What could be more convenient than having a bookstand to hold the cookbook that holds the recipe to your latest kitchen masterpiece?

I found this bookstand that I can’t wait to try!

Do you have any ideas for making your kitchen time more convenient?

This week, Edie McRae and Cee Tindall, have “Buzzed” Crissy Herron from Indie Biz Chicks. Not only is she a master at teaching women how to build their own internet businesses. She is pretty great in the kitchen too. Crissy has always been a ‘forward thinker’ and was a work at home gal before it was cool to be working from home.

We asked Crissy about cooking. This is what she had to say:

I love to cook! I love to look through cookbooks, I read them cover to cover, like a novel. I take the basic recipe and put my own spin on it. In addition to meals, I make a lot of cookies…….. I don’t really measure things out… I cook by intuition.

She sounds like a promising food blogger! So we asked her for a recipe or two.

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I have a confession to make. I bake doggy cookies for my dog. Yes it’s true. Dogs are people too, right? Last weekend my husband took my daughter to see the new Fast and Furious movie for a father/daughter bonding time.  I baked doggy cookies to bond with our pit bull. His Noah’s Ark treat container was getting low on goodies. I swear, he KNOWS when I’m baking for him! He gets so excited.

Here is a nutritious doggy cookie recipe that I developed from several I’ve tried over the years. It’s fun to make with little ones too. It’s so simple and uses ingredients you’re likely to have at home.

Cheese & Garlic Dog Cookies

• 1 cup wheat flour (or regular if you don’t have wheat)
• 1 cup cheddar cheese, grated and room temperature
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon butter or oil, softened
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 bouillon cube (optional)
• 1 egg

Cream cheese, egg, bouillon (optional) and butter or oil, add garlic and flour. Add enough milk to form a dry ball of dough. Don’t get it too soft. Chill for 30 minutes. Roll onto board and cut into shapes of your choosing (I use iceream cone and heart shapes). Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Then flip over and bake another 15 minutes till  hard and light brown. Store in covered container up to 1 week.

Bon-a-Puppy!

This is a continuation of my CBC with Janet from Educate Empower Enjoy.  In Janet’s last post, she asked:

Edie, since you have two kids, how do you handle the many different culinary “opinions” in your home?

GREAT question!  I have two boys who are different as night and day.  In fact, it’s like they’re from two different planets sometimes.

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