You can find the whole recipe here. Start by placing 4 ramekins on a baking sheet and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To make the Crisp Topping stir together the flour, sugar, chopped nuts and crushed gingersnaps (crush the cookies quickly in a food processor) in a bowl until combined. Work the butter into the dry ingredients until it becomes crumbly and kind of sandy. Set the Crisp Topping aside. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the frozen berries, sugar, cornstarch, 1/2 cup of the crisp topping and 2 or 3 tablespoon of orange liqueur (if using). Divide the mixture evenly between the four ramekins. Top each of the ramekins with approximately 1/2 cup of the remaining crisp (You will probably had some topping left over. Just store in a ziplock baggie in the freezer to use later). Place the ramekins on the sheet pan and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes until browned and bubbling. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before serving. Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a real treat!
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Ten hours from now, the last day, day 60, commences.
Maple-Walnut Oatmeal Cookies- adapted from the Martha Stewart Halloween Magazine
Makes 12 cookies (I made mine smaller so I ended up with around 20 cookies)
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
3/4 cups unsweetened finely shredded coconut (I used sweetened coconut, toasted in the oven)
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 stick plus 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons boiling water
1 cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
sea salt for sprinkling (i used this for sprinkling on the top of each cookie)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment or silpat. In a bowl, combine oats, toasted coconut, flour, salt and sugar. In a saucepan over medium heat, mix butter and maple syrup together until melted and combined. Hint: spray measuring cup with Pam before filling with maple syrup. The syrup will slide easily out of the measuring cup! Remove from heat. In a small bowl, combine baking soda and boiling water. Immediately stir into the butter mixture until combined. Stir into the oat mixture and fold in the toasted walnuts. At this point I covered the bowl of dough with plastic wrap and chilled in the fridge for around 30 minutes. The recipe doesn't call for doing this but I feel it really helps the wet ingredients fully incorporate with the dry ingredients creating a better tasting baked cookie. Form dough into 1/4 cup balls (I used a medium sized scoop and got a smaller cookie) and place on cookie sheet about 3 inches apart, 6 to a sheet. Flatten each ball slightly. I added a little sprinkle of sea salt to the tops of each cookie. Bake until golden brown and set, around 20 minutes. Transfer to wire rack to cool
Friday, like most days, I had a doughnut. Maybe not most days, but a few times a week. There is a metal cabinet on wheels, it has three doors. In the morning, opening any of these door envelops you in the smell of doughnuts, and they are inches from me, free for the taking.
Finally. I think I have found what is causing the pain in my lower back, SI joints and hips. It also may explain my fainting episode and continuing episodes of feeling close to fainting. Just the other day I was feeling a little fainting spell coming on and I was thinking it felt like my breathing was to shallow. This is what I have:
Ankylosing spondylitis
You can find the entire recipe for Salted Brown Butter Crispy Treats here. Start by buttering an 8x8 inch pan or you can do like I did and line the entire pan with aluminum foil and spray with Pam for super easy cleanup. Set the pan aside.
In a large pot melt a stick of butter on medium-low heat stirring frequently making sure to scrape the bottom of the pan. The butter will become foamy and then start to get golden brown. Watch the butter carefully and stir constantly because it goes from golden to burned quickly! When the butter looks nice and golden brown remove from the heat and quickly stir in the 10 oz. of marshmallows until they become all melted and smooth. Add in 6 cups of Rice Krispies Cereal and 1/4 tsp. of sea salt or you can use coarse kosher salt like I did. Mix well to coat and spoon the mixture into the prepared pan. Using a oiled spatula (or you can just spray some Pam on your hands like i did) press the mixture evenly into the pan. Make sure to press down very firmly as this will help ensure that your treats don't fall apart when you try to cut them. Let the treats cool completely in the pan. When cool, remove from pan and cut into small squares. To package mine for gift giving I simply cut some small squares of colored wax paper and placed in between the treats. I wrapped them up tightly in plastic wrap, taped the ends together and tied with a ribbon and added a tag. Easy and fun!
I am so glad they now run House Hunters International 5 nights a week at 7:00pm. Other than the episodes where people are looking for vacation homes in Costa Rica or Belize, I love this show. Especially when people are looking in Europe. I loved last night's episode in Amsterdam. It's amazing what a nice place you can get for under $250K in some of these European cities. Makes me contemplate selling Apgar Street and moving to Europe.
A BART employee is now off the job and facing serious charges for false imprisonment and soliciting a lewd act.
According to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office, it all took place while he was operating the train.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday they have charged veteran BART train operator Calvin Peter Tom in connection with an incident that took place on an eastbound train headed from the Rockridge station to Orinda on August 4.
Authorities said Tom invited a female passenger and a boy into the cab of the train.
Once they were both inside, Tom allegedly asked the woman if he could fondle her breasts and then he blocked her from leaving when she refused his advances.
A BART spokesman says Tom was immediately placed on unpaid leave and escorted off the property, but the 14-year employee decided to retire before he could be disciplined.
"Even without any sexual advances and false imprisonment charges, just bringing somebody into the cab could be a termination offense," said Linton Johnson, Chief BART Spokesman.
The woman managed to get off the train in Pleasant Hill and reported the incident to BART police.
"There was also a child in the cab with this female passenger," Johnson said. "So if all of these charges are true, then he has some serious answering to do before a judge and jury if this goes to trial."