Oatmeal Coconut Cookies

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Anne (with an 'e') is a skinny orphan girl with fiery red hair & loads of imagination who arrives at Green Gables from an orphanage to be adopted by middle aged siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Though they were expecting a boy, they decide to keep her with some reservations and soon fell in love with her quirkiness.

Whats your name? - if you ask Anne; She would reply - "Will you please call me Cordelia? please as the name sounds so romantic". and thats how our Anne is.

L. M. Montgomery is the author of this month's book 'Anne of Green Gables' who is known for a writing style involving lovely prosy descriptions especially about the beauty of nature at Green Gabless and Anne's daydreams. Her characters, are so unique in themselves and lovable (Anne, Marilla, Mathew, Mr. & Mrs. Allan, Miss Stacy, Diana, Mrs.Lynde etc) that one instantly fall in love with them.

Anne is very fond of her little 'tea parties' and am sure she would love to have the cookies I made for her and for her friends. :)

Oatmeal Coconut Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups All purpose flour
1 cup (unflavored) Oats
1.5 cups Sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Butter, at room temperature
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 cup coconut flakes

Method:

Step 1: Preheat oven for 375 F

Step 2: Combine the dry ingredients first - flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Step 3: In a separate bowl, mix in butter with sugar till creamy texture. Blend in eggs and vanilla extract. Beat in flour mixture with oats and coconut flakes.

Step 4: Drop some mixture on a greased baking sheet and slightly flatten them. Bake to 8-10 mins. Cool them on wire racks and Store in a tight container.

For the month of January, we are reading Roald Dahl's 'Charlie & The Chocolate Factory'. If you would like to come join us, please leave a comment here or drop me an email.

Do check what others made for Anne:

Simran: A Cake for Anne

Happy Holidays.

Cheers,
Siri

Another fresh year is here..2009!!

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A new year is fast approaching. and this is what I said last year remember?

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Another fresh year is here..
Another year to live..

To banish worry, doubt and fear..
To love, laugh and give.
This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

~ Original quote by William Arthur Ward

...and now its time for me to stop and look back about what 2008 has given me & my blog:

1. It gave innumerable number of good friends, whom I never met them in person, but they made my (every) day with their warm & appreciative comments.

2. Experimenting with new dishes made me a good cook. Oh definitely! I knew nothing about the nuances of flavors per say, before I started this blog way back in Aug 2007 and now
I can proudly say that - 'I make people jealous with my cooking skills'.. (Ok, that's a bit too much of boasting, but hey! its true..:) )

3. I baked my first ever bread this year and surpirsed everybody, including me myself. Though I am still taking baby steps in this area - I want to bake more for sure!

4. I hosted (still ongoing), seven events in this year:

AWED: Middle Eastern
Frozen 'Yogurt'
MBP: Say Cheese
WHB: 159
Herb Mania: Coriander
RCI: Awadhi Cuisine (ongoing)
AFAM: Apricot (ongoing)

5. I experimented with many new ingredients & flavors and a special mention goes to 'Quinoa' and one simple recipe which is quite a popular dish among my friends & family - 'Quinoa Vegetable Pancakes'..:)

Phew!..those were some of my sweet memories that I wanted to share with you all..

Now, its time for my 'Top 5 Recipes' of 2008:

1. Sandwich Bread

2. Egg Puffs

3. Bell pepper stuffed with Black eye bean filling

4. Sun dried Tomato Couscous

5. Hashbrown Melt


Siri's 'Top Resolutions' of 2009:

1. To bake a cake.

2. To cook loads of new dishes with green leafy vegetables.

3. To blog regularly, in a timely manner.

4. To exercise atleast twice a week, to stay fit.

5. To keep up my reading skills. [ Do you have any recommendations in particular - 'Books that one shouldn't miss!', I would love to know from you guys. :) ]

This is not my last post this year, I have couple of more to come.. so until then cya and Happy Holidays folks..:)

Psst..Psst..Check out my totally re-vamped: Events & Roundup page!!

Off this post goes to Srivalli's 'Best of 2008' event.

Cheers,
Siri

The Little Round Bun...

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I love stories, esp the short ones, which have a subtle moral hidden in them. Thats the reason, I posted some of them previously here on my blog, and it has been a which I did so.

Here is one such Russian folk lore, which I loved ...and now sharing with you all.

"Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman who were very poor and had nothing at all to their name. And they kept getting poorer and poorer till there was nothing left to eat in the house, not even bread. Said the old man:

"Do bake us a bun, old woman! If you scrape out the flour-box and sweep out the bin, you'll have enough flour."

So the old woman scraped out the flour-box and swept out the bin, she made some dough and she shaped a little round bun out of it. She then lit the oven, baked the bun and put it on the window sill to cool. But the bun jumped out of the window and onto the bench outside, and from the bench onto the ground, and away it rolled along the road!

On and on it rolled, and it met a Rabbit coming toward it.

"I'm going to eat you up, Little Round Bun!" called the Rabbit.

"Don't do that, Fleet-Feet, let me sing you a song instead," said Little Round Bun.

"All right, let's hear it!"

"Here it is!

"I was scraped from the flour-box
And swept from the bin
And baked in the oven
And cooled on the sill
I ran away from Grandpa,
I ran away from Grandma,
And I'll run away from you, this minute I will!"

Off it rolled and away from the rabbit. By and by it met a Wolf coming toward it.

"I'm going to eat you up, Little Round Bun!" called the Wolf.

"Don't do that, Brother Wolf, let me sing you a song instead."

"All right, let's hear it!"

"I was scraped from the flour-box
And swept from the bin
And baked in the oven
And cooled on the sill
I ran away from Grandpa,
I ran away from Grandma,
And I'll run away from you, this minute I will!"

And away it rolled.

By and by it met a Bear coming toward it.

"I'm going to eat you up, Little Round Bun!" called the Bear.

"Don't do that, Brother Bear, I'll sing you a song instead!"

"All right, let's hear it!"

Out came the song well rehearsed by now and the little round bun was having fun adding extravagant flairs here and there. The song was over and away it rolled, far away from the bear!

By and by it met a Fox coming toward it.

"I'm going to eat you up, Little Round Bun!" called the Fox.

"Don't do that, Sister fox, I'll sing you a song instead."

"All right, let's hear it!"

"I was scraped from the flour-box
And swept from the bin
And baked in the oven
And cooled on the sill
I ran away from Grandpa,
I ran away from Grandma,
And I'll run away from you, this minute I will!"

"That was the most beautiful song I’ve heard in a long time. Sing some more, please, don't stop! You have the most melodious voice in the whole world" the Fox said. "Hop onto my tongue, so I can hear you better."
Little Round Bun jumped onto the Fox's tongue and began to sing:

"I was scraped from the flour-box
And swept from the bin-"

But before it could go on, the Fox opened her mouth and - snap! -she gobbled it up. That was the end of the little round bun.

Moral of the story: First flattery makes you deaf and then you are dead

Source: Bolokids