cookies

I've tried a million recipes for cookies and they are all similar. This one uses dark brown sugar - I normally use light and so the different taste is really a yummy change.  It uses about a cup more flour than traditional dough which make them a puffier cookie. You can make them nice and big - golf ball size - but bake a couple more minutes longer. 

I do prefer semi-sweet chocolate chips in my cookies but boy are these good with the milk chocolate!! Enjoy :)

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Girl's Camp Continues...

I just had a couple of camp events this past week:

Rough Out with our 4th year girls and our YCL certification learning. I made invitations for our upcoming YCL day - "SPARK IT" and passed them out to the girls. It turned out cute with a little fun lollipop at the top.

 I made a few treats for the meeting - brownies, yummy cookies and cupcakes :)

 Anything to help entice the attendees to attend!!

 These were the Rough Out shirts I made the girls for their beach adventure last weekend - they were so super bright and cute on them! The print was done on my Silhouette in a glittery white iron-on.

A lot of green!

I found a great tip that truly works on Pinterest - canning lettuce!!

We eat a lot of salads in this house and lettuce only stays fresh after washing & cutting for a couple of days.

I found a site that showed me this idea & it has changed my salad prepping ways!

I cut & wash about 6-9 hearts of romaine lettuce & then let it air dry about 30 mins.

Pack it all into quart canning jars and suck all the air out with my FoodSaver.

My lettuce lasts TWO WHOLE WEEKS - seriously love this tip!

 You do need a jar attachment for this to work-

 Just put the rings on and pop them in the fridge! Yummy crisp lettuce ready to mix into a salad :)

I've only tried it with romaine - not sure how other lettuces would work