Mmmmmmm, I enjoy food

This last week I cooked a side dish and some cookies and they turned out pretty well.  I made shoepeg corn casserole and what i'm gonna call Choco-Cherry Goodness.  The casserole is a recipe I got from my aunt Allison and the Choco-Cherry Goodness is a slightly tweaked version of the Oh So Good Choc Cherry Cookie recipe Christina gave me.   Below are some pics and the recipes if anyone wants to try them.

Shoepeg Corn Casserole
3 cans Shoepeg Corn (drained)
small block of cream cheese
small onion (diced)
2 Tb butter
1/2 c milk
1 bag shredded velveeta cheese

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Saute onions in butter, add cream cheese and milk when the onions are cooked then lower temp on stove.
pour drained corn into 9x12 in pan and add cream cheese sauce when it starts to bubble.

cover with cheese.
bake until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbling up sides.

i couldn't find velveeta cheese so i used white cheddar and sharp cheddar.






The Choco-Cherry Goodness cookies

1 pouch Betty Crocker double chocolate chunk cookie mix
1/4 c veg oil
2 Tbs water
1 egg
1/4 c finely diced almonds
lots and lots of maraschino cherries
1 cup choc chips
1/4 c whipping cream

mix pouch of cookie mix, oil, egg, water, and almonds.  quarter a dozen or so cherries and add to the batter.  While they are intended as cookies but i hate washing pans so I put them in mini-muffin cups.  About a teaspoon or so of batter per cup and then cut in half a bunch of cherries.  press the cherry halves onto the top of the batter.

Bake 8-10 minutes.
While they are baking pour whipping cream into cup with choc chips.  microwave for 20 seconds, stir and microwave another 20 seconds.

When cookies are done pipe out some chocolate onto the top.  

And in case yall are wondering what my kitchen looks like, here are some pics.

Anticlimactic

Anticlimactic - A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise

Well, I finally paid off all of my student loans.  Can't say I feel any different but I suppose when I get my next paycheck and don't immediately give most of it to a bank I'll feel a little different.