This cookie packed with pumpkin is fun to dress up for Halloween. But can go it alone even without the icing. This recipe has been in the family for years. It’s just a very good pumpkin cookie recipe. Continue reading
Have you ever been stuck at home without chocolate and need a quick fix? Here it is. This can be mixed up in minutes and in less than an hour Double Fudge Chocolate Brownies! No need for a mixer … by hand works!
Delta View Elementary School District was in the middle of Kings County agriculture. It was country school small but Ag wealthy. It wasn’t an unpleasant place to teach … My first real job after college. The children were extraordinary. I briefly had our future 1991-2005 congressman in a math class. I would guess many of these students went on to promising careers.
Today, as I look back, how unaffected I was by all the craziness. Not quite Peyton Place!
My position was to teach kindergarten in the morning; and 5th and 6th grades, or was it 4th and 5th, in the afternoon when the principal took over his principal duties.
In kindergarten birthdays were celebrated with homemade cookies and milk. This cookie recipe was introduced to me at one of these birthdays. I have made changes to the original recipe but I still like to call these Tommy’s cookies. They are still delicious in today’s competition.
These Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies are crisp around the edges with just enough shortening to give them a little lift in the middle … making for a chewy center. The almonds add the crunch. Milk chocolate chips as well as raw almonds get lost in this cookie. So, I’ve added salted roasted almonds, and half semi-sweet and half milk chocolate chips instead. This cookie is my creation. I’ve been a lover of chocolate chip cookies and chocolate covered almonds for years. This is my attempt to bring the two together.