Hallmark!
Today is Peanut Butter Cookie day which celebrates a popular cookie with the criss crosses on the top. The peanut butter cookie just wouldn’t be quite right without this iconic decoration.
The Aztecs invented peanut butter in the 14th century, but peanut better cookies didn’t become an American favorite until the early 1900’s. In 1916, George Washington Carver began promoting the peanut and its many uses. As part of the campaign he published 3 peanut butter cookie recipes in a research bulletin entitled, How to grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption.
In 1932 the Schenectady Gazette published the first peanut butter cookie recipe that call for the criss cross fork marks on the top.
To celebrate today, get out your favorite recipe and make a batch of homemade peanut butter cookies to enjoy!
If you cannot see the bright side, polish the dull side
T HOUGHT FOR TODAY
Peanut Butter makes everything Peanut Better.
Author Unknown
The weather had been warming up here, but today is to be cooler so I could turn the oven on if I wanted to. Truthfully I don’t make many cookies anymore. I’m the only one here to eat them so I wait until I have someone else to feed them to.
I do love peanut butter and the cookies made with it, so today I may have a peanut butter sandwich for lunch which is what the pictures today are showing .
On today’s menu is:
Beef and Rice Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
Makes 6 servings
12 cabbage leaves
1 cup cooked brown rice
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/4 cup milk
1/4 tsp pepper
1 lb. lean ground beef
Sauce:
1 can, 8 oz., tomato sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
In a batch cook cabbage in boiling water until crisp tender. Drain, cool slightly. Trim the thick vein from the bottom of each cabbage leaf, making V shaped cut
In a large bowl, combine rice, onion, milk, and pepper. Add beef. mix lightly but throughly . Place about 1/4 cup beef mixture on each cabbage leaf. Pull together cut edges of leaf to overlap; fold over filling. Fold in sides and roll up.
Place 5 rolls in a slow cooker, seam side down. In a bowl mix sauce ingredients, pour half over the cabbage rolls. Top with remaining rolls and sauce. Cook covered on low about 8 hours or until a thermometer inserted in beef reads 160 degrees and cabbage is tender.
One serving equals 2 cabbage rolls.
This is not my regular cabbage roll recipe, normally I’d be using tomato juice not sauce, but it is pretty close. I’’ve omitted the salt and sugar which was originally in this recipe.
I will be off early to take the car in to be worked on. My daughter will pick me up and bring me home.
I hope you all have a GREAT start to this new week! Happy Monday!
COUNTING MY BLESSINGS
God spreds grace like a 4 year old spreads peanut butter, He gets it all over everything/
Mark Lowry
Counting at least 3 things every day that I'm thankful for. There is truly is always something to be thankful for.
11,383 for Peanut Butter, good and good for you!
11,384. for an early start to the day
11,385. for a healthy dinner tonight
4 comments:
Peanut butter is good and good for you too!
I never knew that about the origin of the fork marks. 'Not much of a cookie eater, but LOVE me some JIF extra-crunchy on a spoon!
Back in the 70's, my former husband enjoyed hosting a New Years Day open house, featuring his special cabbage rolls. So, of course, that meant instead of dancing and drinking champagne on NY Eve, we were boiling and baking cabbage rolls. He used tomato juice, too -- and mixed ground pork 50/50 with the beef. Enjoy your dinner!
I must have been under a rock, I do not remember ever having that standard P-nut butter cookie. LOL BUT PEANUTS? It was long before my time but my daddy was a p-nut farmer. I have memories of the stories of that farming most of my life. Dad was proud of his work as a share cropper in Georgia and his crop of p nuts.
Love ya lady,
Sherry & jack
Peanut butter makes everything taste better - or most things - lol.
Some people put a Hersey Kiss on top - I think my mom did.
I like God spreading his grace - like kids spread jelly!
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