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Friday, January 27, 2012

Rolo Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. Not for Wussies!

1 ½ cups butter; softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 eggs
3 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cups dark (or semi but I prefer dark) chocolate chips
30 Rolos; frozen at least 2 hours

DIRECTIONS:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs with mixer on Mix in flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in chocolate chips and pecans.
2. Measure dough using a medium cookie scoop (about 1.5 tablespoons). Roll into a ball and then flatten in the palm of your hands.
3. Place a frozen Rolo in the centers of the flattened dough balls and form dough back into a ball around the Rolo.
4. Place Rolo stuffed dough balls into the freezer for 30 minutes before baking.
5. On cookie sheet lined with parchment paperplace dough balls 2 inches apart.
6. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 2 minutes and remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

More Funny Flathead Beacon Police Reports! #5

More funny (yes, these are real) police reports from Flathead Valley Montana:

12/25/2011

11:54 p.m. A woman called from Whitefish Stage to report that while her jammie-wearing, intoxicated boyfriend was taking the dog for a walk, the neighbors shot at him with a pellet gun. The neighbors, described as an elderly man and a “manly” looking woman, claimed they shot an air gun into the air in an attempt to get the dog to stop barking at deer.


12/26/2011


11:11 p.m. A woman on First Avenue West thought that people at the mall were spying on her with binoculars. 


12/27/2011


10:35 a.m. A man on Third Avenue East reported finding a gloomy, sad poem on his door.


6:39 p.m. Someone called from a Kalispell gas station to report that kids were in the store a "hootin' and a hollerin'," making the cashier nervous. The cashier reported that she was not nervous.

7:30 p.m. A woman on Fifth Avenue West reported that a drunken man was bumbling around in her back yard. 


12/28/2011


3:39 p.m. A woman on Highway 209 near Bigfork reported seeing a man wearing a Jason mask scurry across the road. She claimed that he pointed and stared at her for a moment then disappeared into a Christmas tree. She last saw him walking with a limp toward Ferndale.

8:10 p.m. A man called in to talk about some bad vibes he was getting from two guys in a gas station on Highway 93 South.

8:18 p.m. A man on Sixth Avenue East reported that a drunken man was in his neighbor's backyard howling "like a goofball." The drunk and his bicycle were taken home.


12/29/2011


7:54 a.m. Three baby cows and three adult cows wandered into a Douglas Drive resident’s front yard for a snack. They were taken home.


3:17 p.m. Someone saw a man wearing a green sleeping bag run down Woodland Avenue.