Living on the frontlines

I have been so busy working on the move, that I haven't updated this for a bit. We have three new HPSers on the patient registry. So far this year, most of our new people are coming from outside the US - an interesting trend. This puts us at 91 to go for this year's Hundred People Search (H.P.S.). 

I never seem to get these to come out just like mom’s cookies, and I don’t know why. But, again, to be sure I don’t lose the recipe, I wanted to get it down so am posting it on the blog. Ingredients 1 and ½ cup confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar) 1 cup butter 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp almond flavoring 2 and ½ cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp cream of tartar Mix sugar and butter. Add eggs and flavorings and mix well. Measure the flour by sifting or using the dip method. Stir in dry ingredients. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours. Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Scoop out a handful of dough and roll it out on a lightly floured surface. Cut with cookie cutters and then bake 7 to 8 minutes or until light brown.

I got this recipe from my mother. I am posting it because I have a few recipes I really like, but are on scraps of paper. I want to be sure I don't lose it in the move, so here it is! Grin!  Ingredients 1 small can of mushrooms 4 cups of chicken broth 2 large skinned chicken breasts 2 cans Italian-style tomatoes cut up 1 block or 8 ounces of cream cheese 1 bag frozen cheese tortellini 1 small bag of spinach Put all the ingredients, except the tortellini and the spinach in a crock pot on low and cook until the chicken is cooked through and breaks apart easily with a spoon. Add the tortellini and spinach and cook a half hour more. It will seem like too much spinach, but the spinach cooks down quite a lot. Serve.

I have an update on the Hundred People Search! I was so busy last week I didn't get to post it. We added two new HPSers to the patient registry. This puts us at 95 to go on the Hundred People Search or H.P.S. Grin! We are still going through the records from the Puerto Rico conference. It has been a hard job for Valarie because some of the handwriting is hard to read. Lesson learned from next time - we want to have a tablet of some kind for people to sign in. I have SO MUCH to blog about, both Network news as my own news, but doing things for my move is top on my list just now. Hope to add more later.