Rhubarb Cookies

Rhubarb Cookies
Originally uploaded by glass_identities

I am loving my grandma right now so much... growing up she made the best rhubarb cookies.. not sure how.. but I had forgotten about them until the other day when my dad called me up looking for the recipe... ( thanks dad )....after sharing it with him I had to make some myself. I did not have any rhubarb but I put an ad on freecycle.com for my local area and within an hour I had 6 people write me who all lived within a mile or two.. so I headed over to one of the houses and she wonderfully let me take a whole bunch of it.. ( going to make a pie with what is left ) I just finished making them and not only are they wondeful *pats self on back* but they bring back so many wonderful memories of being young and carefree and playing at grandmas. Grandmas are truly a childs best friend.

Just a side note on this recipe make them small... they grew a lot while baking and ended up being the size of saucers which only made a dozen cookies.. I will be making more this weekend.

Rhubarb Filled Cookies Recipes

Ingredients For: Rhubarb Filled Cookies Recipes
1/2-cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2-teaspoon salt
1-tablespoon milk
1-teaspoon vanilla

Filling For: Rhubarb Filled Cookies Recipes
3 cups rhubarb, chopped
1/4-cup water
1 cup granulated sugar

Instructions For: Rhubarb Filled Cookies Recipes
Mix filling ingredients and cook until soft. Set aside and chill.

To prepare Dough: Cream butter, add sugar and cream together well. Beat eggs and add to this mixture.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mix alternating with milk and vanilla.
Chill dough.
On floured board, roll out dough 1/2" thick. Using a 2" cutter, cut out cookies .
Place cookies on a greased or sprayed cookie sheet.
Cover dough with a teaspoon of filling. Top with another cookie and press edges together with tines of a floured fork.
Bake rhubarb filled cookies recipes in 400°F oven for 10 minutes.

Salsa Garden

salsa garden
Originally uploaded by glass_identities

This last weekend was so great... no time schedules... well Dave had some work he brought home that needed to be done but no house stress.. no projects we had to work 24/7 to get done. It was really nice. We did some garage sales.. got a green marble rolling pin/cutting board set for a $1.. and two barstools for $5... a great moose candle holder...it was great. Went to Bostons pizza for lunch and then on Sunday.. we slept in really late.. had some breakfast.. and then went back to bed.. it was amazing. Today I played in my little salsa garden this morning.. gave the tomatoes new stakes.. they are growing really fast right now... all are covered with little yellow flowers. The pepper plants are not growing so well I dont think... All the flowers in the planters are doing great too.. overfilling the baskets and full of very bright blooms. I love this time of year! Today I start back to work. Will only be doing short shifts.. see how it goes.. should be great..and then by the time I have the next MRI, in july, I hope to be working full time again :)

Great Weekend

This last weekend was so great... no time schedules... well Dave had some work he brought home that needed to be done but no house stress.. no projects we had to work 24/7 to get done. It was really nice. We did some garage saling.. got a green marble rolling pin/cutting board set for a $1.. and two barstools for $5 it was great. Went to Bostons pizza for lunch and then on sunday.. we slept in really late.. had some breakfast.. and then went back to bed.. it was amazing. Today I played in my little garden this morning.. gave the tomatoes new stakes.. they are growing really fast right now... all are covered with little yellow flowers. All the flowers in the planters are doing great too.. overfilling the baskets and full of very bright blooms. I love this time of year! Today I start back to work. Will only be doing short shifts.. see how it goes.. should be great..and then by the time I have the next MRI, in july, I hope to be working full time again :)

Sad little lonely mailbox no more

Friday we spent all day out and about... once again.. we headed out for a 9:30 am appointment in Stanwood ( ten minutes from home ) to get a new windshield in the truck.. and we got home about 6:30pm. We ended up heading into town to go to Home Depot to get a new mailbox... and well first we had to get some lunch since it was 11 when the windshield was done.. and it is looking very spiffy I might say.... also made an appointment to get the new shower doors installed in a couple of weeks....back to lunch.. we didn't want to just spin through some fast food.. so decided to go to Red Robin... I always get the same thing.. Bonzi Burger.. I love it so much...I have to say even though they totally forgot to put the pinapple on there.. it was the very best burger I have ever had there... service was a bit slow but the burger was worth it. Then since we were driving past we stopped in at Costco.. just to walk around and see what they have... didn't buy anything... then to Home Depot.. plan was.. buy a cedar post to make a new mail box stand.. and a new mail box.. ok that was quickly shot to heck when we walked past the clearance section and they had a really nice white one marked down from $130 to $25... then off to look at mail boxes.. well if we get this post then we need this type of mail box and yet we like the mail box that would go on the wood post.. but... then again.. this other mail box closes better.. but this one has a better flag ( which we never use ) point being.. too many mail boxes... finally we decided on a white one that goes great with the post. The post has this ball thing on the top... dont like it.. so we picked up a solar post light to go on top of it... Also picked up a great sign for the house numbers, which we had to go to Lowes for since we didn't like the house number selection at the first store. While we were at Lowes we also found a pack of 12 solar yard lights on a great sale so we grabbed them too. We have a set on the deck now but they are old and not working so well.. this pack has enough to put some around the deck and some in the new gardens :) We still need a patio set for the deck, can't decide if we should make something or buy something.. and a cool bench or small sitting set for the side of the house. We got the post all set and ready to go.. but the mailbox when we took it out of the box was dented.. had to return it and go to two different stores to get one that was not dented... finally it is all installed and it looks great.

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