Recent Comments

1. about 3 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Whoa! Are you channeling Robert? Usually he’s the one mentioning having a cocktail.

2. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   OMC—"less tuna water to throw away"!? If you have cats, you better not throw that away … unless you like shredded ankles and life-time stink eye from the felines.

3. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Cocoa Oatmeal Cookies

   1 1/4 c All-purpose flour

   1/2 tsp Baking powder

   1/2 tsp Salt

   1/3 c Cocoa

   1 1/4 c Sugar

   1 Egg (well-beaten)

   1/2 c Milk

   1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

   1/3 c Shortening (melted)

   1/3 c Butter (melted)

   2 c Rolled oats

   Sift flour, measure; resift twice with baking powder, salt, cocoa and sugar.

   Combine beaten egg, milk and vanilla; add melted shortening and butter.

   Mix thoroughly with sifted dry ingredients. Stir in rolled oats.

   Drop by teaspoonfuls onto buttered cookie sheet. Bake in moderate over (350F) 15–20 minutes. Remove to cooling racks.

   Makes 5 dozen cookies.

   (Mother often made these ahead of time; she’d layer the baked cookies between sheets of waxed paper in a tin and put that in the freezer for me to take back to the D/FW Metroplex after a visit home.)

4. 2 days ago on Snow Sez

   Those are two of my favorite books! Also, The Harvester.

5. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I hope Bella kicks this soonest! I, too, had chest congestion and rhinitis that started a week into December and lasted well into January; it was miserable. My nose was so exfoliated (even using Puffs with Lotion!) that it’s 20 years younger than the rest of my face.

6. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Maureen Abood has a recipe for Bread and Butter Sweet Pickle Chips—no food coloring, but the cucumber slices stay bright green; best of all, NO cooking at all—just cover the cucumber and sweet onion slices with the sugar/vinegar and refrigerate for two days before eating (will keep several weeks in fridge).

7. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you! Hubby and I love tomatoes. I’ve saved a number of recipes from YouTube videos for “tomato pudding,” which seems to be the same dish although yours has basil instead of the cinnamon the others often have.

8. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   We actually have quite a few of Mother’s recipes especially the cookies, cakes and sweet treats she made for Christmas. But I would give a lot to have some of Mother’s chili and rice again. Mother was Puerto Rican, but the chili did not have beans!

9. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Just watched a YouTube video today by Kevin of Cavalcade of Food where he mixed up a “cake mix upsizer” concoction that he stores in the cupboard and adds to any boxed cake mixes that have downsized from 18.5 ozs.—you add six tablespoons of this dry mix to 15.25 oz. boxed cake mixes (eight tablespoons to 13.25 oz. mixes) so that you get as tall a cake, or as many layers of a cake as you used to.

10. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Tammy of Collard Valley Cooks has a YouTube video, “Homemade Eggnog – Pound Cake from Scratch – Making Our Own Eggnog,” where she makes a cooked eggnog—the yellows are cooked by adding the heated milk/cream to them slowly and the whites are folded in to the entire mixture as it is brought back up to temp on the stovetop. The eggnog making is the first half of the video.