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         Ingredients 1   cup   butter   2 sticks 1   cup   brown sugar 3/4   cup   granulated sugar 2   eggs 2   tsp   Butavan 3   cups   all-purpose flour 1   tsp   baking soda 1   tsp   table salt 1   cup   semi-sweet chocolate chips 1   cup   M&M’s  3/4 cups pecans Instructions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees  Cream butter & sugars together until  Mix in eggs & vanilla Add in the flour, baking soda & salt & mix well. Fold in chocolate chips & M&M’s & pecans Use a large cookie scoop & scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or until the tops are just barely golden brown. (My oven needed 12 minutes) Cool on baking rack. New recipe for me & will definitely be making again!! Yum.   I edited the instructions a little.  I know they tell you when recipe writing to write eve...

One of my favorite singers Gordon Lightfoot died on May 1 at the age of 84.  I wrote a post earlier called 'If You Could Read My Mind' & that's a song the Gordon wrote. The post veered into a different direction but that's how it started.  And it's one of my favorite songs. He has a wonderful voice.  And is a great songwriter.  He's also Canadian royalty.  I watched a documentary about him & he had an interesting life.  He played guitar but went to school in LA to learn how to write songs.  Seriously I've never heard of a songwriter who did that, though it's probably happened for other people. And he was on the road for years, doing concerts to the end of his life. I'd heard at the end he'd lost some of his voice but everything I've read about his concerts, everyone seemed to have a good time. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'  is an amazing song abut a shipwreck.  It's haunting because it was a real event.  It's li...

  The first week of June, I drove up to Colorado Springs to visit with my Uncle D, my mom's youngest brother & the last of my uncles & his wife S.  He's 82 & she's a little younger.  I wanted to spend time with them while there is still time.   The trip was up through NW Texas & NE NM, to Colorado.  Drive was about 7 hours...we can fly in about 6 (with a Dallas layover)...dumb. The road took me a long way around because of rain flooding.  Once I got past the feed lot capital of Texas, Hereford the drive was pretty.  To be fair Hereford was nice, once you got past the smell.   I stopped in Dalhart at the Sonic & to gas up & pit stop & the workers at the Sonic & gas station did not know what the next town was.  Have neither ever been out of town?  It scares me a little.  And while Google maps tells me where the next turn is, it does not tell me the towns I'll be going through.  That's on ...

These are MY daddy's beans. 14 years too late After my mom went to the nursing home, my poor daddy never got a pot of beans in his home again.  I tried cooking them on the stove & could never get them to work.  I'd follow a recipe but they'd always burn down b4 done or if they made it to the bitter end, they were either actually bitter or had no taste at all.  Nothing worked.  We had to live with canned beans.  I'm a terrible daughter. So today, on Father's Day 2023 I was determined to make beans, in my daddy's honor.  I was going to slow cook in instapot but decided to try using the pressure cooker function.  I have never used a pressure cooker before & remember growing up they were dangerous.  Mom would run us out of the kitchen when she opened it.  I found a few recipes on Pinterest & used some imagination & combined a few & this is what I made: Billie's Daddy's Beans 16 oz pinto beans 1 small onion 1 tsp Cumin 1 T Garl...

Swedish Chicken   Last week I spent time with my uncle & aunt in Colorado & ate more good food than I've had in years. My aunt is a great cook.  One of the dishes she made was Swedish Meatballs. It was really good though for the record, I'm not much on meatballs unless I make them myself.  I always question what's in them. I know it's strange. So today, I decided to make some but with chicken.  I modified a recipe I found online & it was pretty good. So here goes: Swedish Chicken ? 2 medium chicken breasts Egg noodles Sauce: 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 cup chicken broth (Chicken flavored Better than                                               Bullion) 2 T sour cream 1/2 small onion 1 cup mushrooms Salt & Pepper to taste 1 T corn starch Cooked chicken breasts in air fryer for 20 minutes, turning over once.  I spritzed with v...

“My forest is dark, the trees are sad, and all the butterflies have broken wings.”- Raine Cooper.

One of my favorite goofballs, John Astin