Freewrite: Cookie Cutter Cookies
Cookie Cutter Cookies
For the health of yourself and family it is a good idea to prepare your meals at home as much as possible.
Why is that?
With homemade meals you can control what ingredients are in the food. Commercial foods have a lot of salt, sugar and fat. Starting from stratch you know exactly what’s in everything. You can buy good ingredients and it will still be cheaper than eating out.
You may think time is a factor but driving back and forth to a restaurant and waiting for the meal can take more time than if you prepared it yourself.
Cookies are easy to make. Of the different foods I have made to take to someone’s home, the gingermen cookies with the jelly in the belly have always been the favorite.
My nephew loves them and one time I visited and he comes running up to me looking for the cookies. He had such a disappointed look on his face I made a batch that evening while at my sister’s home. She did not have the gingermen cookie cutter so I simply used a water glass and made round cookies.
You can’t make gingermen cookies without the proper cookie cutter. I found one I liked at a local store and have used it ever since to shape the cookie dough.
My Five Minute #freewrite for cookie cutter
The photo is of a batch I made of the gingermen cookies.
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@redheadpei I agree 100%, we always eat at home, In the 37 years of being married, we have eaten out maybe 3 times. I joke when someone asks about eating out, I say my husbands' idea of eating out is cooking outside on the grill.
That is wonderful @myjob and your husband sounds like a smart man. 😊
Uncle Bruni loves cookies. 👍👍
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They are tasty with a cuppa tea or milk, Uncle Bruni. 🍪
They look great but cookies are hard to make if you have my oven (no thermostats).
It is not the sugar or salt I am worried about if it comes to commercial food and fast food but all the extra chemicals they add to it.
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It’s hard to bake cookies without know the oven temperature.
Yes, you are right about the extra chemical. The additives they put in food to preserve it longer is not good for us.
haha! howdy redheadpei! I couldn't agree with you more about the cookies and about preparing meals at home. Unless you're talking about pizza of course, that's always the exception! lol.
Mornin’ Cowboy Jon. I bet you are a good cook and have meals ready when the Missus comes home from work.
howdy redheadpei! you are so wrong. lol...actually she gets home from work at 6:30 am while I'm still asleep or else I could throw something together!
Are you meaning you don’t cook at all?
Howdy again redheadpei! Well, I throw things together like sandwiches and hamburgers, chicken, things that are easy and don't take a recipe. I keep it real simple. I've always worked such long hours my whole life since I was a kid that I never learned to really cook.
That’s good Cowboy. Hubs likes to make breakfast- Scrambled eggs with cheese, chopped jalapeño and sweet peppers mixed in the eggs. Bacon sometimes with it.
yeah I'm good with things like breakfast too, especially eating it!