So I decided to figure out how to turn two packets of Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookie Mix into a 10 x 13 pan of bar cookies. Peanut Butter Cookies are, in themselves, a fairly dry dough, since you roll them into balls in your hands to make them. To make them work in a 10 x 13 pan as bars meant increasing the liquids called for on the cookie mix packs just enough to make the mix spreadable in a pan, yet not so much to make them cakey. They need to retain that peanut butter cookie texture to be just right as a bar. So, it took me 3 tries to get the right ratio. The first try was too thick, but tasted perfect; the second try was too cakey and the final try was just right. You'...
The Mama Kat blog writing topic for today is to, "Trouble I Got Into One Summer." It wasn't a bad sort of trouble. I didn't even cause it. It was just an inspiration our parents had that didn't quite work out as imagined. I think it was around 1972. The television had gone on the fritz in the spring, just before school let out. I'm quite sure it was an older model with vacuum tubes and all. We always had "adopted TV's" that our Dad would be home from work because customers would often choose to give up a TV rather then fix it. He was a professional TV repairman. It's what he did and he could have easily fixed our TV. However, he and Mother Mom decided we 3 kids should have a summer, "without TV." That sounds like a good idea, right? Get the kids outside, less time in front of the tube. We lived way out in the country anyway, with lots of woods and a creek, so there was plenty of adventure to be had, plus we could ...
Wringer Washing Machine I remember while growing up in rural Indiana in the 60's and 70's, doing laundry was an all day event. My clearest memories of "laundry day," come from summer time, when we were out of school. Mother had a certain day of the week she did laundry usually. I liked to sleep in and I recall waking up around 9:30 to the chugging rhythm the wringer washer already at work. I'd see all the dirty laundry sorted into piles around the utility room floor: whites, light colors, medium colors, dark colors and heavy darks, like jeans. (The photo is one I found online of a Kenmore wringer washer quite similar to the last model I remember Mother having in the 70's.) You have to understand, wringer washers only do the washing part. S he'd start with whites, then once the washer finished it's wash cycle, it would stop. Then she'd, by hand, pull each item of clothing out of the washer and feed it through the wringer rollers ...
Zazzle is an American Printing Company that offers print-on-demand products with designs either created by free lance artists ready for you to buy that may allow you to customize photos or text OR be created by YOU! So today, I'm going to show you basic steps to using the Zazzle design tool, which works a little like Canva, to create your own Save The Date style card: #1) Select yout card template you want to use here: Zazzle Card Templates Shown is a 5 x 7 flat card that is popular. To the right, click the blue "Edit Your Image" button to open the Design Tool. #2) Now you're ready to design: First, what kind of background do you want? Red arrows point at either a plain color background option or a pre-designed color or print background? (all free) I added one of the pre-designed backgrounds. #3) Next, do you want to add clip art? Click the word "Icons' on left side bar to open this drop down menu indicated by red arrow. I selected a pair of rings wit...
Today's Mama Kat prompt I chose was to write a post inspired by the word: dark. I've been saving creative writing prompts on my Pinterest board. (You can read the ones I like.) One suggested rewriting a fairly tale with a different ending. My favorite author, satire writer James Thurber, was very good at those, so I decided I'd try my hand at it by rewriting a well-known Mother Goose nursery rhythm with a dark twist. The Woman In A Shoe Once upon a time, There was a little old woman who lived in shoe, Who had so many children she didn't know what to do. But the crotchety old man living in the Cowboy Boot next door, Got tired of the little trespassers playing on his lawn, So he called the County Family Welfare office, Who came out and cited the little old woman for operating a Day Care without a license, And took away all the children. So, unemployed, she sold her shoe to a young couple looking for a fixer-upper And moved t...
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