KENTUCKY COFFEE & KENTUCKY LACE COOKIE RECIPE

Good Evening Dear Ones,

If Home is where the heart is...
The Heart of our Home is in our kitchen.
Even here in our temporary home,
in this old trailer with a leaky roof and
drafty floors. Even here, in the tiniest kitchen, I enjoy
experimenting with recipes, tweeking, tasting, changing, making them my own.

I cook with Love because I Love to cook.

Not especially here, in this kitchen, where I have to boil all the drinking & cooking water,
the clunky kitchen drawers that stick, I have no closets or pantrys, the single kitchen cabinet
that hangs on the wall, just barely hanging on, doesn't hold much.
I guess the studs gave out years ago.

I have to use a big butcher's block cutting board, placed over the sink
to even have a place to work, a place to make our meals.
But I have to say, I have made many of the best tasting recipes
and planned the best tasting meals here, ever...

As long as I can remember, I have always dreamed of having
a big Open living room, dining room, kitchen with a
fireplace a breakfast nook area and lots of counterspace.
I also am looking forward to having a large walk in pantry to store
all of my canned goods. Store bought and home made.
I am collecting home canning recipes and will post the successful
ones here, as I try them.

We are planning on having a one floor home, similar to the profile above,
much larger of course - with an open loft, above the rear of the house.
The loft will be our bedroom until we grow too old to climb the stairs.
From the upstairs bedroom, I want to be able to look
down into the living space. I believe they call it a Grand Room nowadays.

Somewhere in the kitchen prep area there will be an island with tons of
storage for all of my spices, utensils and specialty baking ingredients.
My Honey is the breadmaker. He makes breads that melt in your mouth.
I will be sharing lots of bread recipes in the coming months.
Enough about us for now.

We both hope you enjoy our cooking diary.
For today, I have 2 special recipes.

Take a few minutes, grab your favorite mug,
sit at your kitchen table and count your blessings.



KENTUCKY COFFEE

1 1/2 oz Non-Alcoholic Coffee Liqueur
5 oz Hot Coffee
Combine in a mug,
top with a
Dollop or 2 of Whipped Cream





KENTUCKY LACE COOKIES RECIPE

Preheat oven to 350.
Layer a cookie sheet with 4 layers of foil
spray a very small amount of non-stick cooking spray on it.

2 1/4 cups oatmeal
2 1/4 cups packed light brown sugar
3 Tablespoons flour
1 Tsp Salt.
1 cup melted butter
1 slightly beaten egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 pkg of white choc chips
1 pkg of semisweet choc chips

Mix in a bowl :
oatmeal, brown sugar, flour & salt.
Blend well
Stir in 1 melted butter, slightly beaten egg
and vanilla blending well.


Arrange by 1/2 teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet prepared as above.
Bake 6 minutes or until lightly browned.
*Careful Now, these cookies spread a Lot & will Burn quick.

Cool slightly.
Remove from cookie sheet and place on wire rack to cool.

*Preparing the 'lace'*

Melt chocolate chips in microwave
~white and semi-sweet melted separately.
Gently spread melted chocolate on a cookie
Gently sandwich with another cookie.
Make your 'lace' look on the top,
drizzle a pattern of your choice with
the melted white chocolate.

or

You can also drizzle individual cookies with the melted chocolate
and sprinkle with chopped walnuts or pecans.
tah dah !
Your done.
Pretty Lace Cookies.
:)

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