1.Scoop out a small amount of the mixture and rub it into your hands. Rinse well.
5starcookies Turkish coffee
2. You can use for your garbage – Fill up an old pair of pantyhose with some dry coffee grounds, and hang the mixture on the inside of your trash can lid.
3. Add coffee grounds to houseplants to give them a boost, mixing it into the soil. Coffee grounds are high in nitrogen, and are great for houseplants.
5.Pour used coffee grounds down the sink or bathtub drain, followed by 3 drops of dish soap and a pot of boiling water. This will clean and clear the drain of clogs and built up grease.
Miss America and the best coffee cake called Grandma’s Famous Jimmy Cake. Have you heard about this cake…Don’t worry I am not judging if you haven’t. After all food blogging is here for you…so you can learn and share.
5 star cookies jimmy cake
About Grandma’s Famous Jimmy Cake
Here she comes – 1989. Miss America!
And she comes with lawsuit …Yes, that is correct! Gretchen Carlson filed the lawsuit against her boss, one of the most powerful man,
an American television executive Roger Ailes.
She says Ailes repeatedly made advances toward her, calling her “sexy”, asking for a sexual relationship during a meeting in his office and so on….
Because she says “NO”…long story short her contract was not renewed.
So, my dear readers why I am bringing this story to you?
Because, Gretchen Carlson courage is inspiring.
So many victims of sexual harassment are intimidated into staying silent.
Well, this Miss America was not. She stood her ground and also made her own statement.
“I have strived to empower women and girls throughout my entire career. Although this was a difficult step to take, I had to stand up for myself and speak out for all women and the next generation of women in the workplace.”
Dear my readers, please find her twitter account and support her.
Grandmas Famous Jimmy Cake
How to make The Best Coffee Cake?
And just for her I am going to make my new favorite cake, Great Grandma’s Famous Jimmy Cake.
Bake at 325 F for about 1 hour. (it was 45 min for me)
Cool cake. If desired add chocolate icing.
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Great Grandma's Famous Jimmy Cake
Ingredients
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup butter
2 cups icing sugar
2 tsp baking powder
4 egg yolks
4 egg white, beaten
1 cup cold coffee
1 cup chocolate jimmies
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1tsp vanilla
Glaze:
2 cups chocolate
1 Tbsp oil
Instructions
Cream oil and butter.
Add icing sugar and mix.
Add 4 eggs yolks, coffee and vanilla.
Mix in flour,salt, baking powder. Add jimmies.
Fold in beaten egg whites.
Baking in 9 inch tube pan at 325 F for about 1 hour.
Melt the chocolate and oil and top the cake.
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If you ever watch “Sex and the city” you would know who is the “Mr Big”!
But do you know who is the Big P?
The Big P is my new star cookie. He is one of those cookies with a big and I mean a big personality…you will notice him as soon as …well you can judge yourself
5starcookies big p
I am so and totally in love with BIG P! I can’t stop taking picture of him…and he has so much filling…
5starcookies big p outside
Happy Sunday my readers!
Enjoy your life. Eat some cookies…and DREAM…DREAM BIG…
FIND YOUR MR. BIG AND EAT YOUR BIG P COOKIE!
“ONLY AS HIGH AS I REACH, CAN I GROW
ONLY AS FAR AS I SEEK, CAN I GO
ONLY AS DEEP AS I LOOK, CAN I SEE
ONLY AS MUCH AS I DREAM, CAN I BE
5starcookies big p flowers
DID YOU KNOW?
The Mr. Big character was based on publishing executive Ron Galotti, former publisher of GQ and Talk.
It is Monday morning (my day off), the sun is shining outside and I am ready for the Strawberry Sunshine Drink.
Ingredients:
1 cup fresh strawberries (they came from the Local Farmers Market and they are full of sunshine)
1 banana (organic)
1/2 cup water
Optional for decoration: blueberries, whip cream
Just for a moment stop your life and enjoy strawberries full of sunshine…don’t you love your Local Farmers Market…
Find your blender….(it does not need to be expensive one)
Put all ingredients into blender and blend.
Fill your glass with Strawberry Sunshine Drink and enjoy…
5starcookies strawberry in glass
If you are not a plain Jane and you want more fancy drink top with some whip cream and blueberries…(let’s hope you don’t count calories)
5starcookies strawberry top with blueberry
Enjoy and share with your stomach….
5starcookies strawberry on the floor
5starcookies strawberry top
Please visit your local farmers market and support them.
Strawberries may be kept fresh in the refrigerator for three or more days, depending upon the initial quality of the berry. After a few days in storage,
however, the fruit looses its bright color and fresh flavor and tend to shrivel.
Did you know?
Always rinse strawberries with hulls on, so berries do not get water logged or lose any vitamin content.
How can you have an organic apple cider vinegar, weight and fun in one sentence and still say to yourself:
– Yes, I am an honest person.
