Curiosity Garden

Greek Butter Cookies ~ My First Cookie Recipe All By Myself

I've been reading lots of library books about cooking in other countries. I decided I wanted to try making one of the recipes I had read about. This recipe is for Greek Butter Cookies. It comes from the book Cooking the Greek Way by Lynne W. Villios. It's under "Books I've Read" on my left sidebar if you want to take a look.

Greek Butter Cookies

2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 c. (2 sticks butter, softened)
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
powdered sugar for sprinkling

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until well blended. Add vanilla and almond extracts and mix well.
4. With your hands, form dough into balls, crescents, or S-shapes, using about 1/2 teaspoon at a time.
5. Place cookies 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Put cookie sheet on middle oven rack and bake 15 minutes, or until barely brown around the edges.
6. Remove cookies from cookie sheet with spatula and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
7. With flour sifter, sprinkle powdered sugar over cookies.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

These are the cookies after they were done:

At The Creek After It Rained

A couple of days ago I went down to our creek. It was much higher than normal because it had just rained. It was rushing and loud.

My dad has a ladder stand attached to a tree and I went up and sat for awhile and I took pictures.

First, my mom took a picture of me so you could see what it looks like:

This is the creek below, looking down from where I'm sitting:

These are the tree tops with rain on them:

 

While I was sitting in the ladder stand, my dad made a place to cross the creek with rocks. It will be easier now to step across the creek on the rocks.

These are some other pictures I took:

 

What You Can Do With Strawberries

First we went strawberry picking:

We made strawberry shortcake:

Then my mom made jam. This is me putting the jam on toast:

My Cat

This is my hilarious kitty cat, sitting and washing herself. Her name is Brooke. We adopted her from the cat shelter when she was 3 years old. She's 7 now.

She's a very lovable thing.