Archive | December, 2008

I-5 Cheesecake Cookies recipe

I-5 Cheesecake Cookies recipe

New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve

Pop the cork: Local sparkling wines

Sparkling wines from Northern California

Grandma Wood’s Cutout Butter Cookies

Grandma Wood’s Cutout Cookies

Christmas Dining

Christmas Dining

Pine Cone Restaurant

Pine Cone Restauraunt reopens

Toffee Bar Cookies

Toffee Bar Cookies

Chocolate Crinkles

chocolate crinkles

Meringue Yummies

Meringue Yummies

Taylor’s Automatic Refresher

Wine Country’s favorite walk-up burgers and fries

Walnut Pepper Biscotti Recipe

Walnut Pepper Biscotti Recipe

Fried Chicken

The hunt for fried chicken

Almond Delights

¼ cup blanched almonds 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 16 equal pats ½ cup confectioners sugar 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pure almond extract 1 recipe Chocolate-Almond Filling (recipe follows) Preheat oven to 350 degrees Spread the almonds on a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven until [...]

Fantasy Fudge

Fantasy Fudge

Ginger Cookies recipe

Great recipe for ginger cookies

Cinnamon Walnut Crackles

Cinnamon Walnut Crackles makes 2 dozen cookies 2 cups walnut halves 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Powdered Sugar for dusting (optional) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grind walnuts in a food processor until very finely ground. Add egg, powdered sugar, nutmeg and vanilla. Process until thoroughly blended. [...]

Easy-Peasy Chocolate & Peanut Butter fudge

Peanut butter fudge: 1 Cup Peanut Butter 1 Cup Butter 1 lb Powdered sugar 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 1. Microvave the butter and peanut butter together in a microwave-safe bowl for two minutes. 2. Stir 3. Microwave for two more minutes. 4. Add the vanilla and sugar and stir to combine. 5. Spread in a [...]

Chocolate Cream Pots

Chocolate Cream Pots

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Super Burger, Cucina Paradiso

An opening and a re-opening: – Penngrove’s dining scene continues to boom with the addition of The Original Superburger which opened last night. If the name sounds familiar, it’s a sibling to Santa Rosa’s popular Original Superburger on Fourth Street. The menu’s the same. Hours are 11-8 M-Sat, 11-3 Sunday. A spy who was on the [...]

Peanut Butter Bon Bons

Submitted by Teena Hardee MIX TOGETHER: 2 LB BAG OF CONFECTIONER’S SUGAR 2 STICKS OF BUTTER (SOFTENED) 3 CUPS OF PEANUT BUTTER BLEND UNTIL SOFT. IF TOO DRY YOU MAY ADD A LITTLE MILK TO MIXTURE. ROLL INTO BALLS AND PUT IN FREEZER WHILE YOU MAKE THE CHOCOLATE COATING. CHOCOLATE COATING IS TWO BAGS OF [...]

Petite Cheesecakes

Submitted by Teena Hardee You will need:1 – 2 cans Cherry Pie Filling and or Blueberry Pie Filling (whatever you like on top of your cheesecake) Blend together well till light and fluffy: Two 8oz pkgs. Cream Cheese -softened¾ Cup Sugar2 eggs1 tablespoon lemon juice1 teaspoon vanilla Place a mini vanilla wafer into tassy cup [...]

Eau de Flame Broiled?

Want to smell like a Whopper?

Soft Molasses Cookie recipe

Soft Molasses Cookie Recipe from the 2008 Holiday Cookie Contest

Cake cookies

Submitted by Rosalind Sandler 1 Duncan Hines moist yellow cake mix 1/2 C oil 2 large eggs Mix until blended Add: fruit, candy, nuts, whatever and mix Drop on parchment cover cookie sheets by rounded teaspoon Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. (I used golden and dark raisins, dried cranberries, dried apricots and walnuts pieces. [...]

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