Italian butter cookies are delicious, iced with dark chocolate and decorated with pistachio granules, candied cherries, jam and dried coconut. These Italian butter cookies are made using the classic ‘whipped shortbread’ technique. The butter is whipped until creamy and fluffy and then combined with the other ingredients. This type of shortcrust pastry makes the biscuits crumbly and they melt in your mouth with every bite! These biscuits are really delicious and will appeal to the whole family, and in a box they make a lovely gift idea. They can also be made with lactose-free butter or margarine in the same quantities as classic butter for those who are lactose intolerant.
RECIPE
INGREDIENTS :
1 ½cups all-purpose flour
½cup cornstarch
¾cup sugar
Pinch salt
2sticks chilled unsalted butter, cut into bits
1teaspoon vanilla extract
1egg
½cup milk, approximately
Ingredients For Decorations:
Dark Chocolate, Pistachios, Sprinkles, Candied CHerries, and Rasberry Jam
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, cornstarch, sugar and salt in a food processor, and pulse once or twice. Add butter, and pulse 10 or 20 times, until butter and flour are well combined. Add vanilla and egg and pulse 3 or 4 times.
Add about half the milk and pulse 2 or 3 times. Add the remaining milk a little at a time, pulsing once or twice after each addition, until the dough holds together in a sticky mass.
Remove the dough from the machine to one or more bowls. Make cookies as described in Step 3, or make any of the variations below.
To make cookies, drop rounded teaspoons of dough (you can make the cookies larger or smaller, if you like) onto a nonstick baking sheet, a sheet lined with parchment paper or a lightly buttered sheet.
If you want flat cookies, press the balls down a bit with your fingers or the back of a spatula or wooden spoon.
Bake 11 minutes, or until the cookies are done as you like them. Cool on a rack, then store, if necessary, in a covered container.
Assorted Butter Cookies
Make These Tasty Cookies
Pipe the dough into about 1/2-inch-wide, 1 3/4-to-2-inch-long segments, spaced about 1 inch apart, on your baking sheets. (Pictured Below)
Bake the cookies for 11 to 13 minutes, or until they are golden at the edges.
Melt Daek Chocolate and Dip one end of Finsihed Cookie into Chocolate
You can then dip the Chocolate aprt of the Cookie into chopped PISTACHIO NUTS
The SEXIEST SONG EVER MADE !!! YES The SEXIEST SONG EVER
Come On and Go With Me
by TEDDY PENDERGRASS
HOW to GET LAID in 3 EASY STEPS !!!
1) If you Meet a Girl (Woman), you need to get her back to your House.
Give a glass of Champagne or Wine (or a Cocktail)
2) Put on Teddy Pedergrass muisc.
3) After Teddy is playing for a few minutes, take the lady inti your arms and
start to dance.
a) Give her a little Kiss on her neck. If she seems to like it, and doesn't resist,
give her a few more Kisses on the neck.
b) Nibble on her earlobes. Start ro careess her, leading to her her breast. Then,
you know where.
c) One thing will lead to another, and in no time, you should be Making Love
COME ON OVER with ME
"Come on Over to My House"
Without a doubt this is easly one of the Sexiest Songs ever recorded in the
history of recording music. Tedd Pendergrass sing Cone on Over to My Place.
Damn, this song is Sexy as Hell. If you get a women back to your house, and you put on some TP,
and this album titled "Teddy" you are almost garaunteed, "you know what?" This song, is as Sexy
as it gets. The song is on Teddy's third album TEDDY, along with other sext songs like :
Trun Off The Liughts (Damn Sexy) and get this title "Do Me" Can you get any more explicit Teddy?
I Love it brother.
So, guys if you don't own this album. What are you waiting for. Teddy Pendergrass along with that other Sexy Singer, the lat great Barry White, are the two greatest Wing Men of all the time. Put them on and let one thing lead to another. Do you know what I Mean?
