#flowertherapy might be right up there with #water #flowertherapy might be right up there with #watertherapy.  Love passing the time in secret wildflower patches. As you do. 🌸
I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon was on the way home tonight, and my friend pulled over right away so I could grab a photo. That’s when someone really knows you! It was just too beautiful to resist. 🌙
Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ C Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ 
Context: 1/ picture perfect weekend, 2/ threw together a quick meal w udon noodles, steak and broccoli, so good, 3/ the sun reflections on this painting struck me today, looked like a cross 4/ it takes all afternoon but nothing like Sunday Gravy, 5/ six months old, 6/ when he wants some serious zzzz’s, he covers his eye with his ears, the cutest, 7/ breakfast pastries at @coniglios
I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New Jersey banned the plastic ones last year. But when I spied this beauty for a buck, how could I resist? It just is so darn happy, which makes me happy. The little things aren’t so little. 💛
Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged photo, but Lola just has ZERO boundaries and Clifford is exceptionally patient. 😂
I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s so good for you), so when I saw that a local patisserie has a smoked salmon croissant available (weekends only), I added it to my list of things to seek out. I popped into @chocolatinenj early on Mother’s Day and was rewarded with this deliciousness. Layers of soft flaky croissant dough, tender smoked salmon, light whipped cream, thinly sliced red and green onion slivers and dotted with capers… it was every bit as amazing as you’d imagine it would be. If you’re local, don’t sleep on this one. 😋
Weekend photos in review, the belated edition. 1/ Weekend photos in review, the belated edition.

1/ hit up a few yard sales and snagged this beautiful pasta dish from Italy with my favorite color for a buck, 2/ and one of these printer trays came home with me too, 3/ pre Mother’s Day celebrations with 30 local moms, 4/ finished the weekend supervising furniture assembly
Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd bir Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd birthday. Unfortunately she’s not here to celebrate because she died suddenly at age 49. I think of her often … every Mother’s Day because we spent most of them together since her husband worked weekends … when I discover a new food adventure (we once did a day long donut crawl) … when I’m sharing a special time with my kids knowing that her then-11 year old is growing up without her. Before she passed, I always appreciated every day, but since then, even more so. You never know what the next day can bring, so relish in the sunshine, surprise rainstorms, making wishes over railroad tracks and all the wonderful randomness life can throw your way. Don’t waste a single second, say yes, live on the outskirts of your comfort zone, laugh often, tell people you love them, give eight second hugs, and squeeze every ounce of joy you can out of life. Do it for the people who can’t. ✨
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Recipe: Eli Manning’s Favorite Childhood Cookie

February 7, 2012 · Narrative

Eli Manning's Lace Cookies
This year’s Super Bowl was the first time that Nick took a serious interest in the game.  Asking tons of questions.  Rooting the Giants on.  Hanging on with the rest of us for that last touchdown in the final seconds of the game.  Madeline, seriously partied out from the weekend, made it to just before the halftime show before she fell asleep.  She tried to hang on as long as she could, but the poor thing was spent.

The next morning, when we were getting ready to leave the house, she asked, “Mommy, I forget.  Did the Giants win or the Papers?”  She is too cute for words.

So when I was catching up on my celebrity gossip the other day, and spied this recipe for Eli Manning’s favorite childhood cookie on People magazine’s web site, it was pretty much a given that we should make it.  How better to support our local team?

When I saw the cookies in the oven as the timer dinged, I might have been slightly cursing Eli and his favorite childhood cookie.  The batter spreads a ridiculous amount.  The cookies wouldn’t come up from the foil.  As Madeline would say, “Darn it.”

But with the remaining batter, I added a bit more flour, used cooking spray on the foil before dropping the batter onto it, and kept the cookies smaller.  Much smaller.  The subsequent trays were a better success.  They still spread tons, but I was able to get some 30 cookies out of it, and all (especially the ingredients I just used) was not lost.

The recipe originally comes from Loukoumi’s Celebrity Cookbook, and the proceeds of the cookbook benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Chefs for Humanity.

The kids had a few of the cookies after their dinner last night and proclaimed them delicious, so all was right with the world.  And Eli Manning’s favorite childhood cookie.

February 7, 2012 – Bonus Photos
Practicing Letters
I don’t know how she got so grown-up all the sudden, looking every bit the just-days-away-from-being-four that she is. After dinner, we broke out paper and pencils and worked on practicing her letters and spelling. Madeline is going to be a tough cookie once she officially starts school because she is a major perfectionist. Her brother is very much about the “good enough,” whereas she will erase and rewrite a letter three or six times just to get it perfect.

This is what she was working so hard on. Can you see it?
Proud

Done
So proud. So very proud. I gently convinced her school to teach her how to spell Madeline, as opposed to going the Maddie route, which is what they had started doing. You know, because Maddie isn’t her name. It’s a nickname. I have no problem with people calling her Maddie, nor does she, but firmly believe that when it comes to learning how to spell and write your name, it should be the proper given name. Basics, you know. Now she calls Maddie her “other name.”

