Kitchen Sink Cookies and The Start with Substance Program

As a participating blogger in the Start With Substance Program I’m sharing my favorite recipe using Quaker Oats. and it isn’t oatmeal. ;-)

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This recipe makes about 5 dozen cookies and when I mention that I’m making them, there’s usually a line of people waiting for them.

Kitchen Sink Cookies

  • 2 C Brown Sugar
  • 2 C White Sugar
  • 1 3/4 C quick cook oats
  • 2 C unsweetened applesauce
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 C all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 C cornflakes cereal
  • 1 1/2 C chopped walnuts
  • 1 1/4 C flaked coconut
  • 4 dashes cinnamon
  • you can add 1 to 2  C raisins or craisins or dried cherries or chocolate chips
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F
  2. Cream together Brown Sugar, White Sugar, Vanilla, Applesauce and Eggs
  3. Add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and oatmeal. Mix well
  4. In a large bowl mix cornflakes, nuts and coconut (this is where you would add the *extras*)
  5. Slowly add the batter to this bowl, mixing well until the entire batter is completely mixed.
  6. Drop by Tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes or until they are a lovely golden brown.

These cookies are amazing and will disappear quickly. They are crunchy and chewy with just a hint of sweetness. My family can’t get enough of them.

How Cute are my two little Chefs in Training with our special cookie ingredient and our special guest chef!

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Want a darlin’ picture like this of your own?

Want to help me to win $5,000 from Quaker to donate the the Hunger charity of my choice?

You do?!  Of course you do!

Here’s what you need to do:

Go to Quaker’s Facebook Page , add yourself as a fan,  print the Quaker man**, take a picture of you or your family with him and then upload it to the Quaker Facebook page’s album and link back here in your comments. If in the next 24 hours from 9AM CST 1/13/09 to 9 AM CST 1/14/09 I have the most comments and pictures linking back to the Quaker page out of all 25 bloggers doing this. That’s exactly what will happen.

Quaker is also donating a case of oatmeal to my local food bank!! Yea!!!

and

They are providing two coupons, each good for $1.00 off any 2 Quaker products for me to give to two of my readers!

I will choose my two favorite Quaker Oats man pictures, or my two favorite Quaker Oatmeal recipes/memories from two of my readers and they’ll win the coupons.

The Fine Print aka The Nitty Gritty

The Official Rules
** The Quaker Man logo must remain  intact and may not be modified in any manner. Readers must use the exact download of the image, and all entries need to be wholesome in nature. No nudity, defamation, obscene language or inappropriate, rude behavior in the photograph submitted will be accepted. Compliance with these rules is subject to the sole discretion of The Quaker Oats Company;

This program is taking place over 25 business days and the blogger who gets the most Reader submissions by 9 a.m. CST the following morning, (within 24 hours) will win the opportunity to select a hunger charity of their choice to receive a $5000.00 donation made to the charity by The Quaker Oats Company.

Four Cheese Garlic Bread: Mouthwatering Monday

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Crispy, Garlicky, Cheesy and Delicious. Could you ask for anything else in a bread?
I can’t. This was another delight on the table New Year’s eve and it was popular with the 2 year old and the 32 year old.
This bread is simple to make, but the taste is anything but.

Four Cheese Garlic Bread

  • 1 loaf French Bread
  • 1/4 C shredded Cheddar Cheese
  • 1/4 C grated Parmesan Cheese
  • 1/4 C shredded Monterey Jack Cheese
  • 1/4 C shredded Mozzarella Cheese
  • 1 stick butter (8 Tbsp), melted
  • 6 garlic cloves, pressed, or finely minced
  1. Pre-heat oven to 450 F
  2. Add the cheeses together and set aside.
  3. Melt butter over low heat, add garlic to the butter and saute over low heat. Do not burn the garlic.
  4. Brush the butter/garlic mixture over the bread until it has a nice coating.
  5. Top with the cheese mixture.
  6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden brown. Broil for 1 or 2 minutes to give them crispier tops.

Remove, cool, slice and enjoy!

*if you want to get fancy, you can add chopped parsley to the cheese mix for a splash of color.

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Weekly Winners: The ‘I forgot my camera’ edition

Daddy’s Little Helper
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My love bugs
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Before: Garage Quality
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After: Princess Quality
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Weekly Winners is hosted by the fabulous Lotus. Go over there and see people who didn’t forget to drag their camera around every day.
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Tomorrow is Monday which means it’s Mouthwatering Monday time!! Post your recipes, grab a button and pop over to sign Mr. Linky and discover new recipes and fun people!

The code for the button can be found by clicking on the button above. If it doesn’t work for you, e-mail me and let me know. I’m not the most technically savvy and can’t seem to figure out how to make it work in WP on a regular basis, the text box that is. If you know. I’m all ears!

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