Chinese New Year 2012

We had a blast celebrating the Year of the Dragon!  Celebrating the Chinese New Year is one of our favorite traditions.  We invited two families over to share in the festivities.  We made our favorite  Butter Yaki and Egg Rolls.  It is always soooo good!  We then played our traditional Chinese Proverb game- (like Balderdash) and had Fortune Cookies and oranges.  Good times!

Egg Rolls

2 c. chopped chicken breast.  I fry it in a little oil with garlic salt then chop it up.

1 garlic clove

After chicken is cooked add:

1 c. chopped green onion

1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbl. sugar
31/2 Tbs. soy sauce
1/2 lb bean sprouts
1/2 c. shredded carrots
1 head thin sliced cabbage
1 egg slightly beaten

Cook until cabbage is softened.  Let mixture cool.  Using egg roll skins- form into rolls following directions on package.  Deep fry.  Makes about 21 Egg Rolls.

Saturday Special

Hope your Saturday is as fun as ours!

Nice shot Seth!

Sharp Shootin'

We spent a couple of hours getting more comfortable with our guns.  

What a great afternoon!

FHE Treat- Deep Dish Cookies

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips- we used mini to spead the love out more!

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Spray your muffin top pan generously with cooking spray. Set aside.
3. In your stand mixer, cream together butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
4. Add in your eggs, one at a time and vanilla. Mix on medium until combined.
5. Turn mixer to low and add baking soda, salt and flour.
6. Stir until just combined.
7. Stir in your chocolate chips and mix until incorporated.
8. Press 1/4 cup dough into each cavity in the pan.
   Bake approx 12 minutes until edges are golden.
9. Let cool in pan 11-13 minutes.
10. Gently loosen sides with knife and twist out, or flip pan over onto cooling rack to remove cookies.
11. Repeat with remaining dough.

Makes 9-10 deep dish cookies. Serve warm. Top with ice cream. To reheat cookies, place on a microwave safe plate for 15 seconds.

If you don’t have a muffin top pan, you can still make these cookies.  Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 8-9 minutes.

You can also put a Dove chocolate in the middle and have kind of a molten lava effect.  

These were Heavenly!

Mexi Feast

Wow!  The weather has been divine!

We headed down to Alpine for our annual Mexi-Feast and Christmas sibling gift swap!

Every year around this time my mouth starts watering for green chili burros!  

GmaT makes them heavenly!

We got outside and enjoyed the sunshine for a bit.  Then we had to take off all too soon!

2012 is off to a great start!