Lazy Mama's

Hello lovely followers! Today I’m posting my easy but delicious sugar cookie recipe m, just in time  for you to make with your littles for Christmas. These cookies are a hit and melt in your mouth 🤤 Ingredients: -3/4 cup softened butter(not melted) that’s about 1.5 sticks -4 Oz softened cream cheese; half a brick -1cup sugar -1 egg -1/2 tsp. Salt -1/2 tsp. Baking powder -1/3 tsp. Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp. Almond extract -Zest of a medium to large lemon -3 cups all purpose flour You can double the ingredients to double the recipe. I do that every season because we give our friends some. Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees -In large mixing bowl( I use my kitchen aide mixing stand) cream the butter, cream cheese, sugar and eggs until combined. Once combined add the salt, baking powder, both extracts, and the egg until that’s combined. Then add the flour one cup at a time until well combined. Side note: After it’s combined I use my hands to get the bottom ingredien...

Many moons ago (we shall not talk age here) a friend of mine shared her recipe for cut out cookies with me. I never looked back :) Have fun! 3 cups of flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 cup salted butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 3/4 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp almond extract Cream butter and sugar. Add the egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Mix in flour and baking powder. Once you have a nice dough let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes before rolling and cutting. You don't have too, but it does make rolling it out easier. Bake at 350 F (175 C) for about 13 minutes. I am lazy, so I bought those nice and easy icing pens for the kids. It was less than $4 for four small tubes in different colors (walmart). Win win in my books since it is a lot less messy than trying to make colorful icing with the kids. Here are some of the cookies my kiddos made this week: ...just you know... ignore the football team cookies. This household has not good taste!😡  ...

The Crockpot is my best friend... 1 lb sausage meat 2 lb ground beef 1 cup red wine (or vegetable stock if you don't want wine) 1/2 cup water 2 large cans of tomatoes (or 1 large can of tomatoes and 1 jar of a tomato sauce you like) 3 tsp thyme, dried 3 tsp basil, dried 2 tbs ketchup 1 chopped onion 1 cup chopped vegetables (I will explain bellow) Brown the meats. If you don't you will have a 'nice' layer of fat swimming on top of your sauce. Add the other ingredients and cook low for 6 hours. Or more... the longer you cook the richer it will taste. Ok, the veg... I like making my kids wat vegetables at every meal and spaghetti with a side of veg is a hard sell. So I 'hide' as many vegetables as I can in the sauce. This time I used onion, peppers and celery, because that is what I had at home. My favorite things to add to spaghetti sauce though are eggplant and mushrooms. Both are vegetables kids don't usually go for but they are vegetable...

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