Pumkin Cookies, A Little Late for Halloween!

So, I know I haven’t been posting lately. I also haven’t been making much food lately. Mostly just other recipes I’ve found online. I’ve made Alton Brown’s pancakes and random soup recipes, mostly. Well, tonight I finally decided to get off my butt and make pumpkin cookies. So, let’s get to it, shall we?

Makes 24 cookies

You’ll need:

3 eggs

1/4 cp honey

3/4 oil

1 cp brown sugar

3 cp flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbs cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp cayenne pepper

1 1/2 cp pumpkin puree

1. Preheat oven at 375 degrees F. Combine 3 eggs, ¼ cup honey, ¾ cup oil, 1 cp brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, and 1 ½ cup pumpkin puree, and mix.

2. Add 3 cups flour, 2 tsp baking soda, ¼ tsp salt, 1 tbs cinnamon, and 1 tsp cayenne pepper.

    
     3. Mix until it becomes the consistency of cookie dough, which is like a sticky pasta.

      4. Place in 2 spoon scoops onto greased cookie pans. I used three cookie pans for this recipe.

      5. Bake for 8 minutes before removing cookies. Wait to cool and then you can eat them. You’ll    get a really chewy, pumpkin flavored cookie.

I hope you’ll enjoy that one. If you want to make the pumpkin puree from scratch, follow these directions. Take your pumpkin, remove seeds, and cut your pumpkin into pieces. Place those pieces fleshy side up on a baking sheet for 30 minutes. You could probably just as easily microwave them, but you can fit more pieces in an oven. For this recipe, I used the puree of half of a large pumpkin. This was the first time I’ve done this so I wasn’t sure how much I need to make. Either way, when done baking, scoop out the flesh from the skin with a spoon or fork. Place it into a blender and puree for 3-5 minutes. What you get is what you’ll use for your cookies, or really anything else you want to make with pumpkin puree.

I hope that’s been helpful to you. Good day lovelies.

Cinnamon Apple Egg Rice

I haven’t really been cooking lately, sorry. But I’ve got a lovely dish for you today. It’s a sweet rice and egg dish.

You’ll need:
1/2 medium apple
2 cloves of garlic
2 eggs
1 ¼ cp rice
2 ½ cps water
Salt
Pepper
1 tsp cinnamon
Serves: 1

1. Put your rice and water into a pot to boil. Put a few dashes of salt and pepper along with that. It should take about 20 minutes. Cooking the rice is the longest part of this recipe. You could also use instant rice if you really need an instant meal though.
2. Dice your garlic and apple into small pieces.

3. Beat the two eggs in a separate bowl. This helps make them fluffier and tastier.
4. When your rice has been cooked, start cooking your eggs in another pan. Stir in garlic and apple after egg has started cooking.
5. Serve egg mixture on top of rice. Sprinkle cinnamon in center of plate. Garnish plate with the other half of the apple, if so desired (I didn’t this time).

That’s about it for this meal. It’s my lunch! Please enjoy it as much as I have.