Featuring my thick and nuggy Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies, these ice cream sandwiches are the stuff that summer dreams are made of. If you've ever had the Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich at Disneyland , you are going to LOVE these! These big and bold chocolate chip cookies are based on a recipe from my culinary school studies at Auguste Escoffier, but with a few modifications to give them that Jennuine touch. They make the perfectas book for a fat slice of real vanilla bean ice cream. And those mini chips? You just gotta have that extra cronch! Thank goodness this recipe only makes 8 sandwiches, otherwise I would be eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner. This way, my big family can help save me from my inner child diet-saboteur. Print With Image Without Image Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Yield: 8 Author: Jenn Erickson Loaded with chocolate chips and buttery, brown-sugary vanilla flavor, these mall-sized cookie...
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ONE WARM COAT ~ A HEARTWARMING CAUSE
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Is your child's school, club, or team looking for a way to make a difference in their community this winter?
Consider a "ONE WARM COAT" DRIVE: It's as easy as printing up a flyer, setting out a box, and registering with "One Warm Coat" online to get connected with agencies in your area that will distribute the coats to people in need during the cold winter months.
"Take a peek in your closet,
garage or chest
to help out those not quite so blessed.
Should you find a coat
you do not wear
Just bring it here to show you care.
It’s getting cold
And you may find
It warms your heart to be so kind.
Coats and Jackets: New and old
Recycled here to fight the cold .
It doesn’t matter: Big or small
Our humble box accepts them all."
~ Troop #2033's One Warm Coat Poem
I am proud to say that this will be the third year that my daugher's Brownie troop will be organizing a "One Warm Coat" drive at Forest Grove School. The first year the girls put out a big box in front of the school office that looked like a stack of presents. Nearly two-hundred new and used coats were generously donated by families from the school. When the drive was over, a representative from the Salvation Army came and spoke to the girls about what their organization does, and took the coats for distribution to the families of migrant farm workers in our area.
The second year we created a "Warmth-o-Meter" out of foam board: as the donations came in the mercury rose indicating how much warmth the collective generosity was generating. We collected more than 500 coats! The girls were excited! The school was excited! And a representative from Monterey County Family to Family came to recieve the coats and talk to the girls about the role they play in our community helping women and families that are without homes.
This year the box and Warmth-O-Meter are back and the donations have been pouring in! It's so simple and so rewarding!
There are no costs required to organize a One Warm Coat drive.
Most tools and resources are available on the website, free of charge.
To organize a coat drive in your community, simply:
3) Connect with a local charity that will distribute the coats you've collected to people in need. ONE WARM COAT can help you do this on their website.
I recall, as a child, going to The Chart House restaurant and looking forward to the basket of freshly baked breads. My favorite was always the dark brown, slightly sweet bread that the servers called "Squaw Bread". I've heard that a similar bread is served at The Cheesecake Factory. The name has gone out of fashion, since "squaw" is a derogatory term for a Native American woman. The history of this bread can in fact trace its roots to Native American origins when German pioneers combined their traditional German Brown Bread recipe with ingredients available to them through trades with the native people during their westward travels. No matter how you slice it, this New World German Brown Bread is easy to bake and so wonderfully delicious to eat. Print With Image Without Image New World German Brown Bread Yield: 1 large loaf Author: Jenn Erickson Prep time: 1 H & 50 M Cook time: 45 M Total time: 1 ...
Who doesn't love a pie that you can eat with one hand while vacuuming, updating a resume, getting a child down for a nap, helping another child with a history report, and folding laundry with the other? Clearly, only people who don't like pie, and this isn't for them. This is for us: Pie People. For me, the pocket pie obsession started in childhood with the iconic, mouth scalding MacDonalds apple pies. If you were around in the 1970s, you'll remember: crisp & flaky, buttery & slightly salty, with blistered crusts that concealed a molten center of perfect apple pie filling. If you possessed the willpower to wait for the lava interior to cool, you were rewarded with the greatest American invention since the fast food burger AND the apple pie together, which in a weird sort of way, they were; after all, they were fried in beef fat. Those things were pure magic (or at least that's what my 6-year old self thought). These da...
When I was a kid, my favorite board game was CLUE . I loved the mystery, the intrigue and taking on the role of amateur sleuth. I've passed my love of the game down to my two girls, and I was excited when my youngest expressed an interest in having a CLUE party for her birthday this year. Here's what we did: The Invitations To set a dramatic tone for the party, I created invitations inspired by the playing cards from the original board game. The invitations came in two parts -- a Character Card that introduced the character assigned to the guest and a Party Card that included all the details for the party. To further link the party to the game, we glued a weapon piece from the board game to each party card (which we were able to purchase as a lot from Ebay). You can download the invitations for free below: Party Card, side A Party Card, side B * I created a mystery party experience that was child-friendly, and the kids ...
