{"id":3043,"date":"2012-03-17T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2012-03-17T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:59:47","slug":"blog-resurrection-whats-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"Blog resurrection&#8230; What&#8217;s Cooking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My poor blog didn&#8217;t even remember me when I tried to log-in&#8230; that&#8217;s a bad sign isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m going to try to resurrect things here. \u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/hannahcrafted.wordpress.com\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katymccay.com\/\">sweet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rhealanefamilies.blogspot.com\/\">friends<\/a> have inspired me, and there are so many sweet\/funny\/delicious\/memorable things I could be sharing&#8230; as much for our looking-back pleasure as for others to enjoy. \u00a0So here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with notable recipes, because there have a been a few lately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recipegirl.com\/2012\/03\/15\/reuben-bread\/\">Rueben Braid<\/a> was AMAZING. \u00a0My apologies to everyone who&#8217;s heard me rave about it in person, on Twitter or on Facebook. \u00a0But I cannot believe how easy it was, how impressive it looked, and how everyone in the family ate it. \u00a0Surely I&#8217;ll be making it often. (notes: I filled mine with turkey &amp; swiss and a little Thousand Island dressing. Don&#8217;t skimp on the cheese. \u00a0Roll it out directly on your parchment or heavily flour your mat. \u00a0Otherwise, you&#8217;ll have a hard time transferring it. And it won&#8217;t rise much, but it will rise in the oven.)<\/li>\n<li>I made these sweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confessionsofacookbookqueen.com\/2012\/02\/chocolate-strawberry-donuts\/\">Chocolate Strawberry Donuts<\/a> for Valentine&#8217;s Day. \u00a0Delicious. This morning I used the same recipe with a French Vanilla Cake mix &amp; mini chips (this morning&#8217;s treat) with a chocolate glaze&#8230; so yummy. \u00a0When you need a chocolate donut, though, this <a href=\"http:\/\/momadvice.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/fluffy-baked-chocolate-donuts\">recipe<\/a> cannot be beat. I think the coffee makes the flavor stand out more. YUM. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingarthurflour.com\/shop\/items\/standard-doughnut-pan\">donut pan<\/a> and you like breakfast treats, it&#8217;s so worth having. And I was over-the-moon excited to find a cute heart-shaped donut pan at Target for $5. \u00a0WOOHOO!<\/li>\n<li>Thin Mints&#8230; you might have seen on Facebook that January\/February was super busy with Girl Scout cookies. \u00a0My sweet little Brownie sold 203 boxes initially (which &#8220;won&#8221; her a fleece roll-up blanket thingy &#8211; wooho! and yes, a tiny bit of sarcasm there&#8230;), and in the continued orders\/booth sales, she boosted her total to 324 boxes. \u00a0Whew! \u00a0That is ALOT of boxes of cookies to deliver, to say nothing of the money-tracking for Mom. Oddly enough, I didn&#8217;t end up with quite as many boxes for myself as I did last year. And I&#8217;m down to only 2 boxes of Thin Mints already. Sadness. \u00a0But this week, I used two boxes in recipes that were really worthy of those precious cookies. \u00a0I made these melt-in-your-mouth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confessionsofacookbookqueen.com\/2011\/03\/thin-mint-truffles\/\">Thin Mint Truffles<\/a> as a little Spring Break treat for the teachers. \u00a0I made them last year for a MOPS mom who had just had a baby, and she loved them so much, she could hardly wait for Girl Scout cookie season to arrive so she could make them (note&#8230; I think, as a last resort, you could probably use Keebler Grasshopper cookies. But that wouldn&#8217;t be quite as special). \u00a0I also made these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confessionsofacookbookqueen.com\/2012\/03\/thin-mint-ice-cream-cups\/\">Thin Mint Ice Cream Cups<\/a> (from the same awesome blog!) for our weekly Life Group. They were, of course, well-received.<\/li>\n<li>I just wondered about the delicious Girl Scout Samoas cookies and how they&#8217;d work in a truffle&#8230; Lo and behold, the same amazing blogger made them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confessionsofacookbookqueen.com\/2011\/03\/samoa-truffles\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to try them soon!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough for now&#8230; I promise I&#8217;ll be back with more little news and recipes soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poor blog didn&#8217;t even remember me when I tried to log-in&#8230; that&#8217;s a bad sign isn&#8217;t it? 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