After Burgers and Pizza, these Buffalo Chicken Wings may very well be America’s 3rd most popular dish. And guess what? They’re not just American, they’re Italian American Teressa Bellissimo one night at her families Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York. Legend has it that Teressa’s son Dom was hanging out at the bar one night with his buddy’s. The guys were hungry so Mamma Bellissimo whipped up a little snack for the boys. Teressa fried up some wings, made a little hot sauce and coated the wings with them. And served them to the boys. They went nuts they loved them. They started serving them as a free at the bar for the bar customers. It was just a matter of weeks before all of Buffalo found out about these tasty wings. They became famous almost over night, whereby the Bellissimo’s stopped serving them for free at the bar and put them on the menu. The Bellissimo’s served Italian Food at their Anchor Bar, and the Italian Food was quite special. However the Bellisimo’s tasty Chicken Wings quickly out sold all the regular Italian Specialty Dishes and the Bellissimo’s Wings became the number 1 best seller on the menu. Not only that, but Teressa’s Italian-American created Chicken
Wings became uber famous all over America and subsequently all over the World. That’s Italian, “Italian-American.”
RECIPE :
Ingredients:
36 chicken wing pieces
(one wing makes 2 pieces - the "flat" and drum seperated
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tablespoons white vinegar
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
6 tablespoons Frank’s Hot Sauce (or other)
6 tablespoons unsalted Butter or Margarine
Celery Sticks
1 bottle of Blue Cheese Dressing
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Cut whole wings into two pieces at the joint.
In a bowl toss the wings with the oil, and salt. Place chicken wings into a large plastic shopping bag, and add the flour. Shake to coat evenly.
Remove wings from the bag, shaking off excess flour, and spread out evenly on oiled foil-lined baking pan(s). Do not crowd. Bake for about 20 minutes, turn the wings over, and cook another 20 minutes, or until the wings are cooked through and browned.
While the Wings are baking, mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a pan, and cook over low heat for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
After the Wings are cooked, remove from oven.
Place wings in a large bowl and pour sauce over wings to coat. Mix thoroughly.
Serve with Blue Cheese Dressing and fresh Celery Spears.
Enjoy your Wings and Enjoy the Game, ! "It's SUPER BOWL SUNDAY" !
Throwing a SUPER BOWL PARTY this year? Doing the cooking? Need some Great Recipes?
There are two great Books geared to help you out.
The BADASS COOKBOOK and GOT ANY KAHLUA?
The Collected Recipes of The Dude, aka The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK are two books that are sure to help. There are Crowd Pleasing Recipes that are Easy to Make and oh so Tasty !!!
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of Tampa Bay, Florida. Brady, known as the Goat, which for those who might not know
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Over time, the trophy-shine around Tom Brady began to get in the eyes and obscure the most essential fact about his NFL career: It was entirely self-made, manufactured. “Poor build. … Gets knocked down easily,” a draft scout wrote about him so infamously all those years ago. What if Brady had accepted it as the final judgment, surrendered to the opinion? Don’t ever let the seven Super Bowls and all the records gloss over that most vital lesson: What people say about you is always wrong, if you make it so.
Brady proved that any kid with perfectly ordinary athletic prospects, the middle-of-the-packer who doesn’t come with some preloaded or far-fetched anatomical gift, can construct greatness. What made him great was an inner curiosity, an urge to fill in his blanks and see what might happen with enough study and sweat. Here’s the real verdict on him as he retires at 44: If you study and sweat hard enough for long enough, you can win everything in sight and leave so many unattainable records etched into the books that they might as well be written in granite"
Brady’s 2000 NFL draft evaluation will go down in history as one of those infamous misjudgments on par with a talent scout’s assessment of Fred Astaire’s screen test: “Can’t act; slightly bald; can dance a little.” It’s worth reciting the assessment once more for posterity and the pure fun of it. “Skinny. Lacks great physical stature and arm strength,” the scout wrote. “Lacks mobility and the ability to avoid the rush. Lacks a really strong arm. Can’t drive the ball down the field. Does not throw a really tight spiral. System-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad-lib.” Was it really so inaccurate? No, it wasn’t. It was merely the truth — but the incomplete truth.
The complete truth was that at every single stage of his career, he labored to overcome major physical deficits, as anyone who worked with him over the years tried to tell you. As Tom Moore, legendary offensive consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said before last year’s Super Bowl triumph, “He wanted to have greatness, and he worked hard to get it; it didn’t just fall out of the trees.”
At Junipero Serra High, he started out as a scrub on a team that didn’t win a game.
