Recipe chat

Sometimes I want to comment on the recipes, but the threads are so clean with recipes that I don't want to muck them up with chatter. So I started this thread so that we can just chat about food and perhaps the recipes we share.

I just made Gingersnap cookies. I had a recipe for them in my mom's old cookbook, then noticed that Mike (mrblanch) contributed his mom's recipe. I put them side to side and realized they were very close to each other So I modified both recipes to fall somewhere in the middle of the 2 and OMG they are yummy!! Thank you Mike for sharing that recipe!!

Realize that I hadn't baked cookies in years, and have never been good at improvising, as I don't entirely get the science of baking. So I'm proud of myself that I came up with changes that worked.

Thus far this season, I've made Rum Balls (done over Thanksgiving to give them the proper time to marinade), Crescent Cookies, Chocolate Balls, Gingersnaps and Pecan Kisses (they are still cooling so haven't tasted them yet). Tomorrow I make Swedish Macaroons, my Chocoholic Chocolate Chunks (posted in cookies thread), and Lemon Drops.

I'm on a roll. It's nice to have time to do this.

You know what? This is a great idea! Thanks for doing this!

Sounds like you've been baking up a storm! I'm done with cookies and never want to see another cookie for as long as I live (well, at least for a month or anyway). I did Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Crinkles, Drop Sugar Cookies, Christmas Bells, Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Biscotti, Cranberry and Orange Biscotti, Peanut Butter Cookies, Noel Gems (a new thumbprint-type cookie that I wanted to try), Maple Cut-out Cookies, Molasses Crinkles, and Raisin Puffs. I wanted to make Mike's Mom's Gingersnap cookies, but just ran out of time.

On Wednesday night I did AB's White Trash....I don't know why people seem to like it, but it's rather addictive. While it was cooling, everytime Rick would walk into the kitchen, he'd grab a chunk. And when I brought some into work on Thursday, one of my co-workers said, "Well, it's about time!"

I'm going to check out your Chocoholic Chocolate Chunks.

I am sooooooo done with cookies also, but alas, I haven't finished rolling out a batch and have to stop procrastinating and do that this morning. I made the dough Thursday night and that recipe said to put it in the fridge overnight. Well, it's been 2 overnights and I'm secretly hoping that the dough has dried out and can't be rolled this morning. This recipe is DH's grandma's Kolocky cookies - a tradition in his family since grandma brought the recipe over with her from Poland. I don't know if the recipe works - someone had to grab her hand when she was making it and measure the ingredients that she was dropping into the cookies by hand. The base is cream cheese, not butter or shortening that you find in most cookies. You roll them, cut them into circles, and drop preserves in the middle before baking. Grandma used to fill them with apricot, cheese or prune filling. I chose raspberry.

I have so many cookies right now that I'm trying to figure out how to give them away. I think some of our nicer neighbors are going to get a plate of cookies from me today.

Honestly, I never want to see another cookie for as long as I live.....or at least a couple of months! We had mailed out cookie packages to several people and they all seemed to like them. Took a bunch into work and I'm taking the rest of them into work tomorrow.

Your Kolocky cookies sound really delicious. (I have a recipe for a Spritz cookie with uses a base of butter and cream cheese. The dough is chilled and then put through a cookies press.) I have a recipe for Cranberry Kolaches....made with yeast dough and whole-berry cranberry sauce. I really did want to try it, but simply ran out of time. I may try it around the end of January now; we'll be more in the mood for something sweet by then (I think).

My homemade marshmallow were a big hit again. I rolled some of them in cocoa and some in toasted coconut. And sent them off in my cookie packages. People said that they liked to just eat the coconut ones, but they loved plopping a cocoa marshmallow in hot chocolate.....which is what we do at home, too.