Chocolate Turtle Pecan Cookies

Chocolate Turtle Pecan Cookies

3/4 C sugar
1/4 C shortening
1/4 C butter or margarine
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 C Flour
3/4 tsp cream of tartar
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C chopped pecans
36 caramels, unwrapped
2 Tbs milk
1 C  Chocolate Chips (6 oz.), melted

-Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter, shortening, vanilla and egg. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.

-Shape dough into 1" balls. On ungreased cookie sheets place balls 3" apart. With greased bottom of glass dipped in sugar, flatten balls slightly. Press 1 tsp pecans into each cookie.

-Bake 9 to 10 minutes or until set but not brown. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

-In small microwavable bowl, microwave caramels and milk on High for 2 to3 minutes, stirring every minute until smooth. Spoon caramel over cookies; top with melted chocolate. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

TO MELT CHOCOLATE: Use small saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently until melted. Or microwave chocolate chips in a small microwavable bowl on High 1 to 2 minutes, stir until smooth

Crocheted Golden Snitch

Crocheted Golden Snitch

ButterScotch Rolls

ButterScotch Rolls 18 dinner rolls frozen 1 small pkg. butterscotch pudding 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup butter Generously grease bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts on bottom and lay rolls on top. Sprinkle with dry pudding mix. Bring butter and brown sugar to boil and pour over rolls. Cover with plastic wrap. Let set overnight. In morning preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove plastic and Bake 20 minutes. Invert onto serving plate. Enjoy!

Parmesan Gnocchi in Cream Basil Sauce

Parmesan Gnocchi in Cream Basil Sauce This recipe has been passed on by an Italian family. It is not made with potatoes instead ricotta cheese is used. I otherwise call these an italian dumpling. .

Gnocchi dough 2 cups ricotta 2 eggs 1 cup shredded parmesan 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. white pepper 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 2 cups flour (may need more for rolling out dough) Mix all ingredients together. then gradually add flour. You want a soft not to sticky dough. Chill dough overnight. Work with 1/3 of dough at a time. Roll out on floured board into a long narrow tube. Cut into 1/3 of a inch thick and roll into a fork to form ridges. Ridges help hold the sauce, so don't worry about perfection. place on a cookie sheet (may chill til cooking time)cover so they don't dry out. In a large pot boil water 3/4 full and drop gnocchi into boiling water when they float they are done and ready to eat. Take gnocchi out and place on platter. Make your sauce during the cooking time. Sauce 1/2 cup butter 2 oz. of prsciutto chopped 10 torn basil leaves 1/4 cup pine nuts 1 cup cream (beat 1/2 of cream) 1/2 cup shredded parmesan Place butter and cream into a saucepan. Brown pine nuts in a saute pan. Add all ingredients except parmesan cheese to saucepan and turn heat on low and stir til butter melts. Add parmesan cheese after stirred in well. Pour over Gnocchi and enjoy. You will be happy you gave this a try.

Avocado ChickPea Dip

Tablecloth

One of my goals this year is to crochet a tablecloth for my dinningroom table. I started this in February. Here is my progress so far!

One complete square

Need one more square to attach both panels.

1/2 way there yeah!

Cheddar Olive Bread

Cheddar Olive Bread

1 1/4 tsp. active dry yeast
1 1/8 lukewarm water
1 1/2 tsp. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
3 cups flour
1 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
3/4 cup small pimento stuffed olives (I cut into three slices)
Add all ingredeients to bread maker except olives. Wait for the beep to add them. Let bread machine finish and bake bread.

This is a very soft texture bread. Turn out great!