COFFEE BREAK; COOKIES

They're is more than one way for coffee breaks...Take 'em to work, give to your coffee drinking friends, only one, more for you. (Lift your depressions with coffee not sodas which is 4 times as bad for all of us.)

Coffee Walnut Cookies

 

Ingredients;

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup walnut halves
• 3/4 cup of sugar * or less, 1/2 honey makes them moist
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp fresh ground coffee beans (medium roast)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 sticks salted butter

or add pecans instead of walnuts

Procedures

1. 1st
   Combine the flour, walnuts, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the walnuts are finely ground. Add the ground coffee and pulse to mix. Add the butter (cut in several pieces if firm) and pulse until the mixture looks damp and crumbly. Drizzle in (the brandy flavoring is optional) and/or vanilla extract and pulse until the dough begins to clump up around the blade. Remove the dough, press it into a ball and knead it by hand a few times to complete the mixing.
2. 2nd
   Form the dough into a 12-inch log about 2 inches in diameter. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or preferably, overnight, or up to 3 days. The dough can also be frozen for up to 3 months. Brings out the flavors.
3. 3rd
   Position the racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Use a sharp knife to cut the cold dough log into one-fourth-inch-thick slices. (If the dough crumbles when you cut into it, let it soften for several minutes.) Place the cookies at least 1 inch apart on silicone-lined baking sheets. Press a coffee bean into the center of each cookie.
4. 4th
   Bake the cookies 150 f. until light golden brown at the edges, 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through the baking. Let the cookies firm up on the pans for about 1 minute, then transfer them to a rack with an off-set spatula.
5. Cool completely. These cookies are delicious fresh but are even better the next day. They can be stored in an airtight container for at least a month.
6. When cutting some of the sugar: add sprinkled powdered sugar then the bean as a topping for company?
7. Oatmeal-cookie-no-flour-recipe My best Cookie recipe
    

BREAD CHEESE CASSEROLE

Bread Cheese Casserole by pt Sherm
http://www.pinterest.com/ptsherm/casseroles-veggies/

Cook Time:1 hr 10 min Level:Easy Serves:6 to 8 servings.

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter (or, part olive oil)
1 small chopped yellow onion
1 or 2 cups frozen shredded hash browns (alternative is mash left-over mashed potatoes i.e.)
2 1/4 cups whole milk OR,  1/4 cream
8 large eggs (or, use flax seed meal for all or in place of some of the eggs)
1 teaspoon salt, and fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

8 cups cubed French or Italian bread, crusts removed (or firm hard Cartesian)

2 cups (1/2 pound) grated Cheddar or Colby cheese etc., or in part; sharp Cheddar

2 cups (1/2 pound) freshly grated Parmesan

Directions; Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Spray a deep 13 by 9-inch casserole dish with vegetable oil cooking spray.

Melt the ORGANIC butter in a large frying pan. Add the onion and saute over medium-low heat until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the hash browns and break apart. Saute until soft, about 5 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the milk, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and mustard, briskly to blend.

To assemble: Spread the onions and hash browns evenly at the bottom of the greased dish. Place the bread cubes evenly on top of hash browns. Pour the milk and egg mixture over these layers. Add Parmesan as the next layer, while then adding the Cheddar.

*Cook's Note: Save a few tablespoons of Cheddar for the last 10 minutes of baking, where you can add a fresh topping of melted Cheddar.

 

Reasonings are: This is just a good old plain basic bread and cheese recipe. Especially served when you don't want mac and cheese or kids sick of it and want a variation.

USE WHAT YOU HAVE ON HAND; IN SEASON, OUT OF YOUR GARDEN; sometimes, mixed frozen vegetable's or, fresh cooked garden veggies or, you could season with a small bit of meat to taste and balanced with less cheese.

This photo is incorrect; this is the same idea but, more mashed potatoes.

HOW TO RID YOU BEDDING, MITES OR PARASITES

) How to get rid of mites of all kinds naturally (Vicks, Cayenne, garlic, cloves, Lindane-A sulfur compound, boric acid, corn starch or, baby powder for ants and the natural ways go on.)  I've pinned the ones I like on my Pinterest. Check them out too.
http://pinterest.com/ptsherm/bugs-insects/
Tips: Carol Wright catalogue has a new mattress cover bed bugs for baby's that hatch out after you've sprayed i.e.
Wash all bedding out in hot water, don't forget pillows and clothes in your closet if really bad bites all the time
Short term/emergency's: Use a Benidryl sp or/and first aid spray with an antibiotic for bleeding bites, and take one 25mg tablet before bed. They love high blood sugars and the bite have toxic poisons in them.
Take Golden seal root for itching but not the same time as a drug.
And/ or depending on the mosquitoes, bugs i.e. Keep lights and use screen doors i.e.
... Mix Tea Tree oil and Clove oil in a spray bottle. Base use Listerine and spray on areas that you don't want more bites. And, for children or pain use aspirin cream or make your own with baby aspirin cream, WF has one, and ICE (bought from the dollar store)http://diply.com/lance2015/penny-fly-trick-bugs/133672