Our Best Bites and now mine too!

I have been 'devouring' (pun intended) my new book purchase of 'Our Best Bites'. I found it at Costco and I think I paid around $15. The two recipes I have tried, Almond Poppy Seed Bread and Roasted Red Pepper Dip, I have loved. And the 'homemaker' in me, actually roasted my own red peppers because the instructions were on the page right before the actual dip recipe. I would love to start at page 1 and complete each recipe through the whole book. Yes, I did see Julie & Julia. The recipe on page one, actually page 4 with all of the introduction stuff...., is Dill Dip. Tonight we have an old peoples game night at a home in our ward, so I might make it and take it there. That way if it's not good I'll conveniently leave it there and if it's in a throw away bowl they won't even know who brought it! Brilliant! But then I also thought......if I just start from the front of the book - appetizers - I might get bored and would end up not doing the rest of the recipes so I have decided to add a desert to the 'party list' for tonight. I was thinking about starting from the LAST recipe of the dessert section which is Cinnamon Bun Caramel Corn - sounds yummy but not so great for older folks who might have teeth dysfunctions......yeah, you know what I mean. So the next recipe was Stovetop Kettle Corn....hmmm...nope and the one before that is Easy Pretzel Turtles. Wow, all nut/kernel infested recipes. I will have to start with the first dessert recipe which is boring....Sugar Cookies. Looking here at the recipe though it does have almond extract, which I have learned from my moms 'DELISH' cookies, is the winner ingredient for sugar cookies. BUT because sugar cookies is slightly boring I looked at the next recipe and it is Jam-Filled Cookies. It still uses the sugar cookie dough recipe, but has jam, cream cheese (a component in recipes I can rarely pass up) and then a melted chocolate chip drizzle. That's the one I'll make. I guess I better go then to get these recipes done. I'll try to remember to take pictures and post tomorrow but Katie and I are wedding dress shopping today so my mind might be elsewhere!!!! Oh, I also scanned the roasted red pepper page to download here but it is not letting me add them - a copier malfunction I guess.