I am not the world’s best housekeeper. I will win no awards for my cooking. However, my home is a warm inviting place and I love to entertain.
I think what keeps people coming back is that I always come up with something different for an appetizer or dessert, depending on the occasion.
I had a barbeque on Monday to celebrate Memorial Day. My father was killed in Vietnam so I want to honor him every day but do something special for holidays.
We had so much food and amazingly, this time we had very few leftovers. I think I may have found the secret to great grilled barbeque chicken. I used to always marinate it in barbeque sauce and then throw it on the grill. This time I soaked it in brine for four hours, cooked it, and right before it was done, brushed the barbeque sauce on. There was not a piece of chicken to be found.
The chicken, while good, was not the hit of the party. Dessert, as always, was the shining star.
When I’m having a lot of people over I don’t usually have time to do anything fancy. I have to spend my time cleaning before they get here.
This is the easiest dessert ever, and it was gone before anything else got eaten.
Cookie-Candy cups are so easy and there are ways to make them even easier. I started with store bought cookie dough, the kind in the flat package, 24 cookies per package.
You can make your own cookie dough if you want but this is pretty much perfection and no one notices the cookies aren’t homemade.
Take the dough and push it into the bottom and sides of a mini muffin pan. Bake.
While your cookie cups are baking, unwrap mini Reese’s peanut butter cups or Rolos. When the cookies come out of the oven sick a candy in the middle.
Let cool a few minutes and transfer to a wire rack. Share if you like. Next time I’m eating them all.