Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Grandma B's Peanut Butter  Cookies

Tonight I'm baking...

... peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!  Yum!

It's Grandma B's Peanut Butter cookie recipe - one of the recipes at my daughter's "Recipe Shower".  

Each guest brought a favourite recipe AND a recipe for a happy marriage.  Grandma B was the groom's grandmother.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

Cream well in mixer.

1 cup peanut butter

1 egg

Add and beat well.

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 cup chocolate chips

Mix in flour and soda.  Add chocolate chips.

Roll into balls and press with fork.

Bake at 375 for 10 - 12 minutes.

Makes about four dozen.

Now for a recipe for a happy marriage!  This message is from the groom's aunt - wonder how many cookies she ate as a child? : )

Recipe for a Successful Marriage

from Aunt S.

(My first try I wasn't very successful, but I learned a lot!)

Enjoy the things you share, those things will always be there.

~~~

Plan ahead together, it's much more fun to work on a common goal.

~~~

Laugh together, a lot.  Have fun, enjoy the moments you share.

~~~

Keep your friends - each of you - friends are very important all your lives.

~~~

Talk it out - even if the first words out of your mouth are, "This isn't going to come out right..."  At least it's out there to talk about.

Cynthia's Salsa Chicken

Cynthia's Salsa Chicken

For dinner last night, we had Salsa Chicken, an easy, tasty dish that can be prepared ahead of time.

Cynthia, a family friend, shared this recipe a few years ago at a "Recipe Shower" for one of my daughters.  Each guest brought a favourite recipe AND a recipe for a happy marriage.  Enjoy!

Cynthia's Salsa Chicken

12 - 18 skinless, chicken thighs or 6-8 chicken breasts

3/4 cup salsa (mild, medium or hot, depending on taste)

1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce

1/4 cup orange juice

2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

2 teaspoons olive oil

1 - 1/2 tablespoons grated ginger root (optional)

Arrange chicken in a single layer in 9 x 13 baking dish.

In a medium bowl, combine marinade ingredients.

Pour marinade over chicken.

Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

Bake chicken and sauce, covered, in 400 degree oven 

for 40 - 50 minutes.

1 tablespoon cornstarch

2 tablespoons water

When chicken is done, transfer sauce to saucepan. 

Bring to a boil.  Mix and add cornstarch and water mixture.

Stir for 1 - 2 minutes as mixture simmers and thickens.

Pour sauce over chicken.

Cynthia's Salsa Chicken

Now for Cynthia's recipe for a happy marriage!  Good advice from a lady happily married for over forty years.

Marriage Recipe

Then catch the moments as they fly,

And use them as ye ought, man,

Remember, happiness is shy,

And comes not aye, when sought, man.

- Robert Burns

Have fun catching the moments, doing things spontaneously, 

having many varied experiences together.

- Cynthia

March 11 - Sent this recipe over to Weekend Potluck # 57 - a great place to check out recipes!