1 C. butter — softened
1/2 C. sugar, confectioners sugar
1 egg yolk
2 T. lemon juice
1 lemon zest — grated
2 1/4 C. flour
sugar for dipping
Glaze
1/4 C. sugar, confectioners sugar
1 T. lemon juice
1 drop yellow food coloring
Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookies sheets with parchment paper.
In a large bowl cream the butter and confectioners sugar with an electric mixer, add the egg yolk, lemon juice, and zest and beat until smooth. Add the flour and beat until well combined.
Form the dough into 1 inch balls and place them about 2 inches apart on the prepared sheets. Flatten each ball with the bottom of a glass dipped into granulated sugar to keep it from sticking to the dough. Bake the cookies in the middle of the oven for about 13 minutes, or until barely golden.
Transfer to wire racks. As soon as they are cool enough to handle, dip the top of each cookie in lemon glaze and allow to cool completely. store in airtight containers for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
To make the glaze: combine lemon juice, food coloring and sugar and whisk together
If you never try another recipe, you have GOT to try this one. It’s so yumm that I was a little skeptical to share it (**wink, wink**). Something this delicious should almost be a secret! It’s really easy, cheap, and pretty too! This makes enough for 1- 13 inch pan.
Ingredients:
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon Mexican vanilla extract
2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
3/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup honey
Directions:
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Prepare a 9×13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Beat the cream cheese with 1 cup of sugar and the vanilla extract in a bowl until smooth.
Unroll the cans of crescent roll dough, and use a rolling pin to shape each piece into 9×13 inch rectangles. Press one piece into the bottom of a 9×13 inch baking dish. Evenly spread the cream cheese mixture into the baking dish, then cover with the remaining piece of crescent dough. Stir together 3/4 cup of sugar, cinnamon, and butter. Dot the mixture over the top of the cheesecake.
Bake in the preheated oven until the crescent dough has puffed and turned golden brown, about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and drizzle with honey. Cool completely in the pan before cutting into 12 squares.
This recipe is parent & kids tested and approved. Enjoy!
You gotta read this. But please do me a favor before proceeding: Take one shot of Crown Royal, chase it with a cold coke, take another shot, repeat soda. Light a cigarette. Exhale. Maybe take a Zoloft. Yeah. Ok… Here we go…
My dad came and went already. There was all of this last minute chaos to get the house shaped up for company. Little things like installing some mirror in the bathroom, reinventing Austin’s room (I bought him Tarheel EVERYTHING decor while he was on vacation), putting down some thresholds in doorways, painting the chicken coop, mowing grass, really cleaning, etc. We all ran around like headless chickens but then he and his wife only visited for a couple of hours, had a beer, we went to dinner, and that was it… Not that I had any expectations at all. No. I guess I just spent all this time working up for this big massive event that ended up not really adding to my life in any way (other than making me entirely more grateful for my chosen family who were so supportive and loving while helping me to get ready).
I have mommy brain. I did discover that through the experience. My brain is absolute baby poop moosh, grape jello, and snotty boogers. My mind has officially left the building. Check this: I leave the house to go meet my dad and his wife at the airport yesterday. The airport is a 10 minute drive. I get about 2 miles from the airport and realize I am ON EMPTY. Don’t ask me how I did it. I usually try to have a half tank all the time. So, I call Jeremy in a tizzy and tell him I’m on E and the nearest gas station is not only 10 miles in the wrongdirection but I’m already barely going to get there in time as is. He tells me not to worry, the car will make it there and back home. The big thing for me was that I didn’t want to run out of gas while my dad was following me back to my house! How embarrassing! I am a 33 year old mother of four! How can I be so irresponsible!?
We made it back to my house and my dad was none the wiser to the whole incident. Shew. See, dad? I’m all growed up! See how big I am!?
This morning we decide to meet at McDonalds at 7:45 AM before he and his wife go on this day long tour of my area. The tour is from 8:30 until 4:30 and then he has to hit the road because he has to make it to another town by dark. So I’m meeting him at McDonalds to give him a map and to say our goodbyes because I won’t be able to see him after the tour because I have an ultrasound at 4:30. Right? You following me? Ok, so I leave in just enough time to meet my dad at McDonalds at 7:45. McDonalds is 25 minutes away, just to give you an idea of how far out we live. Ok, so I leave my little town, WHICH HAS A GAS STATION, and I head for the nearby town. I get literally 2 miles from the gas station in the nearby town and MY CAR RUNS OUT OF GAS!!! First of all… HELLfarginO, Steph! I forget to fill up with gas on the way out of my little town, even though I knew I was out of gas. I totally spaced that I was on empty until the car started sputtering and convulsing! Then I’m stranded on the side of the highway with all of my children and a pregnant belly and I’m supposed to meet my dad in just a few minutes. Soooo, long story short, I have to hitchhike (yes, durr, I thought it would be faster than waiting for Jeremy or AAA to rescue me) to the gas station. The people who pick me up wait until they are driving away from my car, and my children sitting in car, to tell me that they have to “run home” before they can take me to the station. WHA!? Their home is 10 miles in the opposite direction of the gas station! So 25 minutes and a lot of sweating because, hello, OMG, these people could be like the Craiglist psycho that cut the baby out of the woman’s belly, I finally made it back to my car. By this time it is too late to meet my dad because he’s already left on his tour. GREAT! So the only other option I have is to cancel my ultrasound and come BACK into town when he gets off the tour bus.
The nice people who gave me a ride asked me how far along I was and I replied, “Umm (GULP), I am 25 weeks.” I thought that if they were wombnappers, they wouldn’t steal a baby THAT early. Nevermind that my belly looks 9 months pregnant with triplets. LOL!
Needless to say I am completely FRAZZLED by 9 am, at which point I get to pay 2 thousand dollars (not even half the total cost) to the Orthodontist to have Austin’s braces put on. Can you spell badfuckingday? Yeah. Bad.
But I got my ultrasound rescheduled for tomorow, which was cool. I thought I’d have to wait weeks for another appointment. And I saw my dad off at 4:30. But now I need a vacation… Or maybe just a mommy bath.
I’m glad he came. I’m glad he finally got to meet my family and see this fantastic home and life we’ve made together. But I guess it was a little more short and superficial than I wanted. I’ll get into that more in another post. I’m pooped. Emotional overload.
Posted by: stepherz | 07-17-2009 | 03:07 AM
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The only moonwalking ever done was by our late Michael Jackson. Just my opinion. But I think the gov was full of crap when they told us they landed on the moon. And now they have remastered the lost footage? The lost footage? Did you know the “original” footage was lost in the first place?
“It’s surprising to me that NASA didn’t have the common sense to save perhaps the most important historical footage of the 20th century,” said Rice University historian and author Douglas Brinkley. He noted that NASA saved all sorts of data and artifacts from Apollo 11, and it is “mind-boggling that the tapes just disappeared.”
They didn’t save it because it was fake! And we’re a little smarter and a little more advanced now and they knew we’d bust them! So the entire original tape disappeared!
I asked Jeremy what his opinion was on why the government would make a moon walking hoax. He said that it’s because Russia and the US were both in Space competition and Russia was getting close to getting to the moon. So the US does this elaborate hoax to fool everyone into thinking we’ve already done it so Russia stops trying and America can make this big claim. Russia throws their hands up and says to hell with it, let’s build some space stations instead. I mean, why wouldn’t we have gone back if we ever went in the first place? All the money they waste on their projects and they have never tried to go back, just because it’s already been done?
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