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December 1, 2016
Recipe: Ultimate Nut Scones
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Recipe: Ultimate Nut Scones
Ultimate Nut Scones (I’ve already eaten two 
)
Since I’ve begun baking for local charity bake sales, I’m resurrecting recipes I haven’t used in years. This is one of the all-time best scone recipes you’ll ever eat.
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tspns. cream of tartar
3/4 tspn. baking soda
6 Ts butter
1/2 cup nuts
2 eggs
1 T milk
GLAZE: (I skip the glaze — unnecessary!)
More milk
Granulated sugar
NOTE: Don’t use walnuts. Chopped macadamia nuts are AWESOME!
Heat oven to 425°F. Combine flour, sugar, cream of tartar and baking soda. Cut in butter. Stir in nuts. Separately, combine eggs and 1 T milk. Add to dry ingredients, stir until just moistened. Form dough into a ball.
On a lightly floured surface, roll or pat dough into a circle, 3/4 inch thick and about 7 inches dia. Cut into 6-8 wedges. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Brush with additional milk if desired, and sprinkle with sugar if desired. Bake in 425°F oven for 12 to 15 mins. or until golden.
6-12 scones.
November 14, 2016
It's Been a While
It’s Been a While
Ladies and Gentlemen, I know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, but my planets have been out of alignment. I’ve been reading a series of books so terrible, that I hesitated to waste your time bothering with reviews. Currently, I am reading a law textbook (for fun!), and it will take some time to wade through it. I’m still around; I’m just being quiet for the time being.
November 7, 2016
Are you a recipe addict?
Love my fellow foodies!!
October 26, 2016
Lottery Tickets
When I was young, I would see photos of lottery winners in the newspaper, or in TV ads, and, bizarrely to me, it was 99% older people. When asked what they would do with the money, it was always to put the grandchildren through college. I have no grandchildren, but I now qualify for the age bracket where the winners always seemed to fall. And so, I play the lottery twice a week. So far, I am a big loser, and my money is cannon fodder for the winners, but I’m not dead yet, so there’s still time.
Wish me luck, and maybe I’ll share (not!).
October 23, 2016
Book Review: Final Table, by Pati Nagle (4 coffee beans)
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Book Review: Final Table, by Pati Nagle (4 coffee beans)
I received a free copy of Final Table, by Pati Nagle, through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.
The title “Final Table” made me think this book was going to be a British drawing room drama, but that’s wrong. The premise of it, a poker game made up of five murdered players, grabbed me immediately.
A wizard owns a casino for magical people in Atlantic City. In order to drum up more business, he reanimates five men who had been gamblers in life and who were murdered for it, including Wild Bill “James” Hickok and his famous hand of aces and eights. The five men came from different times in history, but whose names would draw a crowd. They would play Texas Hold-’em poker. The winner would receive $1 million and his life back. The four losers would revert back to being dead.
Pati Nagle did a great job of painting a set of interesting characters. I take back one star out of five because the book needed one more chapter. The author documented how the losing four players came to lose and what happened to them. We’re left with the winner, but there is no follow-up to see where he went and what he did with his winner’s prizes. He’s not even congratulated by the owner of the casino who orchestrated the game.
I enjoyed this book, but I have to call it unfinished.
Final Table, by Pati Nagle
Recipe: Elvis Muffins
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Recipe: Elvis Muffins
These muffins are an homage to Elvis and his love for fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. If one can call a muffin “refreshing,” this would be the one.
2 cups flour
3 tspns baking powder
1/2 tspn salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar (use it)
2 eggs
1-1/3 cups mashed bananas (3 medium)
1 cup chopped black walnuts
1 cup peanut butter chips
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Cream together bananas, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy, using electric mixer on a medium speed. Beat in eggs, one at a time, blending well after each addition.
Add dry ingredients all at once, stirring just enough to moisten. Gently mix in chopped nuts and chips. Spoon batter into muffin tin papers, filling almost full.
Bake in 350 dgrF oven 20 mins. or until golden brown.
Makes 16.
