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Happy Halloween!

See, I have not been exaggerating about the eating dirt. She LOVEs it. 

She was an kitty this, her first, Halloween, and I don't this she is going to wear white again till her wedding day (if she into that stuff.) By the end of our Halloween playdate extravaganza at the park, she was an alley cat.

Bird Brains

While Harper was helping herself to some dirt and fall leaves in the front yard this afternoon, I figured I start tiding up the yard.  I began getting the leaves out of the flower beds when I came across this bird skeleton.  I suspect it was not Trixie's handy work, because the scull was in such pristine condition.  I think she would have eaten it, or at least, crunched it up a bit.  Or, left it on the porch for me.

Lately, I have been seeing a black and white version of Trixie in the hood.  That cat is like Trixie's shadow.  It could have been the work of the Shadow, as an offering to Trixie, who, turned it down, cuz she is trixie like that.

My mom's Shitzu, Kiki, is getting a glass eye, like Columbo.  Maybe we'll have Kiki come over and solve the case of the mystery dead bird and Trixie's Shadow after she recovers from her surgery.

Chocolate Sugar Cookies (light)

I've had the biggest chocolate craving lately.  It must be my belly can sense Halloween is coming.  I didn't want to buy candy early, though, for fear I'd eat it all before the tricker treaters came (like last year.)  So, I made this recipe for light chocolate sugar cookies.  I love love love them; crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, made with ingredients I already have in my house, super easy, low cal, cookie perfection.  They are not as rich as these chocolate sugar cookies I made this weekend, but still delightful.

 

Chocolate Icebox Cookies:

3/4 C flour

1/4 C unsweetened cocoa

1/4 t baking soda

1/4 t kosher salt

1/4 C butter, softened

2/3 C sugar

1 t vanilla extract

1 large egg white

 

• Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set it aside.  Beat butter in a mixer with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy.  Gradually add the sugar and beat until well blended.  Add vanilla and egg white, beat well.  Add flour mixture; stir until well blended.  Turn dough out onto plastic wrap and form into a disk.  Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.


• Preheat oven to 350.


• Roll the dough out with some flour till it is about 1/4 inch thick, or less.  Cut out cookies.  Place them 1 inch apart on a parchment lined cookie sheet (or silpat), and bake for 8-10 minutes.  


• 61 calories, 2 grams of fat

Ice Cream for Voters

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This is a video our buddy J.M. Finholt made staring Harper's Godfather, Dave Leamey, reminding you to vote.

If war and the meltdown of our economy were not enough to get you to the polls, Ben & Jerry's is giving you ice cream to vote!  I wish I had known, because I think Harper ate my early voting receipt...

Oh, and one last thing:  I live in Chicago, Il, which will be blue come November 4th.  So, why oh why, are there McCain adds here?  What a waste of money, right?  I don't see Obama ads here, because, Hello, this is Chicago, Il.  You don't need to preach to the choir.

Rice and Lentils

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This was a few weeks ago, but I just got around to posting it.  It was the first time I gave Harper homemade baby food.

It was a recipe I found in 'What to Expect The First Year' for rice and lentils.  I was so proud of myself, such a heath conscious, thrifty and well read mama.  Harper was not too impressed.  It was pretty nasty stuff, I have to say.  

Now, I just feed her little bits of what I'm having, and lots of mushy things like sweet potatoes, bananas, avocados, bread and squash.  She likes cheese, too.