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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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 For you , The Haunted Wordsmith

INGREDIENTS

2 cups/256 grams all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

¼ teaspoon allspice

½ cup/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick), soft but cool

½ cup/4 ounces/113 grams cream cheese, cold and cut into 8 pieces

¾ cup/165 grams light brown sugar, packed

½ cup/101 grams granulated sugar

¾ cup/202 grams pumpkin purée

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 ¾ cups/303 grams chocolate chips

PREPARATION

Heat oven to 350 degrees, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, stir the flour, baking soda, salt and spices until well combined.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter, cream cheese, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Beat on medium-high until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add the pumpkin purée and vanilla extract, and mix to combine.

Turn the mixer to low, and add the dry ingredients. Mix until a few streaks of flour remain. Remove the bowl from the mixer, add the chocolate chips and use a rubber spatula to fold the mixture until well combined.

Scoop the cookies onto prepared baking sheets using a 1-ounce (roughly 2 tablespoon) cookie scoop, 2 inches apart. Gently press the cookies with your fingertips to flatten them slightly. The batter is quite sticky, so you may occasionally have to rinse the cookie scoop and your fingers during this process.

Put the cookies in the oven, and bake, until they are slightly cracked on the surface and golden, and rotating the pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through, 12 to 15 minutes.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018958-pumpkin-chocolate-chip-cookies

Pumpkin Cream Cheese muffins/ recipe share

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PUMPKIN CREAM CHEESE  MUFFINS

Makes 18 Muffins

INGREDIENTS:

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon pumpkin spice

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 (15 oz) can pumpkin (pure pumpkin puree)

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

2 large eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

 

8 oz cream cheese

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg yolk

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375°F. Place paper baking cups into muffin pan. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk flour, pumpkin spice, baking soda and salt until well combined. Set aside.

In large bowl, whisk together pumpkin, sugar and brown sugar.

Beat in eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in the flour mixture, until there are no lumps. Fill muffin tins 3/4 full.

In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add in sugar, egg yolk and vanilla extract and beat until well combined.

Top each muffin with about 1 tablespoon of cream cheese mixture and use a toothpick to swirl it into the batter. This will not look smooth, but it will bake up much prettier. (You can see exactly how I did this in the video above.)

Bake muffins for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Read more at https://thenovicechefblog.com/2015/11/pumpkin-cream-cheese-swirl-muffins/#btSpb5cArT8ms7eW.99

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I just wanted to touch base again.

I have read some amazing things from my fellow WordPress friends. I am greatly in awe of the hidden talent and the not so hidden talent of many of you. It takes courage for some of us to write things that are hurting us or personal in nature. I just commend the people who do that and can still continue to be so kind and talented.

I don’t know I just wanted to say/write that.

I hope every one of you out there in this big world experience love, acceptance, and joy, and most importantly peace.

Thanks for reading. contact me in email if you ever feel the need.

Michelle(MwsR) ❤

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Heartache, Send it Away/Poem by MwsR

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With matters of the heart

Here comes heartache that smears and leaves inside a huge mark

Unaware as people are

No one notices, really

They try to function day-to-day

 Little do they know

There is no warning sign

No flashing light.

Heartache creeps in

It replaces where trust once stayed

It is almost like it packs a bag,

It is not going anywhere soon.

Little by little the changes seem

To little really to place blame

As if the heart was made of steel

People excuse that deep down, how they feel.

They don’t understand it all

Or they would run away, even crawl.

No one likes heartache, no one needs it either

It is sadly though a fact of life

Somewhere along in your own life you have had it come

It stays for a while and then some

Leaving in its place things that barely function any more,

Things like trust, like pleasure, like joy.

Sometimes it sinks into the walls of the heart

It does not hesitate at all.

 However, heartache can be put in the back of your heart, sometimes

That place where you avoid going unless something triggers it

The avoidance does not extinguish it,

All it does is give a person a little while to feel the right way again

To enjoy something that they hadn’t been

In a sort of way, it allows them to pretend.

So if you see heartache coming for a visit,

Turn it away, don’t let it stay

Show it your heart and its courage,

Its fight.

Then, and only then will you eventually be alright.

Broke/Poem share by MwsR

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Too broke, not strong enough

Hanging on every action, every word

Missing things just awaiting the outcome

Letting the world outside pass her by

She let tears drown her pillows at night

Desperately immersed in all the broken she is

Wanting to change things but faster than it can happen

Ignorant to thank people forgive and forget

Letting herself stay broke till all the pieces somehow fit.

MwsR ❤

 

Song Share/Loggina and Messina ,Angry Eyes

Time, time and again I see you staring down at me
Now, then and again I wonder what it is that you see
With those angry eyes
Well, I bet you wish you could cut me down
With those angry eyes

You want to believe that I am not the same as you
And now I can’t conceive, oh lord, of what it is you’re trying to do
With those angry eyes
Well, I bet you wish you could cut me down
With those angry eyes
What a shot you could be if you could shoot at me
With those angry eyes

You and I must start to realize
Blindness binds us in a false disguise
Can you see me through those angry eyes?

You try to defend that you are not the one to blame
But I’m finding it hard, my friend, when I ‘m in the deadly aim
Of those angry eyes
Well, I bet you wish you could cut me down
With those angry eyes
What a shot you could be if you could shoot at me
With those angry eyes

Songwriters: JIM MESSINA,KENNETH CLARK LOGGINS
© Universal Music Publishing Group
For non-commercial use only.


How many times have we had someone with ANGRY EYES looking at us? This song is self explanatory. Take a listen though!


Angry can take hold of not only your mind but your soul. Let it Go! MwsR ❤

Low carb Omelette

Low carb Omelette

You can have this as breakfast for dinner when you don’t feel like cooking a huge dinner 😉

You will need:
4 Eggs
5 or 6 Mushrooms sliced
1/3 cup of freshly grated Cheddar cheese
1 Tbsp freshly grated Parmesan Cheese
a little bit of parsley- finely chopped (optional)
Salt and pepper

Sautee the mushroom in some olive oil and garlic
BEAT eggs, salt, and pepper in small bowl until blended.
HEAT butter in 7 to 10-inch nonstick omelet pan or skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
Pour the eggs mixture, let it cook for few min then add mushrooms, parsley, and cheddar cheese. Once the omelette is ready, place in the serving dish and add the parmesan cheese.

Serve with veggies of choice! Here it was served with asparagus sauteed in garlic and olive oil and olives!