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Chunky Cranberry Double Chip Cookies

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Cranberrry is a favorite holiday flavor.Many of the cookies I post on the blog are made for events at school, gift giving or to take to a friend “just because”. My family and I certainly can’t eat all these goodies ourselves. I made these chunky cranberry double chip cookies for our school’s annual cookie extravaganza. It’s held each year in December and faculty and staff get to pick out cookies for a take home box as a way for parents to say thank for all you do. I’d say 90% of the cookies donated are homemade but some do purchase and that’s OK. It’s all about saying thanks to those who teach and care for our kids.

I’ve made cookies for this event before and a favorite of ours (and the teachers) is the Andes creme de menthe chunk cookies. I always like to make a new cookie each year. From what I heard these cookies were well received.

It seems I may have a bit of a theme going on though. This isn’t the first cranberry cookie on the blog. If you like oatmeal cookies you’ll enjoy oatmeal, cranberry and white chocolate chip cookies.

If you make these cookies and enjoy them, you may want to change them up the next time. A bit of orange zest would be nice because orange goes well with both cranberry and chocolate. You could also substitute dried cherries for the cranberries. Treat them the same way with the water.

I used a fairly big scoop and got exactly 3 dozen cookies. You can see they are a pretty good size. If you use a smaller scoop you’ll get more, maybe closer to 4 or 4 1/2 dozen.

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Chunky Cranberry Double Chip Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Yield: 3 dozen large cookies; 4 dozen smaller cookies

Chunky Cranberry Double Chip Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup dried cranberries
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup white chocolate morsels

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a microwave-safe bowl combine dried cranberries and 1 tablespoon water. Microwave on high for 30 seconds, stirring once. Let stand 10 minutes.
  3. In a mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating until well combined.
  4. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture stirring until combined Stir in semi-sweet chips, white morsels and dried cranberries.
  5. Drop dough by tablespoonful onto parchment lined baking sheets.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes or until edges brown lightly. Transfer to wire racks and cool completely before storing tightly in a container.
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#FWCON Get Ready to Go!

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Food Wine Conference, affectionately called FWCon, is rapidly approaching! Like last year I have once again been chosen to be a brand ambassador. I’m anxiously awaiting my brand assignment so follow my social media channels to find to find out who I’ll be working with this year and to have a front row seat to the conference.  I’ll be posting photos and all the happenings. Links to my social media are below. Last year I was assigned Certified Angus Beef.

There’s a big line up of informative sessions plus one new, big feature for restauranteurs, chefs, retailers, food and beverage brands and PR marketing managers. It’s called FSSM, short for Food Service Social Media bootcamp with sessions designed for those professionals. Those sessions will prove to be exciting for that industry.

Returning sponsors include CK Mondavi Wines, Certified Angus Beef, Florida Strawberry Growers Association, Wish Farms, Famous Idaho Potatoes, Florida Dairy Farmers, and among new sponsors is Mann’s Fresh Vegetables.

Speakers include chef, restauranteur, and cookbook author Ina Pinkney, Food Fanatics founder Denise Vivaldo, social media expert Amanda Rettke, and CMO Peter Horst, one of the three keynote featured speakers.

Also, like last year, the FWCon is being held at the posh Rosen Shingle Creek, also a sponsor of the weekend. As a relative local, living close to the Orlando area, I can tell you it’s one of the top properties in the Orlando area conveniently located to the major theme parks and I-Drive. Golfers will love the beautiful, sprawling golf course. After hitting the links, relax by one of the glorious pools.

By this time next month, Food Wine Conference will be over so register soon! The link to register and get the weekend session lineup and information is here. Use the promo code EllenF2017 to receive $50 off your conference ticket. You can also book your hotel room at the Rosen Shingle Creek on the FWCon website.

Stay tuned and follow Family Around The Table on social media so you don’t miss one exciting moment of the conference: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest

Disclosure: As a Brand Ambassador I received a discounted ticket to the conference.

Parmesan Roasted Asparagus

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Asparagus is one of our favorite vegetables. Usually my husband grills it or I roast it in the oven. This parmesan roasted asparagus recipe came across my Facebook feed recently from Taste of Home. It just so happened I had all of the ingredients to make it to go with the Caprese chicken with bacon dish, also a Taste of Home recipe.

It would also be a perfect vegetable side for any Easter meal whether you’re serving ham, roast beef, lamb or turkey. This recipe is doing double duty today for Taste of Home Tuesday and the Easter week recipes.

It’s only 5 ingredients and, with the exception of the asparagus, you probably have them in your pantry. It must be true that if you put cheese on vegetables, kids will eat them. My son asked if we could have asparagus like this every time. For the record, he like cheese sauce on broccoli too.

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Parmesan Roasted Asparagus

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400°. Place asparagus in an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Drizzle with oil; toss to coat. Sprinkle with cheese, lemon-pepper and salt.
  2. Bake 20-25 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally.

Notes

Adjust cooking time depending on how thick your asparagus is. Longer for thicker, shorter for thinner.

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This recipe is from Taste of Home.

For Taste of Home Tuesday my fellow blogger, Jolene, from Jolene’s Recipe Journal shares a dish that would also be perfect for an Easter dinner.

Spring Pea and Radish Salad by Jolene’s Recipe Journal

This week, thirteen bloggers are sharing 46 recipes and tips to help you serve up deliciousness this Easter. Follow #EasterRecipes on social media to see what we’re serving up!

Tuesday

Happy 2015! New Year, New Recipes!

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With a new year come new goals and ideas. While I really desire to devote more time to this blog, I’ve been inspired by a Facebook friend to try a 52 week challenge. That means a new recipe each week for an entire year! Finding new recipes to try won’t be difficult. I have a cookbook collection that would rival a bookstore plus many more recipes saved on Pinterest and clipped from magazines. Of course I’ll share the recipes on my blog along with more of my tried and true standbys. My goal is to bring more dishes to my repertoire, not really to expand horizons (or budgets) to new cuisines. My family likes what we like – chicken, beef, pasta. There will be recipes for these as well as sides and desserts and probably breads too. I hope you’ll join me on this culinary journey. Happy 2015!

Easy Strawberry Sauce

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Strawberry Sauce
Strawberry Sauce

So, I got a Belgian waffle maker for Christmas this year from my boys. I’ve been under the weather so now that I’m feeling better it was time to try it out! I love, love, love Belgian waffles and I wanted something more than butter and syrup to top them with so I made this super easy strawberry sauce based on the blueberry sauce also shared in this blog. If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know we pick strawberries every year in nearby Plant City so I used what I had frozen. This is so easy to make it’s ridiculous!

Not only was this delicious on our Belgian waffles, it would be yummy over some vanilla ice cream too! Before I get to the recipe, a word about sugar: I used the least amount of sugar to begin, tasted the mixutre after mashing the berries and added a bit more. Remember  you can always add more but you can’t take away!

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Easy Strawberry Sauce

Ingredients

  • 2 cups frozen strawberries
  • 2-4 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 3 tablespoons water

Instructions

  1. Combine strawberries and sugar in medium saucepan over medium low heat. Stir occasionally and when sugar melts, remove from heat. Mash strawberries with fork, spoon, potato masher or pastry cutter, leaving some chunks for texture. Return to heat and bring mixture to a boil. In measuring cup combine the cornstarch and water until cornstarch is dissolved. When mixture boils, add cornstarch and stir to combine. Boil, stirring frequently, for an additional 2 - 4 minutes or until mixture thickens. Serve with pancakes, waffles or over ice cream.
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