NICOLE'S FAMOUS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES-Family Favorite

Everyone begs our daughter Nicole to make her famous 'Chocolate Chip Cookes'!
(Gluten Free-Use 3 Cups of your favorite GF Flour Mixture)

I am sharing her recipe...

Mix together:
1 C Granulated Sugar
1 C Brown Sugar or (1 Cup Granulated sugar and 1 TBSP Molasses)
2/3 Cup Shortening
1/3 Cup Butter (melted in microwave for 30 seconds

Add:
2 Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt

Mix together, then add 3 Cups Flour and 1 to 2 Cups Chocolate Chips

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes on cookie sheets.  As you take them out of the oven they should be slightly browned.  Drop the cookie sheet on a hard surface to flatten out the cookie.

ENJOY!!!

Brown Sugar Substitute

OUT OF BROWN SUGAR...THE PERFECT SOLUTION!!!

BROWN SUGAR SUBSTITUTE:
1 CUP GRANULATED SUGAR PLUS
1 TBSP. MOLASSES OR AGAVE SYRUP

Making cookies? Add both ingredients and mix.  No hard lumps!

Save the cost of purchasing brown sugar and trying to keep it soft.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK!

I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL AND THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH GOOD INFORMATION I WOULD POST IT ON MY BLOG.  HOPEFULLY IT WILL SAVE A LIFE!

If you have seen it before, read it again - a refresher course never hurts. I hope none of you ever have to use it, but just in case, it's info we all should have.  It could save a life, especially for those who live alone.
     1.  Let's say it's 7.25 pm and you're going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. 
     2.  You're really tired, upset and frustrated.  
     3.  Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home.  
     4.  Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.  
     5.  You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK?

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.  However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.  A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. 

A  breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. 


 Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.   


Telling as many other people as possible about this could save their lives!! 

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.  

Bob's Red Mill & Ener-G Foods

A catalog from Bob's Red Mill came in my mail the other day containing recipes, advertisements and an article about the company.   It reminded me of my first experience with Bob's Red Mill over 30 years ago.  I was diagnosed with Celiac Sprue 3 1/2 years before this company started and was I ever so excited to have a few gluten free products.

Back in the early years of this disease there were no labeling of food, no internet just a set of encyclopedias and a Webster Dictionary.  I started researching all the ingredients in foods and began my gluten free life.   I spent a lot of money trying out recipes with only one disaster after another.  I was grinding my own rice flour and trying to make muffins, cookies, pancakes etc. so I would have a few things to eat besides the basic food groups.

I also found another gluten free company, Ener-G Foods that was really good and was able to place orders through the mail.  As the internet began to take off it became easier to find gluten free products.  The Celiac Sprue Association and Gluten Intolerance Group was started and has helped get the labeling of foods on the products.

It is so much easier to be gluten free in today's world and I am very grateful to companies like Bob's Red Mill and Ener-G Foods forging the way to provide gluten free ingredients throughout the entire process.  That means every stone-grinding mill, every mixer, every packaging machine, every forklift and every air-vent is dedicated to making delicious and healthy products that are safely free from gluten.

We now have 8 people in our family diagnosed with Celiac Sprue.  Thanks to all those who provide the "Gluten Free" foods!

Happy Healthy Eating!

brenda.bailey.1@hotmail.com



C