Friday, January 11, 2013

Good Year Jar


HOMEMADE FORTUNE COOKIES


HOMEMADE FORTUNE COOKIES

INGREDIENTS
1 egg white
¼ cup sugar
2 tsp butter
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp almond extract
1/3 cup flour
2 tsp water
Recipe makes approximately 20 cookies.
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a cookie sheet with cooking spray.
Combine egg white and sugar and beat until frothy. Add melted butter, vanilla extract, almond extract, water, and flour and stir (it should be slightly looser than pancake batter). Pour approximately ¾ of a tablespoon of batter in four places on cookie sheet.
Bake in the oven for five to seven minutes, until edges turn just a little brown. Remove from oven and flip each cooked circle face down on a paper towel.
Working quickly (before they cook and harden), place a fortune in the middle of the circle and fold each circle in half, leaving a pocket of air inside. Then push the middle of the bottom part upwards to create the signature fortune cookie shape. Place the cookies in a cupcake tin to hold each one in place until they harden.
— com Kheir-El Din Sammakieh e Lauren Saar.



THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR