I don't do cookies! I only iron Bill's shirts.
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Laura Bush's Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups light-brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 cups quick oats (not old-fashioned)
2 cups chopped walnuts
1 1/2 packages (8 ounces each) chocolate chunks (3 cups)
2 cups coarsely chopped dried sour cherries
Heat oven to 350°. With electric mixer, cream butter and both sugars. Beat in eggs one at a time, then beat in vanilla. Add flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and oats; slowly beat until blended. Stir in walnuts, chocolate and cherries. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake at 350° for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden brown. Makes about 8 dozen.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spice Cookies
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup canned pumpkin puree (from 15-ounce can; do not use pumpkin pie filling)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins
Heat oven to 375°. With electric mixer, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg, pumpkin and vanilla. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and allspice. Stir into pumpkin mixture. Stir in chopped walnuts and raisins. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a well-greased cookie sheet and bake at 375° for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden on edges. Makes about 5 dozen.
I'm not a real fan of pumpkin anything, so Mrs. Kerry's cookie recipe doesn't appeal to me.
Not too sure about chocolate chunk in oatmeal cookies either.
Laura used to have a really good cookie recipe on the White House website. Cowboy Cookies, I think.
She has some wonderful recipes on there.
Smoked shrimp with Mango salsa
Baked potato soup
Carrot Muffins
Vegetable soup.
It's worth checking the website out. I can't remember where they are exactly, but I found them before by entering "recipe" into the search function.
I'm surprised one of the ingredients in TAH-RAY-ZUH's cookies isn't Botox.
I'm partial to pumpkin pie with whipped cream, but that's the only way I'll eat pumpkin. All other squash is NOT food, as far as I'm concerned.
I also consider oats/oatmeal horse fodder, but in deference to Mrs. Bush, I'm going to try her cookies. Perhaps I'll find a use for the 20 lb bag of oatmeal my tenant wanted, then stopped eating because his Dr. told him to eat differently.
Long story, and you don't want or need to hear it..........
OH... NO.. several days ago I had the sudden urge to make one of my non-recipe-spontaneously-concocted-freak-cookie-batches. I decided to make ginger-cinnamon-spice pumpkin cookies - something I had never made before, or even heard of before. This can't be a good sign...
Somehow I just can't imagine THK in the kitchen cooking up anything but trouble....I think the scenario went something like this: "Hey, one of you underlings, get me a recipe quick for this stupid womens rag!"
Yes, I can picture Mrs. Ketchup baking cookies. She and Hillary probably have baking parties.
They serve this in the Senate cafeteria. It is fun to ride the little train that takes the capital personel to the basement of the capital. I haven't been there since 9/11 so I don't know if they still allow you to ride it. Since you have to go to security to be in that building, it should still be allowed.
The Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup Recipe
2 pounds dried navy beans
four quarts hot water
1 1/2 pounds smoked ham hocks
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste
Wash the navy beans and run hot water through them until they are slightly whitened. Place beans into pot with hot water. Add ham hocks and simmer approximately three hours in a covered pot, stirring occasionally. Remove ham hocks and set aside to cool. Dice meat and return to soup. Lightly brown the onion in butter. Add to soup. Before serving, bring to a boil and season with salt and pepper. Serves 8.
1 butler
1 driver
3 valet staff
Obtain advertisement. Summon butler to the day room and give him advertisement and directions to the Ethel Kennedy Bakery and Tea Room in Boston. Assign driver to take the butler into the city in one of the mid-priced SUV's. Tell butler to record the cookie purchase under "Primary Election Expenses". Assign valet staff to distribute cookies at the Katie Couric birthday celebration in the flower garden. Serves 240 (contributors only).
So, are we to believe that Teresa Kerry ever actually made these cookies ? More than likely she simply took an ancient family recipe and put her name on it.
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Doesn't this PROVE that women should be in the kitchen?!?
It's said that every year this contest has been run the winner has become first lady. Just going by my judgement of the pictures, we'll see Laura Bush as first lady in 2005. Wonder is Teresa's recipe is even hers.