Eli Manning’s Lace Cookies

Ingredients
2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 tbsp. flour (I used a bit more)
2 cups white sugar
½ tsp. salt
2 sticks melted butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions:

1. Put the oats, flour, sugar & salt in to large bowl & mix well.
2. Pour very hot melted butter over mixture & stir until the sugar has melted.
3. Add eggs & vanilla. Stir well.
4. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
5. Cover cookie sheets with ungreased aluminum foil.  (I sprayed the foil with non-stick cooking spray)
6. Drop ½ level teaspoons of the mixture on foil – 2 inches apart.
7. Cook about 10-12 minutes.
8. Watch carefully. When cookies are completely cooled, foil will peel off.
9. Store in airtight containers.
10. Makes about 6 dozen.

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Posted In: Narrative · Tagged: Eli Manning, Giants, handwriting, lace cookies, People magazine, Super Bowl

Comments

  1. Joanne says

    February 8, 2012 at 7:24 am

    Whoa! That girl is a writing rockstar! (slash genius). That is MAJOR. i think she deserved an extra cookie for that.

    Reply
  2. paula says

    February 8, 2012 at 9:15 am

    She does look more mature all of the sudden. Funny how that goes, even with your own kids that you see every day. It comes out of nowhere.

    I make florentines and I prefer to use nonstick foil for them. I tried parchment but the batter seemed to spread more and they were more lacey that I like (because my recipe has milk chocolate sandwiched between the cookies and the big holes made the chocolate seep out too much). They do come right off the parchment though. They really stuck to regular foil. I had to cut around each cookie after they were baked and then remove the foil since if I tried to remove the cookies from the big sheet of foil, they cracked.

    Reply
  3. Sarah says

    February 9, 2012 at 2:37 am

    That’s awesome. Go Maddie! Also, I swear by nonstick aluminum foil. It’s great for cookies like these.

    Reply

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#flowertherapy might be right up there with #water #flowertherapy might be right up there with #watertherapy.  Love passing the time in secret wildflower patches. As you do. 🌸
I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon I remarked how pretty that tiny sliver of the moon was on the way home tonight, and my friend pulled over right away so I could grab a photo. That’s when someone really knows you! It was just too beautiful to resist. 🌙
Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ C Weekend photos in review, old school style. ✨ 
Context: 1/ picture perfect weekend, 2/ threw together a quick meal w udon noodles, steak and broccoli, so good, 3/ the sun reflections on this painting struck me today, looked like a cross 4/ it takes all afternoon but nothing like Sunday Gravy, 5/ six months old, 6/ when he wants some serious zzzz’s, he covers his eye with his ears, the cutest, 7/ breakfast pastries at @coniglios
I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New I have plenty of reusable shopping bags since New Jersey banned the plastic ones last year. But when I spied this beauty for a buck, how could I resist? It just is so darn happy, which makes me happy. The little things aren’t so little. 💛
Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged Cheers to the weekend! This may look like a staged photo, but Lola just has ZERO boundaries and Clifford is exceptionally patient. 😂
I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s I’ve been on a smoked salmon kick lately (it’s so good for you), so when I saw that a local patisserie has a smoked salmon croissant available (weekends only), I added it to my list of things to seek out. I popped into @chocolatinenj early on Mother’s Day and was rewarded with this deliciousness. Layers of soft flaky croissant dough, tender smoked salmon, light whipped cream, thinly sliced red and green onion slivers and dotted with capers… it was every bit as amazing as you’d imagine it would be. If you’re local, don’t sleep on this one. 😋
Weekend photos in review, the belated edition. 1/ Weekend photos in review, the belated edition.

1/ hit up a few yard sales and snagged this beautiful pasta dish from Italy with my favorite color for a buck, 2/ and one of these printer trays came home with me too, 3/ pre Mother’s Day celebrations with 30 local moms, 4/ finished the weekend supervising furniture assembly
Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd bir Today would have been my friend Cathy’s 53rd birthday. Unfortunately she’s not here to celebrate because she died suddenly at age 49. I think of her often … every Mother’s Day because we spent most of them together since her husband worked weekends … when I discover a new food adventure (we once did a day long donut crawl) … when I’m sharing a special time with my kids knowing that her then-11 year old is growing up without her. Before she passed, I always appreciated every day, but since then, even more so. You never know what the next day can bring, so relish in the sunshine, surprise rainstorms, making wishes over railroad tracks and all the wonderful randomness life can throw your way. Don’t waste a single second, say yes, live on the outskirts of your comfort zone, laugh often, tell people you love them, give eight second hugs, and squeeze every ounce of joy you can out of life. Do it for the people who can’t. ✨

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