Even Pinocchio is calling his PR department (Public Relations) in panic and saying “Nobody can have a bigger nose than me. Nobody! How dare you to try!”
But since I am a decent human being and I believe in “I can and I will” my post today is the Apple Cider Vinegar Drink – Lose Weight and Have Fun!
So, Pinocchio calm down and try to become more open-minded…Immediately!
If you still have a sour face don’t worry, you still can’t compete with our main ingredients Organic Apple Cider Vinegar.
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
Now, we know who is the king in this post. So, Pinocchio please go back into your made up story and let my readers believe in this magic drink.
Because, it is important to surround yourself with people you like…and a lots of water.
Now, we got the second most important ingredients…WATER.
Time for making magic happen. NOW!
8 oz Water
2 tsp Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
Mix 2 teaspoons of organic apple cider vinegar with 8 oz of water.
Drink it with a straw.
Apple Cider Vinegar Drink
If you are open-minded person and you have a thirst for knowledge and curiosity about the world around you buy
an apple scented candle.
Why?
Because it reduces stress hormone!
Also aroma of apples stimulates the appetite control center of the brain, helping you stop eating sooner.
Light the candle during the meals…and believe in magic of ….
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar Drink!
So, where is the fun in this story?-Pinocchio is asking.
I don’t know, ask the rabbit in my garden!
Rabbit in my garden
Or just create some fun using your own imagination….find the hula-hoop and start smiling while losing inches….
Do you ever have one of those days when everything seems to be perfect?
It is a sunny day outside, your soul is at the peace and your generous heart full of chocolate is asking for … let me pause for a moment….your heart is asking for fruit …Are you kidding me?
Of course, I am. To be exact the heart is asking for cherry strudel. Oh you greedy heart, how can I say no to you?
Of course I can’t and being the hard working person that I am I am moving my body towards my little kitchen and
I am going to create the magic called Cherry Strudel.
Like always, the project manager in me needs to create the ingredients list.
So, what do we need?
-flour, butter, sour cream, sugar,cornstarch, cherries…Easy, don’t you think?
Once you have all ingredients let me show you your destination in making…Cherry Strudel!
5 star cookies cherry strudel piece 1
Now, when you have the ingredients list and picture of destination let’s start baking.
First step – strudel dough. (You can use mixer, blender or your hands)
I use blender. Mix 1 cup of flour and 1/2 cup butter.
Add 1/2 cup sour cream (14%) and keep mixing it until all ingredients are blended together.
Form a ball, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for at least one hour or up to overnight.
Now, you completed your first step.
Step 2 – Stretch dough
Sprinkle wax paper lightly with flour and place dough in center.
With a floured rolling pin, roll out dough into a rectangular shape 12 x 9. Dough should be thin as tissue paper.
Step 3 – make cherry filling and sugar mixture (the recipe is below)
Step 4 – Fill the dough with fruit mixture
Sprinkle the dough with 1/4 cup of sugar mixture, add 2 cups cherries and top with the rest of sugar mixture.
Fold dough over half of cherry mixture and then fold other half. Seal the edges. (very important, all of them)
Cherry Filling:
2 cups cherries
Sugar Mixture
1 cup sugar
1/8 cup flour
1/8 cup cornstarch
Mix sugar, flour and cornstarch.
5starcookeis unbaked strudel
Bake at 400 F for 30 min. until lightly brown.
5starcookies strudel 3 pieces
Start eating….
5starcookies cherry strudel
CSI - Cherry Strudel Crime Scene
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sour cream
Filling:
2 cup cherries
Sugar Filling:
1 cup sugar
1/8 cup flour
1/8 cup cornstarch
Instructions
Using blender mix flour and butter.
Add 1/2 cup sour cream.
Mix all into a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour or longer.
Roll the ball into a rectangular shape 12 x 9.
Fill the middle with 1/4 cup sugar mixture, add 2 cups cherries and top with the rest of sugar mixture (1 cup)
Fold dough over half of mixture and then fold other half.
Bake at 400 F for 30 min.
Top with icing sugar or walnuts if you like.
Enjoy!
So, how can you have a perfect day and CSI – Cherry Strudel Crime Scene?
Let me, show you….
5 star cookies crime scene on balcony
Don’t you love this crime..nothing that little tongue can’t fix it!
5starcokies crime scene
So, what was my mistake? Look the picture below and try to guess…
5starcookies CSI Cherry Strudel
I did not seal all edges…you can see the sugar mixture above and cherry ready for the baking crime….
5 star cookies crime scene
However, it still was the best strudel for my chocolate heart … and don’t worry about the cherry mess…any child would lick it. (adults too)
Please let’s have baking crime as the only crime in this Universe….and let’s make this world the place of peace and love.
And somewhere in my garden birds are singing…and sending you….
5starcookies birds
Sending you love, cookies, cakes and cherries strudel from my imaginary piece of virtual reality called
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