Friday friend recipes number 339 and 340

 

and you know all the whys and wherefores of this countdown, right? Homemade cookbook, friends contributed, Handyman said I couldn't/wouldn't do it, I'll show him, yadda yadda yadda....

...and the rest is cookbook history!

Just remember, the countdown is not all about pretty food and food design---it's about the people and the stories.

And (the most important thing) proving my husband wrong--and that I can and WILL make every recipe in this cookbook.

Which brings me to recipes #339 and #340

Ashley's   Pecan Tartlets and Chicken Piccatta

      

It's like a slice of pecan pie you can just pop in your mouth!

Yummy!

I really would not make it as a food photographer.  

White on white on white?

This is really good!  I like artichokes and capers. Oh, and chicken.  I like chicken---it comes out so moist in this recipe. 

And this brings me to the end of Ashley--her recipes anyway.

Maybe I'm going so slow at the end of this cookbook countdown because it feels like I am saying goodbye to my friends. 

(yes I am sentimental)

(yes I know I can just call and see her anytime)

(but this is different 😉)

Ashley.

She likes all things Disney.

She likes baseball (specifically the San Francisco Giants)

She likes snowmen.

She likes to cook.

She owns a few restaurants. 

Speaking of their restaurants, at the Griddle, the restaurant in Winnemucca (well, they are all named The Griddle--they just have 4 or 5 of them in different cities) I do love the meatloaf sandwich. 

Why am I randomly talking about meatloaf all of the sudden?

Because I found this conversation from an old Friday Friend Forum folder. 

Mmmmm-- it really is good on grilled sourdough with grilled onions and jack cheese. 

You can see all her recipes in the Friday Friend Cookbook countdown, right here.  Just click.

It's kind of fun to go back and see what all everyone made. 

Goodbye my friend!

(at least in this cookbook world)

So, friends, My friends!  These are recipes #339 and 340

out of 361 (I'm 99% sure I have all the math down pat now)

2023 will be the year!!

(Although I'm slow going)

Then what will I do?

Friday friend recipe #310 and 311--Ashley's Cookies

 

 I am under 60 recipes now--I must get this done!  At least to prove something to myself if not the Handyman...

 because...

...about 22 years ago, 50 of my closest friends and family, who had been on an

  e-mail forum with me, sent in recipes in different categories and we compiled a cookbook.

I decided to count those down!

Why?

because one night I was looking thru the cookbook and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog."

The Handyman/Mayor, who thinks he knows me better than I know myself, said "you'll never EVER do that."

Well, maybe I will!  Maybe I'll show him!

Which brings us to Ashley's Cookies!

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I just need to hurry up and 'get 'er done'

Then I'll show him!

And as always, it's not about the quality of the photos, it's about the family, friends and fun we have all had together!

These are very special friend cookies!

You have to like nuts--because there are a lot of nuts in the making of this!  

(and I don't mean just me and Ashley 😊)

This is a really good cookie--- I love nuts in a cookie.

If you do too, then think of this as a chocolate chip cookie on steroids!

It's not just walnuts--It's ALL THE NUTS!

And please take note that it does say, "plain old drop cookie" in those directions--because that's what I did--I just dropped them. 

Then I put a butter frosting glaze on them.

They are very good.

(it's no wonder I need to go on a diet!)

I bet Ashley uses these for her Christmas cookies, but I know that she doesn't just drop them, she'll roll them and cut them out and then decorate them.

One year during the Holiday time, Ashley and her mom and sister baked cookies for an entire weekend--like 24 different recipes--and then she made a booklet and gave it to me with a platter full of the cookies they made. (that's how I know she really does do the rolling and cut out of these great butter cookies), but on that platter and in that booklet, there is a recipe for an eggnog cookie with a butterscotch center that I loved and have never ever been able to duplicate. 

Hey! When I'm done with this cookbook countdown maybe I'll count down Ashley's cookie booklet!

Everybody loves cookies!

This is Ashley's 10th appearance in a blog post, (check out all her posts by

 clicking here.  go on--do it!) but in some there are more than 1 recipe, so I guess this is my 9th story about her.   I'm running out of new photos (because she moved away!!) and new stories (because she's been gone for a while now), maybe I should write a story about our friend Betty!  Betty is on the left.

When you click on Ashley's backstories, Betty is prominent in 6 of them, and there are only 9.  It's just that Betty never turned in a recipe, so ????

Now have you just gotten back from checking out Ashley's other Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown posts?

Isn't it funny that Betty is in almost all of them?

I first met Betty and Ashley, when the Handyman/Mayor was on the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.  Long story short, he left, I got a job there, I am now the Executive Director of the Chamber, Ashley moved away but still owns a restaurant here in Winnemucca and Betty is the Planning Director for the County.  (she'll get annoyed with me as I don't think that is her official title, BUT since she is the only person in the Planning Department office, that's what I'm going to call her.)

These 2 friends are excellent cooks!

And planners.

All the photos below are from events they planned.

1.  Harvest Hops and Grapes (a beer and wine tasting event.  It was pretty unique when it first began.  It lasted for 20 years and then another event took its place)

2. Another year, another Hops and Grapes event.

3.  And the Chamber's Garden Tour!

Ashley and Betty are ready to go out and be the hosts at a house/home in the community (with a great garden) as residents come tour.

You will have noticed more 'events' where these two were cooking together, selling tickets together, cleaning up together, when you checked out Ashley's other FF Cookbook Countdown posts. 

If you missed it just click here.

And these, my friends are

recipes #310 and #311

Only 56 left to go!

I can do it!

WOO HOO!  I am below 75 recipes now.  Yay!  Yahoo! Whoopie!