Easy Easy Peanut Butter Cookies December 8, 2009

Since the holiday season is rapidly approaching (YIKES!), I decided to make some traditional Christmas cookies. I found this recipe on easy-cookies.com. I couldn’t believe how easy they were  to make. With all the work of the end of the semester and all my holiday shopping, this recipe is a huge time saver.

Recipe

• 1 cup peanut butter                                                                            
• 1/2 sugar
• 1 egg

Preheat oven to 325*  Mix everything together until well blended.  Refrigerate for 30 minutes.  Roll into 18 balls.  Place 2″ apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Flatten each ball in a criss-cross pattern with a fork.  Bake for 18 minutes.  Cool.

                                                                                                                                                        

Instead of doing the criss-cross pattern, I pushed a Hershey’s kiss into the center of each cookie as soon as they came out of the oven to make the infamous Peanut butter blossoms. Chocolate and peanut butter! Yum.

These were very good cookies. But I am mostly amazed at how easy they were to make.

Chicken Cutlets December 8, 2009

This is a recipe that I found a couple of years ago and I have just memorized the simple ingredients. It’s an American favorite and easy to make.

Recipe

• 3-4Chicken breasts
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons of salt
• bread crumbs
• olive oil
• pepper
• salt

Beat (I guess that’s the right word???) the chicken breasts with rolling-pin or mallet, in till quarter of an inch thick. Add the 2 tablespoon of milk to egg and beat. Dip the chicken into the egg and milk mixture and make sure the chicken is completely covered. In large plastic bag mix the bread crumbs, salt, pepper. Put the chicken in the bag. Make sure to ziplock the bag and shake to cover the chicken in bread crumbs. Heat oil in a skillet. Add breaded chicken and cook for a couple minutes on each side until the center is no longer pink. 

When I made this recipe there was a lot of smoke. I didn’t burn it though. Apparently, our alarm system is connected to our fire detectors and when the detector went off the alarm went off and the fire department was immediately called. Two minutes later a police man, and Fire Chief were at my house. awesome! I looked like the biggest dumbass. Moral of the story: put on a fan and open the windows! 

I forgot to take a picture because of all the drama with the fire company. It really wasn’t burnt. My dad and I ate the chicken and it was delicious!!!!