Secret family recipe 19: Kitchen table s’mores party!

Ingredients: marshmallows, chocolate, graham crackers

Equipment: skewers, lighter, plates, willing participants

Directions: Patiently brown marshmallows. S’more ’em up!

Tip: Broiling will work but jeopardize the micro-campfire feel.

Wikipedia stock photo. Darn! Why didnt I take pictures?!

Chocolate chip cookie fix: *Not able to be called a secret family recipe due to existence of a sacred secret family ccc recipe*

Wanted cookies. Googled small batch. Found this recipe. Ignored fancy parts of directions (“meld”?). Mixed ingredients and baked them immediately. Done.

I’m obviously not a food blogger.

  

Definitely not a food blogger.

Looking better…

  

Voilà! Better than Chewy Chips Ahoy!

 

My Top Ten Week, Day 3: Best store-bought cookies


10. Nutter Butter

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Peanut butter flavor and cream filling. What’s not to like? (Image/walmart.com)


 

9. Vienna Fingers

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For a vanilla sort of day. (Image/walmart.com)


 

8. Windmill Cookies

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Used to buy these in the bulk department at Wegmans. (Image/groceries-express.com)


 

7. Girl Scout Thin Mints

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So good out of the freezer!


 

6. Oreo

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Iconic. (Image/oreo.com)


 

5. Stella d’oro Breakfast Treats

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One of the things we would buy on shopping sprees with our grandfather. (Image/walmart.com)


 

4. Lorna Doone

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Got hooked on these when they used to give them in exchange for a little blood donation. (Image/freshdirect.com)


 

3. Keebler Fudge Sticks

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The current “reward” for sparing a pint of blood. My favorite kind of cookie. . . dipped in chocolate! (Image/creativecouponing.com)


2. Any sugar wafer

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Vanilla is best, followed by strawberry, with chocolate a distant third. (Image/steve-z.com)


1. Sunshine Sugar Wafers

 

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Nothing compares to these, but they don’t even make ’em anymore 😢. (Image/socialgrocery.com)