Crisco Cookies

Crisco Cookies

All day long Ive been craving chocolate chip cookies made with shortening, not butter. Why? I don't know. So I drove to Wallmart in the rain at 11pm tonight just to buy Crisco. I used the recipe on the Crisco pkg. but changed it up a bit. They turned out lovely, of course.

Crisco cookies (my version)

3/4 cup butter flavored Crisco

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

2 T milk

1 T vanilla

3/4 t baking soda

1 t salt

2 1/3 cups flour

2 cups chocolate chips

Beat together Crisco, brown sugar, and white sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in egg, milk, vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Gradually mix in flour and chocolate chips till well mixed. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Makes 2 dozen cookies.

Spaghetti Pie

Im not much of a cook Im much more of a baker, so when I do cook its easy cooking. What Im trying to say is, I rarely make things from scratch. For me its usually mixing together a bunch of pre-made products and calling it a recipe. So I looked in the fridge today and saw an unoppened carton of ricotta cheese and I realized I had never used ricotta in a recipe berfore. So I was trying to decide between gnocchi and spaghetti pie and then I finally decided on spaghetti pie just because I know my dad would like it. Gnocchi just felt a little too risky. So I found a recipe in the BH&G cookbook but did a whole lot of imrovizing to where its definitly not the same recipe but it was definitly delicious and super easy so here you go...

Spaghetti Pie

6oz uncooked spaghetti

2 T butter

1 egg, beaten

1/2 cup parmesan, divided

1 15 oz container ricotta cheese

1 egg

2 T minced onion

1 T minced garlic

1 t salt

1 16 oz jar spaghetti sauce

1/2 LB ground Beef (or turkey or sausage)

1 cup mozzerella

Boil noodels 10 minutes. Drain noodles & return noodles to pan. Add butter, 1 egg, & then 1/4 cup parmesan. In seperate bowl; mix remainig parmesan with ricotta, 1 egg, onion, garlic, & salt. In another seperate bowl; mix spaghetti sauce & beef. Press spagetti mixture on base of 9x9 glass casserole dish. Top with ricotta mixture spreading evenly. Top the ricotta layer with the sauce/meat mixture spreading evenly. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes . Top the sauce/meat layer with mozerrela cheese covering the entire casserole. Bake at 350 for an additional 10 minutes.