Hippocratic Oats

C is for cookie

December 24, 2009 at 2:32 am Leave a comment

Although I love to cook and bake, I don’t always have the spare time to test out new recipes. Unfortunately, school tends to take up a lot of my time. My goal for the two weeks I have off for winter break is to test out at least 3 recipes that I’ve seen on some of my favorite blogs. One recipe that I’ve read about on both Carrots ‘N’ Cake and We are not Martha is for Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies. Yum! They looked super tasty in the pictures on both blogs, and I was just looking for an excuse to give the recipe a try. Luckily, I planned on spending the day with Richard today, and it seemed like the perfect holiday treat to bring over to his house. Click on Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies to see the recipe I used based on the We are not Martha post.

Candy Canes

Jeff helping me out with the chopping and crushing.

Almost finished…

Still working…

Whisking flour and salt

Mixing the butter. I love my mom’s Kitchen Aid Mixer!

I spooned out the dough before spreading it. Actually worked out quite well.

Chocolate in the melting stage…

Almost finished…

YUM. I LOVE white chocolate.

Finished and all packaged to head over to Richard’s!

  

The cookies took a little longer than expected to cool, and I got a late start heading over to Richard’s. When I finally got to Rome (1.5 hours later than I originally thought), I was so so so excited to finally see him. We spent the day catching up and eating super tasty food. I completely forgot to take pictures of just about everything I ate, but Richard’s mom made some of the best Pepperoni bread I’ve ever head for lunch. She even prepared some without pepperoni for me which was excellent. I’m not a big fan of beef (haven’t had it since I was 16), and I always appreciate when people are awesome about the whole not adding meat thing. For dinner we headed over to one of my favorite central NY restaurants, Teddy’s. I may or may not have had one of the GIANT onion rings and then a tasty “Vermont Country” salad with chicken fresh lettuce, grilled asparagus, beets, goat cheese and candied pecans, topped with balsamic dressing.

I missed Richard!

The one, the only, THE AMERICAN FLAG BLANKET!!! One of my favorite parts of the old apartment at 58 Perry.

Richard and I spent part of the afternoon playing with his old school NES and having a glass or two of wine. The perfect combo! We both were HUGE SMB fans back in the day. Although we disagree on our favorites (he’s a #2 guy and I prefer #3), we both have a special spot in our heart devoted to the memories of playing this system way back in the early 90’s. I was so surprised how easily it all came back to me. Maybe the wine helped jog my memory:)

  

All and all, it was an amazing day. Richard’s family was so welcoming, and Richard was an excellent host. Although it’s not nearly as fun as living with him, our Richard-Sarah reunions are always awesome. I miss you already Beau Beau

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