November 16th: Comfort/Childhood Favorite

Do you have a favorite dish whose smell or taste rushes back memories of growing up or sitting together as a family in the dining room? Or at the end of a hard day, this dish seems to melt all your cares away? This month we'll bring back fun childhood memories of favorite dishes your mom or dad use to make! Join us this month at Kristen's house as we take a walk down memory lane! It will be held on Wednesday November 16th at 7:30pm. Directions will be e-mailed out a few days before. Hope you can make it!

Main Dish: Kristen
Side Dish: Missy
Side Dish:Heather
Salad:
Salad:
Dessert:
Dessert: Jeri (chocolate chip cookies)
Drink:

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
splash milk (enough to incorporate all the flour into the butter)
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup chopped dark chocolate or semi-sweet chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream the butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and a splash of milk. Mix baking powder and salt into flour and add the dry ingredients to the wet by thirds. You might need to add a little more milk to get all the flour in (I usually taste to make sure the dough is not too sweet). Dough will be very thick. Add in chocolate chips, stir just to combine. Drop in tablespoon-sized balls (or even slightly smaller) 1” apart on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.

Hide half of the dough so you’ll have cookies for later.