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 ...
With the Christmas tree curbside, and the ornaments all neatly packed away, I'm thankful for my small collection of winter decorations that can be left out a bit longer to grace my home with their snowy sparkle and winter whimsy. I would have loved to have had the time to share this sweet little tutorial earlier in the season, but the holidays were busy (as they always are). Now that things have slowed down, this may be, perhaps the best time of all to fix yourself a mug of cocoa or coffee and enjoy the process of creating a vintage style paper mache snowman at your leisure. He is sure to bring smiles to all that behold him, all winter long! This is the snowman that my 7-year old made. The real stick arms were her wonderful idea! This is a fun project t o do with children as well. The process is very simple , versatile, and inexpensive. The fram e for the figure is ma de from aluminum foil which can be worked into the shape of characters for any occas...
I LOVE decorating for Halloween and look forward, all year, to opening up my boxes full of Halloween folk art pieces. I'm a big fan of antique German papier mache and the contemporary works of Nicol Sayre, Dee Foust and Rick Conant. Drawing my inspiration from those whimsical, collectible pieces from both past and present, I've come up with an easy and very inexpensive tutorial for making pumpkin primitives at home. Dollar Store Pumpkin Folk Art TUTORIAL Materials A foam pumpkin from the dollar store (or you can use a larger one from the craft store) Pumpkin carving knife (or other small serrated knife) Sharpie pen Paper Mache paste (recipe below) Newspaper, cut into strips Acrylic paints (orange, yellow, brown, black) DecoArt Americana Staining/Antiquing Medium DecoArt Americana Acrylic Paint in "Asphaltum" Folk Art Pumpkin Eyes/Mouth printed on plain white copy paper (download for free HERE ) Tacky Glue Black Wire Pencil Bamboo ske...
