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"Danish" Oatmeal Christmas Cookies ››:

These are the thinnest, most buttery-delicate-crispy-wonderful cookies that you will ever taste. I have yet to come across a person who, on first taste, has not smiled, looked up to the heavens and thanked their favorite deity or ancestor for their having been born and given the opportunity to crunch on one of these cookies. And, they are the easiest cookies to make.

They could really be called Oatmeal Pound Cookies, because the recipe is simply equal weights of oatmeal, sugar and butter (pound cake is equal wieghts of flour, sugar, butter and eggs). They could also be called pound cookies based on the weight you'll gain (you'll only eat one - right, BWAHAHA-HA-HA-HA-HA). The rest of the recipe is as simple as the ingredients: mix ingredients together (use your hands, its easier and more fun). Roll in walnut size balls & put on ungreased cookie sheet (like, with that much butter, you really think they'd stick to anything?). Bake in 325° oven for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown.

To be totally honest, I think the only things that are really Danish about these cookies are that my mother made these every holidy season and I usually try to use Danish butter if I can find it. My mother being Danish does legitimize using the word “Danish” in the title, but every other Dane I've ever met never really heard of these cookies.

Oh, and they are absolutely incredible crumbled on top of vanilla ice cream...

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Posted in scripts on Dec 23, 2001 @ 02:59 PM [1 Comments on "Danish" Oatmeal Christmas Cookies]

Blueberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting ››:

Halle's two (or she will be later this week). She likes blueberries. Scratch that, revise: She LOVES blueberries. Her favorite breakfast is blueberry muffins with cream cheese (to eat - lick off cream cheese, pick out blueberries putting 25% on clothes, smush cake on plate). Fittingly, this is the birthday cake daddy made when Mormor, her aunt Anni and her cousins came up on Saturday. It's really just a big blueberry muffin - and thus a little more dense than some would like for a cake. But it's moist, tasty, and really really good with the cream cheese frosting.

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Posted in scripts on Dec 17, 2001 @ 10:52 PM [1 Comments on Blueberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting]

Braised Beef Short Ribs ››:

Braised short ribs of beef taste, well, beefy. Steaks, hamburgers, roasts - they all taste great, but they don't really taste as beefy as cheaper cuts (e.g. lots of bones or cartilage like shoulder, ribs or shank) cooked “low and slow” in a fragrant liquid. When making it for Sunday dinner for the family, you can do the whole thing in almost one step by simply throwing the meat and vegetables into a pot and tossing it in the oven. You can also impress friends on a Saturday night by roasting the vegetables separately (and adding some wild mushrooms), removing the cooked meat from the braising liquid and puréeing the vegetables in the liquid to turn it into a sauce. The directions here describe the latter method, but I do point out the steps you can skip if you want to keep it simple. The only real trick for success is to let the meat take its time - expect at least 3 hours of oven time.

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Posted in scripts on Dec 03, 2001 @ 03:36 PM [0 Comments on Braised Beef Short Ribs]