A Family Favorite

Judy over at Patchwork Times wants to know what your favorite recipe is using Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. The all time favorite around here is the Magic Cookie Bar recipe. I've made it for years and never have any leftovers for very long. I must admit that while I use what the recipe calls for I don't measure anymore. I add more chocolate chips and I use Pecans instead of Walnuts. This is the recipe from the Eagle Brand Website:

MAGIC COOKIE BARS

 

Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 cups (12 oz. pkg.) semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/3 cups flaked coconut

1 cup chopped nuts

Instructions

HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray.

COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer evenly with chocolate chips, coconut and nuts. Press down firmly with fork.

BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Loosen from sides of pan while still warm; cool on wire rack. Cut into bars or diamonds.

For perfectly cut cookie bars, line entire pan with foil, extending foil over edge of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick cooking spray. After bars have baked and cooled, lift up with edges of foil to remove from pan. Cut into bars.

VARIATIONS

SUBSTITUTE chocolate chips or nuts with candy coated pieces, dried cranberries, raisins, mini-marshmallows or butterscotch chips.

Nutritional Information Per Serving

Serving Size (1 bar, 1/24 of recipe), Calories 240 (Calories from Fat 140), Total Fat 16g (Saturated Fat 9g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 15mg, Sodium 80mg, Total Carbohydrate 24g (Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 19g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 6%, Iron 6%.

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

 

A Beautiful Day

One of the of the things I love about living here in the high desert are the glorious sunsets. This was tonight's. The last two days have been lovely pre-spring weather. Unfortunately, according to the weatherman we might have some more snow Friday evening and Saturday.

I've been doing alittle sewing and a little knitting and some reading. What have you been doing with your day?

Another Mystery Quilt

I don't know what got into me but I'm doing another mystery quilt this time from Patchwork Times. These are my fabrics:

 

These are the blocks/units we made for step one:

 

 

 They are easy to do so far and the pieces are large. It is nice to do a mystery quilt with larger pieces for a change. You get one clue a month and it runs for a year.

E-Book Review

I was asked by Eric Woolf of Fons and Porter last fall to review their Log Cabin ebook. I told him I wouldn't be able to do so until after Christmas if that would work and he said that was fine.

 

I've been quilting for close to 27 years now and have done several log cabin quilts over the years. This is a nicely laid out basic ebook with 3 easy to do quilt patterns in it. There are cutting charts for the blocks and pictures so you can see what it should look like. There are also choices given for different layouts.  I would say it would be a good resource for a new or beginning quilter.  That being said I don't think quilters of several years expierence would look at this and say WOW I have to have this book.  

What I'm Reading

Over on Patchwork Times Judy Laquidara is having a link up for what you are reading. Since I got my Kindle Fire I've been reading all my books on it and this is the the one I am currently reading. It is from her Dundee, Idaho series. I've always been a reader, but I'm reading all the time since I got the Kindle Fire. I carry it with me so if I'm stuck waiting somewhere I can read.

Happy Dance on Easy Street

Finally, thanks to my friend Gail I am able to post a picture on the blog. For those having the same problem and haven't figured it out yet this is what I did. When you are in new post and click on insert image and that screen comes up over on the left in the upper corner you see Compose  and HTML. Click on html and it will let you get a picture from your computer. When you go back to new post screen click on Compose and your image displays and you can type what you want to say. Why it's become this cumbersome to post an image I don't know, but at least it is now working.

Now the Easy Street part. This is the corner of my Easy Street which is now in a top without borders, but I haven't taken a picture of the whole thing yet. I will get borders on it as soon as it warms up here in Southern Idaho (see header picture). It has been very cold here since Christmas and my quilt room is heated by a heat pump which doesn't work once it gets this cold.

Update: Now have it in top form needs borders.

 

I am so excited that I can once again post pictures.

Happy New Year

This morning when I looked out the window this is what I saw. The trees sparkled with frost. It has been cold here the last couple of weeks and may get up to freezing by Friday or Saturday.

Also I had an email from Stash Tea Company about their giveaway they have going. If you go to their Facebook page you can enter their giveaway to win tea for a year. The giveaway runs until January 31st one entry per person, but there are other ways listed so you can have more than one entry.

Last night I did Step 7 on the Quiltville Mystery here are the two units we had to do.

 

This is one of the corner units.

 

 

 

 This is one of the large triangles.

 

Now I am off to see what is next to do for today.