Favorite Recipes

These are a few favorites and I add on from time to time.  There are quite a few recipes on my blog and if you google "Crazy Suburban Mom Recipes" they will pop up for you.  Until then enjoy these!

Anti-Telemarketer Cookiewhich

I came up with this dessert a while back and  it's everything I love in a dessert.  It's quick, it's got only two (or three ingredients),  requires no baking, and my kid loves it...

OREO MINT COOKIEWICHES

It's  the perfect pantry dessert if you live in a world where Oreo Cookies and Mint Chip Ice Cream can sit around unmolested.  I wouldn't know anything about that, I don't live there.

1.  Split Oreo Cookies, put one chocolaty top aside.

2.  Put a little baby scoop (about a tablespoon) of Chocolate Mint Chip Ice Cream on one half of the cookie.

3.  This is optional - Drizzle with a little bit of Magic Shell. 

4.  Top with the other half of the cookies...

Yum!  I mean, done.

If you had a bad day or have PMS; someone stole your parking space or that telemarketer called for the fifth time while you were in the bathroom you might (rightly feel) the need for copious amounts of chocolate to soothe the edges of life.  If so,  you can Magic Shell the heck out of the cookies.  Just squirt away and then put them in the freezer to harden (It won't harden on the cookies otherwise)  

Take that you, Telemarketer.

*Please have fun with this and remember it’s a recipe; not a calculus problem.  Don’t get bogged down on fiddle-faddle about precise amounts.  You’re scooping little balls of mint chip ice cream; not figuring how long it will take the light from the last chip on the right to reach the moon. 

Love and fiddle-faddle,

Tracy

Best Ever Egg Salad

I'm having some family over tomorrow and made egg salad for  many.  I used a baker's dozen of eggs.

I going to post the recipe since it's easy,  I love it and making hard boiled eggs seems to be a matter of contention.

Based on everything I've read I don't do it right and I don't know what to say about that.  It just works for me.  It always works. 

I put however many eggs I need in a pot, cover with about an inch of cold water (has to be cold), set the burner to med-high (to pretty darned high - so I guess I'm saying just short of high-high.  But if you have a really good stove not like me that boils fast I'm thinking you would need to set it lower) ,  set the timer for 20 minutes and leave it cook, uncovered.

That's it.  Yes, the eggs dance around a bit and sometimes if I'm only cooking an egg or two I'll turn down the burner a little but mostly I don't...   When the timer goes off I put the screaming hot eggs in an ice bath, stir them around for a minute or two, crack them a little - Stir, stir, stir them again for a few minutes and then peel them under running water.

They peel really easy. 

So for the egg salad I did that with 13 eggs and left them to dry for a little while.  When I was ready I mixed in a bowl about:

1/4 cup minced sweet onion
1/4 cup minced celery (use the inside stalks for this)
1/2 cup of mayonnaise
the juice from half a lemon
an 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of Coleman's Dry Mustard depending on how much kick you want - I used 1/4 - My family gets whiny about food that kicks them.
a teaspoon of salt
a few grind of pepper

For the eggs I slice them on a egg slicer.  One of these...

 But mine's not as nice as that one and is starting to rust.

I slice them long way, then the other but you can cut them any way you want; you want smallish pieces not mush.  Then mix with the mayo mixture.

This is really delicious - If you've never added lemon juice SURPRISE!  it's great! - and so much better then the stuff they sell at deli counters... And way, way cheaper.

Why bake when you can melt?

I can't bake but it's that time of year so I drag out my recipes and melt up some cookies.

And no one misses the baking aspect; try it.

You lay out pretzels on a lined cookie sheet...

Pop on a Rolo

And bake for 4 minutes at 300 degrees...

They look identical when you pull them out but they are a-foolin' ya. They are meltly and squishable! Squish a pecan (roasted and salted is best taste-wise) into the center and let cool. I put mine outside (It's a balmy 22 degrees today) because they don't seem to harden back up and, Oh!Oh! ....

Oh!

My son doesn't like nuts so in his I squish either a Hershey's Kiss or a semi-sweet morsel, whatever I have.

Danger Alert of the Most Unattractive Sort!   Hershey's kisses do not work in place of Rolo's; they melt into the most unattractive (think dog poo from a sick dog) mess in the oven.   Kisses can be used instead of the nut at then end, but not for the melty part.

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