Chicken Parmesan

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I have a new family of Cast Iron skillets that I am so excited to use! This was my first experiment: Chicken Parmesan. I started with Smitten Kitchen's Milanese recipe and went from there.

Buche de Noel

From the Cake Bible. I added crumbled brownie dirt to the recipe.

Christmas Cookies

This only took 9 hours of baking :-). We have gingerbread, sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms, peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies with apricot filling, orange cookies, and oatmeal cookies (though they didn't make the photo).

Stenciled Sugar Cookies

3 Eggs
2 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
Flour until Can't Work Any More in with spoon (about 1100g)

Roll, cut and bake at 325 till they're done.

Shrimpies.

Scrimps! One of the best meals I've had: Basmati rice cooked with chicken stock and onion, shrimp steamed lightly on top, served with sliced tomatoes soaked in balsamic vinegar sprinkled with salt. I don't know why it was so delicious together, but it WAS.