it’s the monday giggles….
Happy Birthday, Mum!
Happy Birthday Mum!
Now that I’m older
I really want to thank you,
for never leaving me in a shopping cart
and running for the exit!
(I know it must have been tempting.)
hugs n’ blessings to the best mum in the 814 and all the other mums who are turning older today!
Psst – And don’t worry I won’t make any age related jokes…
I genuinely feel bad about how old you are!
Giggles…
Since Helen has invited so many “friends” to join us I guess we had better prepare for a larger crowd this month!!
And what better way than with one LARGE COOKIE!
COOKIE CAKE
1 cup crisco
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tea baking soda
1/2 tea salt
1 package (12 ounces) chocolate chips (I like Hershey’s Best!)
Heat oven to 375. Mix shortening, sugars and egg. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (dough will be stiff). Stir in chocolate chips.
Spray round aluminum pan lightly with baking spray. Place entire chocolate chip mixture in center of pan and begin to flatten/press evenly, until dough is within 1/2 inch of edge(s). (Dough will spread to edge during baking.)
*Recipe can also be made for individual medium-size cookies. Drop dough instead by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until light brown, 8 to 10 minutes. (Centers will be soft.)
Makes 1 round cookie-cake
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6 dozen medium-size chocolate chip cookies.
“If so, I sure do hope this will work!!”
nibble, nibble, nibble…
crumbs on the plate.
nibble, nibble, nibble…
it’s almost too late!
Hurry-Up!
Or you’ll miss the last bite
of something that is great!
hugs n’ blessings to ALL the friends who joined us this month to share in Cookie Baking Day!
Happy National Doggie Day too!
it’s the monday giggles: (And in honor of ‘Our Lady of the Grapes’…)
novinophobia: (noun)
the fear of running out of wine.
1 grape cluster = 1 glass
75 grapes = 1 cluster
4 clusters = 1 bottle
40 cclusters = 1 vine
1 vine = 10 bottles
1200 clusters = 1 barrel
1 barrel = 60 gallons
60 gallons = 25 cases
30 vines = 1 barrel
400 vines = 1 acre
1 acre = 5 tons
Daniel Susco in his interesting article
Have Another Glass : 7 Weird Facts about Grapes & Wine outlines for us…
people have been growing grapes for 8,00 years,
Noah grew them,
the oldest grape-producing vine is in Slovenia,
the oldest known winery is from 4000 B.C.,
red wine may help prevent heart disease,
Ancient Greek wine was very strong,
*an entire bottle of wine can fit into a Starbuck’s Trenta Cup.
(*I may have made that last one up myself.)
hugs n’ blessings and may your giggles burst more than your wine skins!
“Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” Matthew 9:17
hugsnblessings 