I Could Have Been a Cookie Baker if I Had Known!

 I tried to bake cut-out cookies. They were so cute. But, I was sick of dough rolling around the rolling pin, sick of cookies not transferring to the baking sheet neatly, sick of failure. So, I just made drop cookies or ones that were to be rolled into a ball to bake. 

There were things I heard, but, until now, I had never read a comprehensive means of baking cut-out cookies. So, Baking Cookies. Who knew? I suppose lots of people, just not me. 

This would have been a great skill to learn in Home Economics in hs. But, noooo, they only taught what I knew. Of course, most of the girls did not know the basic of cooking. 

For some reason I deleted lots of comments today, comments from two posts. So, maybe I can reply here.

Belinda, Good to know there is another avid Mike and Molly fan.

Debbie, thanks for pointing out that Chef was talking about tubs and not chicken sign. 

One, sign was probably made in China just like the one on Temu. So, cheaper from Temu.

Sandie, correct--yum blueberries.

When I find more unanswered questions, I will comment. occasionally, I will accidentally delete a comment, but not so many as today. 

Did you know all these tips for mixing, cutting, cooling, and baking cookies? 

Did you, like me, just giving up on using cookie cutters? (well, I use cookie cutters for other things)

"I don't mean to be rude, but..."

Then, reader, you went on to be rude! I am tired of it, so I will be moderating  all comments.

Don't explain to me that if I had ever had good chocolate, I would know how awful that Hershey's chocolate is. I have had "good" chocolate! I like it. I love Hershey's. I grew up on it. It is easily found in this small town. If that makes me low class in your book, keep it to yourself.

And, you put down my love of Kraft cheese. So, it is rubbery. I like it. I like other cheeses, too.  So, it is rubbery.

It is your demeaning attitude that irks me. If you just disagreed with me, I could handle that!

You probably don't like a lot of foods that I love. I no longer care about you or what you like or dislike because of your high-falutin attitude! By the way, "highfalutin" means "pretentious."

You had to connect yourself to Queen Elizabeth, Givenchy, and implied that somehow made you...what?

Oh, and worst of all, you brought up race as though that is why I dislike Meghan Markle so much. How dare you??? You do not know enough about me, or you would not accuse me of being a racist! You wanted to stir up trouble and make others doubt me.

I could go on, showing how you try to elevate yourself at the expense of others. What does that do for you? How insecure are you? What is there in your life that you are trying to hide or cover up?

As far as I am concerned, you can never come back. You think that being Canadian is better than being from the American South? Think again. Fortunately, I do not judge all Canadians by you.

I despise moderating comments!!! So, you have gotten on my last nerve. And, I pity you. You seem to have little and want to be more than you are. So, you run down others by looking down your nose at them. Do you feel elevated yet?

And, you hide behind the anonymity of no email address to contact you. Your name probably isn't even the one you post under.

Comments ???

Some days on some blogs, I cannot access and use the comments part of the blog. Yesterday and today, it was and is impossible to respond to Nan's comment. It drives me crazy. On other blogs I cannot get the comment section to come up. Drives me crazy! I think I spent about an hour trying to respond to her comment. Finally, I typed one four-letter word that took me five minutes to type. I was just exhausted when I finished.

That is the most often and consistent problem with my blog and other blogs. Does this happen to anyone else?

Yogurt Substitution Guide

I mentioned to someone that I loved Greek yogurt. She said it was too tart for her taste. ??? I just was dumbstruck because I think Greek yogurt is less tart. Since I only buy plain yogurt to mix with fresh fruit, I was surprised. Cabot is the brand I prefer because it has fewer ingredients. On the tub is the following substitution chart.

Even though I bought the 10% this time, next time I will purchase 2%.

                   

Use Greek Yogurt in place of other higher-calorie, higher-fat ingredients.


Although this is not really expensive, I am going to make yogurt from this extra-thick Cabot Greek yogurt. I do have the yogurt maker given me from Freecycle, but next time I will use my dehydrator, making yogurt in half-pint jelly jars.

I will also cut the chart above from the yogurt carton just in case they decide to quit printing it on the carton. Or, I might buy another brand if this one is unavailable.

Tonight, I will have new potatoes mashed on my plate with a dollop of yogurt.

Your turn
Do you ever eat Greek yogurt? Plain or not? Maybe you just hate yogurt? Do you ever make homemade yogurt?