“When I showed up as a freshman in high school, I didn’t know how to put pads in my pants,” he once said. Brady spent four years at Michigan, fighting his way off the bench, and even as a senior had to split time with a sophomore, Drew Henson, whom coaches saw as more talented. He was prone to sulk about it, until, in the single most important pivot in his career, he saw a sports psychologist named Greg Harden who made a man out of him by telling him he was responsible for his own performance in the world. “It’s really a shift in the mind,” Brady told filmmaker Gotham Chopra in the documentary “Man in the Arena.” “You go from being a victim to being empowered by the fact that you went through something difficult and you learned from it.”
His physical performance at the annual NFL combine was unremarkable: He ran a slogging time of 5.28 seconds in the 40-yard dash. Again, nobody seemed to see much in him. During the draft, he sat for hours as team after team passed on him, and the insult and injury of it could still make his eyes well up years later. “I just remember thinking, whichever team picked me, I was going to make the other 31 regret it,” he once said on his TB12 Sports website.
The piece that everyone missed about him was how much he loved the way the game chiseled him, how intriguing he found its demands. “The competition was fierce and deep, JUST HOW WE LIKE IT,” he wrote in the most telling part of his farewell announcement. Brady loved proving he could master an NFL playbook, which was so thick “you would think we were building rockets,” he once said. He loved solving the schematics and diagrams, which were “part science, part math, part geometry.” He loved the all-consuming test in which mental acuity could trump physical deficiency. “You’re at your most vulnerable,” he told Chopra.
“You’re fully exposed. There’s no hiding. There’s this armor you take out on the field, but that’s really you on the field. Those are your real emotions.”
Even at his peak and his prime — actually was there ever anything less than a prime? — he was not a great improviser, could not throw well on the move with those slow feet. He had to know where he was going with the ball and get it away quick in order to look so good. He never hid from the fact; he just refined his throwing motion and scorched his eyes staring at film so he could outsmart the people boring down on him.
“Not everybody is great at everything,” he said at an Adobe corporate summit in 2020. “There’s things I don’t do very well. … I recognize that I’m a person who doesn’t run around and try to ad-lib and make things happen after the ball is in my hand. So much of my thinking happens before I ever touch the ball. So by the time I do touch the ball, I’m on the clock, and I know that my clock has to move very quickly in order to anticipate. … I don’t like guesswork. I don’t like the idea of just trying to figure things out on the go.”
As he aged, it became just one more problem to solve, one more interesting test, and a way to disprove all the doubters about who he was. Stereotypes of limp-armed quarterbacks began to color perceptions of his play, became more persuasive to some people than his actual performance, and led to his exit from New England and a second wind with Tampa Bay. “All right, well, I’ll just go show ’em wrong again. They didn’t learn their lesson last year obviously, or the year before that, or the year before that.” With sheer determination, he established that a man in his 40s didn’t have to suffer arm slackness and that with pure application he could learn any system. Above all, he showed the value of ignoring what others say about you.
Brady's litany of performances is susceptible to mythologizing, and the glossy magazine covers only enhanced the impression that he had some kind of mysterious ease. The highlight films with voice-over narration make his play seem cinematic and the victories inevitable. But the reality was that game day was just one small part of his workweek and a Super Bowl in February was just one small part of his year-round labor. “It’s what he does in April and May and June,” Chopra said. “It’s film work and obsessing over his hip movements and watching game tape in the middle of June at 11 o’clock at night.”
That’s what made him finally call it a career — not his age but the “all-in” effort required. He said in his announcement, “I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.” Note the choice inherent in that statement. He didn’t say he couldn’t do it anymore, merely that he wouldn’t. It was just one more act of self-determination.
In retirement, Brady will finally begin to show his years and eventually become just another un-suave, plodding person, a bad golfer with a steadily thickening middle, who diminishes like the rest of us. As he takes that long, slow walk back toward averageness, remember this about him: Had Brady listened to conventional wisdom, had he accepted the judgments of others about who and what he was, had he retired before the age of 40 as most quarterbacks are expected to, we would have missed this most crucial fact about him. His greatness was not in the power of his arm but in the power of his intention to decide for himself who he wanted to be.