Steak!! How fancy!

Since my wonderful Grandmamee sent me back to school with a 6 pound beef tenderloin, I figured it was high time to have a small gathering. Part of my rec league co-ed basketball team came over and despite the fact that there weren’t enough veggies, we had a really yummy dinner!
The Menu:
Rosemary and garlic tenderloin… Such an easy recipe from William Sonoma!
Roasted sweet potatoes (pretty generic stuff but oh so yummy even to our picky, “non-sweet potato” eaters
French green beans… Made by Jordan but burnt by me when I forgot all the things going on in the kitchen!
Blackberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream!! My absolute favorite dessert! I’ll share the recipe!

Take your blackberries and wash them. Put them down in your casserole dish and make your crust out of one egg one cup of flour and one cup of sugar. squeeze half a lemon over the blackberries then pour your crust crumble over the mixture. Then melt a stick of butter and pour over the top of the crust and blackberries!

Something I will never make…

Marinara Sauce! I just don’t understand why people buy marinara sauce. Is it just to prove that you are better than the rest of us grocery shoppers? Congratulations! You win! And you have too much free time! Forever will I proudly load my grocery cart up with delicious red marinara sauce in a jar!

My life is complete

A grandma asked me for my chocolate chip recipe! MY recipe! I have a recipe people want! AHHHH! Clearly I’m thrilled! This is IT! I’ve arrived at what I perceive to be baking greatness!!! I’ll share my recipe here!

Grandmamee’s World Best Chocolate Chip Cookie
Makes 10 dozen

1 cup sugar
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup butter
1 cup crisco wesson oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3.500 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup oats
1 cup Rice Krispies®
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup or more semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cream the butter, and sugars together. Then add the oil, and egg and beat well. Add vanilla, flour, soda, and salt and mix well. Stir in the oats, Rice Krispies, coconut, pecans and chocolate chips. Bake at 325 for 15 minutes.

Three things everyone should have…

A wonderful momma, Lilly pajamas and a football helmet cookie cutter!
I came home for the weekend for youth sunday at church so mom and I spent a day getting beautified and buying a lamp to make the living room more beautiful! Dad and I went to the grocery store and then went to dinner as a family which I love love love!! Now mom and I are making my great grandmas sugar cookies! Yum yum!!

Rolled Sugar Cookies:
1 cup of butter
Cup and a Half of sugar
2 eggs
3 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
3 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream sugar and butter then add eggs as vanilla. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir dry ingredients into the butter mixture. Chill the dough at least one hour (we didn’t know this was a step so that’s why we have time to blog!).
Preheat oven to 350. Roll out dough very thin on marble or a floured surface. Bake on a lightly greased sheet for about 6-8 minutes! Then decorate!

Just because you eat alone doesn’t mean it cant be delicious!!

So in an effort to save money, to eat the chicken thats been in my freezer since November and to eat a delicious dinner before class, I cooked my own speedy meal. By no means was it a complicated meal. I defrosted a chicken breast, heated up some olive oil in the pan and flopped the chicken in. Then I sprinkled in some black pepper, salt and red pepper flakes. Waited not so patiently until it was done (made some risotto in the meantime). When I say patiently I mean I cut the chicken in half so it cooked faster… Then I cut up some tomatoes, put them in the pan with the chicken, cooked them for a bit then put it on my plate then put it in my belly! Yum yum!!