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crazedveggie.com is up and running!

•December 10, 2008 • Leave a Comment


Pete set me up with my own domain (what a sweetie!) so the new space for the blog is:


I’m not paying the $10 to redirect traffic, so you all will have to come to the new site.

This will be my last official post on crazedveggie.wordpress.com

Tracy 🙂


Posted in Worthless nothingness

Not the gumdrop buttons!

•December 8, 2008 • Leave a Comment My family has a tradition of making a massive amount of cookies for Christmas each year… because all the other desserts and the huge dinner and everything else isn’t enough calories right?!  We do the same thing at weddings… crazy Western PA traditions.  Well this year my mom said she didn’t want to make a lot, which is fine by me since my diet has been out the door since Thanksgiving, well Halloween actually – but who’s counting?  Diets are for New Year’s resolutions!!  ANYWAY, Me thinking that I’m freaking Martha Stewart, I decided to make a few batches to send off to a few people (names omitted to protect the innocent).  I was going to go all out with the cookie cutters and frosting and candy buttons, etc etc.. but then I realized that’s when I usually screw everything up.. so I kept it simple.  I thought I’d post the recipes for all (the 3 whole people who actually read my blog) to enjoy!

Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies Makes approx. 2 ½ dozen

2/3 cup butter (softened)
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 ½ cup oats
1 ½ cup flour
1 6oz. package sweetened dry cranberries
2/3 cup white chocolate chips

* Beat butter and sugar together.
* Add egg.
* Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl.
* Add dry ingredients to wet mixture.
* Stir in cranberries and chocolate.
* Drop 1 teaspoon of cookie mixture onto ungreased baking sheets.
* Bake for 10-12 minutes or until brown.

Cinnamon Peanut Butter Chocolate Nut Cookies Makes approx. 4 dozen

¼ cup butter (softened)
1 3/4 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup chocolate chips (melted)

* Beat butter, sugar and egg together.
* Add milk and vanilla.
* Stir in nuts.
* Drop 1 teaspoon of cookie mixture onto greased baking sheet, 2 inches apart.
* Bake for 8 minutes or until brown.
* Let cool then drizzle chocolate on top.

Thumbprint Cookies (Bird’s Nests) Makes approx. 3 dozen

½ cup butter (softened)
1 egg – separated
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 cup finely chopped nuts
1 cup jam of choice

* Beat butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla.
* Sift dry ingredients together in separate bowl.
* Roll dough into 1 inch balls and dip in egg whites and roll into nuts.
* Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet.
* Bake for 5 mins.
* Remove from oven and press thumb into each cookie.
* Bake for 5-8 minutes longer.
* Cool and add jam into thumbprint.

Triple-Chocolate Cookies 
½ cup shortening
¾ cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup semisweet (plain) chopped chocolate (melted and cooled)
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/3 cup semisweet (plain) chocolate or white chocolate chips

* Beat shortening and butter on high for 30 seconds.
* Add sugar, brown sugar and baking soda.
* Beat in eggs, vanilla and melted chocolate.
* Beat in the cocoa powder and flour.
* Stir in the chocolate chips.
* Drop teaspoon of dough 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet
* Bake for 8-10 minutes or until tops look dry.
* Cool on baking sheet for 1 minute then let cool on rack.

Posted in Christmas 2008

Four Christmases… a lol movie!

•December 7, 2008 • Leave a Comment 

Posted in My three favorite addictions: TV~Movies~Books

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

•December 5, 2008 • 1 Comment

Starting with our Christmas tree in the living room. 

Here’s a few of my favs: 

•November 23, 2008 • Leave a Comment We went to see Twilight last night.  Twilight is the much anticipated movie based on the book of the same name by Stephanie Meyer.  I didn’t finish the book yet, only read the first chapter so far and that might have been my saving grace on seeing the movie.

I really liked it, minus a few let downs on the whole vampire front.  I also could have done without the 100 noisy teenage girls in the movie theater laughing at lame parts, giving a running commentary throughout the whole movie and just being, well, teenage girls.  But that was our own fault for going on opening weekend.  Let me just run through the good and the bad.



At the end of the day, it is a love story so I guess if you just focus on that and let some of the rest of the crazy stuff that happens in the movie go, you can enjoy it as I did.

It will be interested to watch the rest of the movies play out, but next one, I’m going on the 2nd or 3rd week of opening to avoid all the “Cullen Crew” t-shirts I seen last night.


Quantum of Solace – Like or dislike? I dunno.. I’m torn!

•November 17, 2008 • Leave a Comment Over the weekend, hubby and I went to see Quantum of Solace, the latest film in the James Bond series.  I can’t decide if I liked it or not.  It was pretty much a follow-up to Casino Royale, which I did like.  There were plenty of action scenes, but they all felt like they were incredibly close up and hard to make out exactly what was going on in them.  Also, I do think that Daniel Craig makes a good James, but I don’t think that James Bond should appear so dirty and nitty gritty all the time.

James should be debonair, ya know the whole “I just killed 18 baddies, but I’ve changed into my tux and I have no blood on me and I’m sitting at the bar now with my Bond Girl on my arm drinking a martini!”  Maybe that’s how us girls want to see the movies, and the guys are actually enjoying a dirtier version.  The story line wasn’t all that either, they have better spy plots in “Chuck” for heaven sake!  Like I said, I’m torn on it… it was worth seeing to get the closure on the last movie, but wasn’t what I would call the best movie ever.

Maybe next time we can have the sexy, cleaner, debonair Bond who doesn’t look like he bought his clothes at the local Walmart and maybe a well defined Bond Girl to boot!  Just a thought…

I will have to say, I’m digging the song though!


Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Series – Charlaine Harris
 From Dead to Worse - Latest Sookie Stackhouse novel

Sookie Stackhouse Box Set

I just finished the entire 8 book series of the Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris.  If you haven’t read my other post on the subject, this is the series that True Blood on HBO is based on.  I tried to read it as the show was going and not get too ahead of myself, but I couldn’t stop once I started and I became so wrapped up in the bizarre world of Sookie.

Vampires, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Fairies and other supernatural creatures surrounding a smalltown girl with a telepathic talent.  Loved it!  I’m only sad that there aren’t more left to read.  Though reading the authors’ posts, I don’t think she is finished with the series yet – so we can only hope to see more in the future.

I will say that watching True Blood was what had got me to start reading the books, but the show is only losely based on the characters and isn’t exactly the same.  Books are much better imo.  Some of the characters in the show aren’t exactly the characters in the books and vice versa.  But now that I’ve read the entire series, it’ll be interesting to see where the show goes.. but I can’t help but feel a little let down by how some of the show is written.  I’m hoping I can try to keep them separate and not feel too duped by the differences.

The same author has written some short stories in collaboration with other authors, so might have to check those out since I seemed to have found a new genre that is making a huge impact on my reading preferences.  Some of the short stories also have the same characters as the series and dives further into some of their pasts.  She also has written other series but right now I don’t know if I can move past Sookie.  However, I do need new reading material because right now it’s up there as my favorite pasttime – and let’s be honest, it’s not like I have anything else to do right now!  😀





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