Zucchini Bread

This will either make one large loaf or two smaller loafs. Instead of using flour to dust the pans, these are good dusted with sugar.

“Pirate” Peanut Butter Cookies for “Talk Like a Pirate Day”

The Christie company out of Canada sells boxes of Pirate Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies which this is a copycat recipe for. Not sure why they chose the name “Pirate”, but the recipe caught my eye as we were looking for a new way to celebrate “Talk like a Pirate Day” this year. This is a combination of a few recipes and added chocolate chips.

The oatmeal cookies are good plain or filled.

Apple Cider Donuts

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Apple cider is usually too sugary for the yeast to grow properly. If you want to try to omit the water to make a stronger cider mix, be sure to proof the yeast first. We used home made unprocessed apple cider for these and they had a nice cider taste.

Brisket, Smoked

This is not an exact recipe, but it is a great starting point.

Cookie Dough (with baked flour)

Chocolate peanut butter, Oatmeal cookie and White chocolate pecan cookie dough. These were good, but plain chocolate chip was a favorite.

These doughs also freeze well and are very good added to ice cream.

Panic Butter Almond Cookies (GF, DF)

Adrian and two friends came home for Christmas break. They really wanted to cook, but needed to keep the recipe gluten free and dairy free. Over spring break, they perfected this recipe.