Sunflower

These were fantastic Christmas cookies. Not too sweet or too heavy. Great addition to my Christmas cookie baskets this year.

Awesome! Very rich, very minty! We loved these.

This Icing is fantastic. I decorated 3 dozen Christmas cookies. It dries hard, and fast. I did use vanilla instead of almond extract. I did find it easier to mix the sugar into the milk and not the other way around. It's easier to control the thickness. When applied in a thick coat to cooled sugar cookies, this icing is bright and quite impressive. Really brightened up my cookie boxes.

Yum. I did increase the sugar by 1/2 cup, and add a bit of extra vanilla. Very good sugar cookies. I didn't find them bland, but I think they might have been without the extra sugar. Topped them with icing.

This was good, but I to change a few things due to a lack of ingredients. I didn't have any fresh basil on hand, so I used 1tsp of dry basil leaves in the sauce, and another 1/2tsp in the breading mixture. No eggs either, but I had some sour cream, so I watered it down a bit and used that to dip the chicken in before breading. Worked really well, as my breading stuck to the chicken even after I mixed it in the sauce. Dirties a lot of pans, but fairly easy to make. and I like the little bit of kick from the red pepper flakes. I really want to try this again with the fresh basil, I'm sure it makes this pasta even better.

The mushroom gravy was great. The only change I made was using fresh mushrooms instead of the canned. I thought the patties could have had a bit more flavor. Next time I'll add a bit of garlic to the ground beef mixture. Really easy to make, made a great weeknight dinner with mashed potatoes and peas. Update: Made this a second time, again with fresh mushrooms. I added a large clove of minced garlic, extra onion and cracker crumbs to the beef patties. Allowed the mushrooms to cookin in the butter for about 5 minutes to soften them up more, and added a bit of cornstarch to the gravy to thicken it up a bit. Really perfect cold weather comfort food.