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These are my daughter’s favorite cookies. What feels better than tucking your child’s favorite homemade cookie into their lunch box?

Ingredients for Scrumptious Snickerdoodles

• 1 cup butter - softened
• 2 2/3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tbsp. cinnamon

Baking Instructions

1. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar in a mixing bowl and whisk it with a balloon whisk. Set aside.
2. Add the butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar to the bowl of a standing mixer with the paddle attachment and cream it until it is light and fluffy.

   Reserve 1/4 cup sugar for later step.

3. Add the eggs to the mixer and continue to mix until all is combined.
4. Slowly add the dry ingredients that you combined earlier to the mixer on a lower speed so it doesn’t fly all over your kitchen.
5. Combine remaining 1/4 cup sugar with cinnamon in a small mixing bowl.
6. Take one spoonful of dough at a time and make a ball by rolling it in the palms of your clean hands.

   Don’t overhandle the dough, do just enough to make a rolled ball.

7. Roll each ball in the cinnamon sugar and place on a baking sheet.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15-18 minutes.

Delicious!

How is it possible that we have begun the school year behind the eight ball? I thought that with my daughter beginning kindergarten and my stepson beginning his senior year of high school I would have plenty of time. Over these first three weeks of school, this has not been the case. So many pressing commitments at the school, a new routine to carve out and get used to – one week turns to two turns to three and I realize that even I have let family dinner slide. With things calming down and our family routine taking shape, I am gladly back in the kitchen.

This week’s featured family dinner is one of my daughter’s favorites. Don’t miss the opportunity to quickly whip up this simple and classic meal you will find yourself coming back to again and again.

Each week, in addition to the weekly family dinner, I will include a dessert or sweet. This week I’m starting with another of my daughter’s favorites. I love having something sweetly homemade sitting out on the counter through the week so my stepson can grab a snack. And tucking something sweetly homemade into my daughter’s lunch box – well that is one of the motherly joys I’ve looked forward to for years.

Grilled Flank Steak

Twice Baked Potatoes

Southern Green Beans

Snickerdoodles

Off to Central Market we go to get the groceries. You will always find that my grocery list is listed in the same order as Central Market’s set up.

Make sure you have:

PRODUCE

• Russet potatoes – one per family member
• Chives
• A few handfuls of fresh green beans
• A yellow onion

MEATS

• A good quality flank steak
• Bacon

BAKING GOODS

• Flour
• Baking powder
• Baking soda
• Sugar

HERBS AND SPICES

• Kosher salt
• Ground pepper
• Regular salt
• Cinnamon
• Cream of tartar

OILS AND VINEGARS

• Olive oil

DAIRY

• Grated cheddar cheese
• Sour cream
• Half and half
• Butter
• Eggs

Also, make sure you have a grill pan and a large covered sauté pan.

The recipes will be listed soon.