My mother's chili was so hot...

My mother's chili was so hot...

The natives used to toss her chili in when they wanted the volcano to erupt...

Dragons called our house the 'gas station' ....

The pastor used her chili to illustrate the flames of Hell...

You could start a fire with 2 beans and some wet wood...

We called it chili con carnage...

It would strip paint at 50 paces...

We had to post bio-hazard warning signs...

No need for tear gas, just toss the chili !

It's where they got the idea for 'Burning Man'...

......Happy Valentine's Day!........
These are folded just like snowflakes out of pale pink paper. Some folded as 6 points, some as 8 points.

Melissa's No-Fail Sugar Cookies Recipe

Melissa's No-Fail Sugar Cookies Recipe
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together.
Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes
I roll the fresh dough between 2 sheets of parchment to the thickness wanted (put it right on the cookie sheet), pop in the fridge for a little; lift off the top sheet and cut the cookies removing most of the excess around them; into the freezer it goes until they're hard; take it out, remove any remaining extra, put them the proper distance from each other and right into the oven they go...
I could not believe how much easier to handle and how much BETTER looking they are when I do this.
I USE THIS RECIPE for peanut butter cut-outs. Replace roughly 1/2 cup peanut butter (be sure to add a pinch of extra salt ) it makes the peanut flavor 'pop'.