cooking with butter--couldn't be better.....

I have a lot of cookbooks and cooking magazines. It gets a little overwhelming. Have you ever decided to try a new recipe, gotten all of the ingredients and then couldn't remember where you saw that recipe? (OK all of you organized people stay out of this :)

So my big idea is to take one cookbook per week, look through it and make the week's menu using this one book. It has been fun and made us branch out and try new things.

This week it has been the Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys & Girls- the 1982 edition. (Liz B. do you remember Beth giving this to me for a b-day gift???....what a great gift along with bowl, spatula and ingredients to make the marshmallow puffs)

The recipes are fun for the kids to make and reminiscent of childhood treats of the 80's. My kids liked the idea of the Porcupine salad - but didn't like the cream cheese mixture on the bottom- so if you make it; you could leave that out- the photo tells the important details- the quills are slivered almonds.
The marshmallow puffs are good. I have to share the recipe with you. This is the kind of thing where if you are desperate one night at about 9:30 and have no treats, you could make this and be happy :)
Marshmallow Puffs
18 large marshmallows
36 Nilla wafers
3/4 c. semisweet chocolate chips
3 tbsp. butter

Cut 18 marshmallows in half with scissors. Arrange the Nilla wafers on a cookie sheet. Place one marshmallow cut side down on each wafer. Bake at 350 for 4 minutes (until marshmallows puff but before they begin to tip over). Refrigerate the cookies on the cookie sheet for 10 min. Heat the choc. chips and butter over low heat until melted. Dip the tops of the cooled cookies into the chocolate mixture. Refrigerate 15 min. until set.

cutting the marshmallows

(I just found out via spell check that it is Marshmallows...I ALWAYS thought it was marshmellows)
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Now it is Monday morning and I am on a diet again (every Monday morning I start off strong and then it goes down hill from there :) :) Hope you have a fabulous Monday- eat at least one treat :)