Christmas Mint Cookies

If you love peppermint mocha at Starbucks,I guess you'll enjoy these (as not all love mint in their cookies)

You'll need

2 cups flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 egg 1/4 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon peppermint oil Colored Candies

What you'll do

1. Sift the first four ingridients. 2. In a microwave or heavy saucepan, melt butter and chocolate; stir until smooth 3.In a separate bowl, beat sugar and egg. Then beat in the choclate mixture then add the buttermilk and peppermint extract.

4. Combine the dry ingridients. Mix well.

5. Stand for 15 Minutes. 6. Drop the dough by rounded teaspoon or with a cookie scoop 3in a part. 7. Slightly push a few candies on top of each dough ball. 8. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. 9. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Easy right...So will you try?

Carlsberg Web-TV Channel

Recently Carlsberg launches Web-TV channel for football fanatics! This is the much awaited channel for all those who enjoy the sport – football.

The new launched channel is www.partofthegame.tv . It has 5 channels that showing all aspects about the said sport. What good about this new channel is that you can upload and your favorite football video clips and even the funniest football magic channel too! Isn’t great?

So you football fanatic out there you got to see this channel now!

Peanut butter banana cookies :)

I bake these last Saturday. This cookie is one of my personal favorite :)

You'll need:

1 1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup crisco shortening

1/2 c. peanut butter (skippy reduced fat peanut butter )

1/4 c. sugar

1/2 c. brown sugar

2 pcs ripe banana, mashed

then...

Preheat oven to 350°F

In a large bowl, cream peanut butter, banana, and the sugar. Mix well until smooth

Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder & salt. When the dry ingridients are well mix, combine the dry mix with the peanut butter, banana mixture. Blend well

Scoop out batter and place on baking sheet aproximately 2 inches apart. I topped it with brown sugar streusel and bake for 10 to 14 minutes until lightly brown.

remove from the baking sheet and cool on wire racks.

For Streusel

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

5 tbsp (2.5 oz) unsalted butter, chilled

Just mix everything :)

I am home today

I am on leave today...

Before I start my relaxing day, I had tuna sandwhich for breakfast. Yummm! Then I will continue doing my project, few more stiches and it's finish. Then later this afternoon I will do some christmas shopping.Yebah.

So everyone enjoy the rest of the day! :)

Another exciting award

yehey I got an award from Grace. Thank you very much dear.

Premio Dardos Award

Premio Dardos means “prize darts” in Italian. This award is given to bloggers, in recognition of their cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writings.

Naks I have those ba hahaha!!! Now I am tagging creative people such as:

Mai. Because she is so creative in her passion, cooking. Also she has this writing style that is so inviting. That's why I keep coming back at her blog.

Grace. Another crafty blogger I knew. She makes great jewelries and unique style.

Sinta. This girl, the uber crafty I knew online. She knits, she bakes, she paints, she love reading books...whatelse?

J.Ana. The girl with a unique name. She bakes too. You have to see her vampie. It looks so good (and I knew it taste good too) aside from that she loves fabrics too.

Odette. Of course I won’t forget her. She is the first crafty person I knew at the blogosphere. I frequent her lovely notecards. She also has this passion for sewing and she's started knitting. As a proof she just finishes an awesome scarf. :)

Caryn. The person behind creative swap group. So you could just imagine how creative this person is.

Sheng and his husband. Sheng is an awesome writer. I love it when she wrote about her ethnical and cultural experiences. His husband is an awesome photographer. I wish to meet this couple soon.

Javaqueen. You have to see her blog. She is one strong person I knew at the blogosphere. She has so many stories to tell. A great mom, a loving wife and a funny friend, all wrap into one. Oh she knits too. :)

Bem. A crafty mom for her kids. I love it when she do projects to keep her kids busy hahaha. She crochet too. :)

See I got lots of great online friends. I am so glad I found them :)

I am addicted

Last night I got these and now I not only bought 1 but a dozen. I'll give the half dozen to my niece while the other half is mine (okay hubz you can get two from my share).....Therefore I got 4....Uoh sugar overload but who cares, these are my favorites. I could always use my navigator to elimate it. But for now, I would just enjoy everything. Harhar.

And look what they have to spread christmas cheers.

It's Mr. Snowman

He is so cute. Wish I could place him at the christmas tree hahaha:)

So while I am busy eating, let me say...have a great weekend to all and I'll see you later!

6 Random Things that make me happy Tag

Tag by the crafty Sinta, actually there are many things that made me happy but the tag asked for six so here goes. My husband. He is so cool, so loving and so patient. I am so lucky to have him. I guess if I married somebody else, I might be separated by now, hahaha!!!

My family. I got a perfect family,though my brother sometime thinks of out of this world idea, my sister is sometime hassling, mom is such a nagger and my father is therefore strict, I must say, they make me happy. If they aren't like that I think my life would be so dull. ;)

Work. however I have a love hate relationship with work, I discovered how to love it.

Friends. Hmmm....my friends are all crazy so what would you expect. hahahaha

A good breakfast . As I have always telling, I love sandwhich and coffee. These two are my favorite breakfast.

Sufficient sleep. Lately I've assimilate that having enough sleep is the ultimate way of having a good aura for the rest of the day.

So now, I am tagging Bem, Wits, Kumareng Grace, Rico, Javaqueen & Blue Rose

Baked Chicken

We had this for dinner a while ago. although buying roasted or baked chicken is just as easy as 1,2,3, I opted to make my own. You see, those cooked chicken available commercially are usually salty or bland.

So to do this:

In a bowl, mix sugar, vinegar, rosemary and voo, blend well. Pour the marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; place the chicken in. Seal bag and and refrigerate chicken for a hour or two.

Now, before you bake the chicken, you have to preheat the oven for 350C

Okay..so drain the chicken. Before placing in a baking dish, rub it with the sugar, cayenne pepper, ground pepper & rosemary.

Bake for a hour and a half

You have to try this! Bon appetit!

About My Man

I got this tag from Toni This is fun. Thanks for this.

1. He’s sitting in front of the TV: what is on the screen?

Anything That I watch, lolz

2. You are out to eat: What kind of dressing does he put on his salad?

Ceasar

3. What is the one food he doesn’t like?

Sweets.

4. You go out to the bar: what does he order?

SanMig Light

5. Where did he go to high school?

A school somewhere at Paranaque

6. What size shoe does he wear?

Secret.

7. If he were to collect anything, what would it be?

Junks, hahaha

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?

Chicken fillet Sandwhich or Tuna Sandwhich

9. What would the husband eat every day if he could?

Sinigang na baboy

10. What is his favorite cereal?

He does not eat cereal.

11. What would he never wear?

Jewelries. I wanted to buy him a funky silver bracelet but he said he will not want to wear it. Sigh

12. What is his favorite sports team?

Uhmmm....He is not into sports kasi.

13. Who will he vote for?

Obama

14. Who is his best friend?

He call his bestfriend Ponking, hahaha!!!

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?

I am stubborn sometimes and he hates that !

16. How many states has he lived in?

Not states, cities here at Manila

17. What is his heritage?

Pure Pinoy

18. You bake him a cake for his birthday: what kind?

Chocolate cake :)

19. Did he play sports in high school?

Nope.

20. What could he spend hours doing?

If not sleeping, playing God of War.

Who to tag....how about ladies that love his man so much! :)