What Shall We Bake Today?

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The next cookie in the December cookie parade is Hungarian Kiffles!

Ingredients

2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling

1/2 teaspoon salt

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 cup (1/2 lb) unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

I cup flour

2 to 2-1/2 cups cake and pastry filling, about two 12-ounce cans

Instructions 

Prepare the Dough:

(I prefer to use my hands to mix cookie dough, but you can use a mixer to cream the butter and cream cheese.)  Combine the butter and cream cheese: add the four and the salt to make a dough.

Roll and Cut the Dough:

Preheat the oven to 350°F and position a rack in the center of the oven. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Mix 1 cup sugar with 1 cup flour.  Use this mixture to flour your table or board.  Roll out the dough and cut into squares.  How large you make the squares will determine how many kiffles you will be able to make. I make mine about 1 ½ -2 inch squares.

Fill and Seal the Kiffles:

Spoon the fruit filling into a small freezer bag, snip off a tiny bottom corner and squeeze the filling onto the squares. Fold one corner of the square to the center of the kiffle. Wrap the opposite corner over that and roll slightly to the back.  Place on the baking tray. (I typically use apricot, lekvar or prune butter, and sweetened chopped walnuts for my fillings.)

Bake the Kiffles:

Arrange the kiffles 1 inch apart on the parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake until barely golden, 12 to 14 minutes.

Enjoy!

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18 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

    1. It’s in the 20s here this morning – we’ve had several days in the 20s now – early for hard freezes in N FL and S GA. That usually happens in the months after Christmas…Jan-Feb-Mar!

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  3. “Full interview of Melania Trump on Fox & Friends this morning” (yesterday)

    https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1865023981905928447

    https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/12/06/flotus-return-melania-shares-thoughts-on-trump-20-and-those-new-dance-moves-n2182904

    “STEVE DOOCY: As you look right there, how do you describe your husband’s dance moves?

    MELANIA TRUMP: Oh, this is [a] very special and unique dance. (laughter) And I think a lot of people are copying it and everybody have fun with it.

    BRIAN KILMEADE: Is this how you dance?

    MELANIA TRUMP: No. I don’t dance that way.

    STEVE DOOCY: Which part of the Trump Dance — did you give him any tips, like, in the beginning —

    MELANIA TRUMP: No.

    STEVE DOOCY: — it was low, and then it was up high, and now there’s a golf swing…

    MELANIA TRUMP: Nope. He’s coming all on his own.

    STEVE DOOCY: Have you ever done the Trump Dance? You are Mrs. Trump.

    MELANIA TRUMP: I did not.

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  4. EXCERPT: “President Trump just nominated Gail Slater, an economic policy adviser to Sen. and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, to serve as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. This was a brilliant move and represents President Trump’s opening strike against Big Tech monopolists in his second term — crucial unfinished business from his first term.

    Slater, a former FTC enforcement attorney for many years, previously worked for President Trump during his first term as a tech policy adviser. She is a leading expert in antitrust law, particularly in Big Tech.

    As a friend and colleague of hers in the battle against Big Tech for years now, I can confidently say Gail Slater is the most effective voice for enforcing our centuries-old antitrust laws, which are central to American competitiveness and innovation.

    Like other free-market conservatives, Slater knows that free markets require functioning markets. And when Big Tech monopolists Alphabet (Google and YouTube), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (Facebook and Instagram) use their market power to crush competition, shutter small businesses, and cancel those with whom they disagree, we no longer have functioning, and thus free, markets.

    Our antitrust laws require targeted law enforcement against anticompetitive tumors like Big Tech. Antitrust enforcement differs from the type of industry-wide regulations tech monopolists welcome, which are little more than market entry barriers for startup competitors yet rounding errors for Big Tech.

    This is why almost everyone across the political spectrum — except, of course, tech giants and their paid shills in D.C. — should welcome the nomination of Gail Slater. She is a brilliant attorney and one of our country’s best strategic legal thinkers. She attended Oxford and started her career at the highly respected law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she specialized in antitrust.

    In short, she’s exactly the type of person we will need at the helm of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, which is responsible for enforcing antitrust laws and holding accountable anticompetitive actors in our economy, particularly the biggest and most dangerous: Big Tech…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/06/gail-slater-is-the-perfect-pick-to-lead-the-trump-dojs-fight-against-big-tech/

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  5. EXCERPT: “If the incoming Trump administration is serious about controlling federal spending — and it should be — there’s an easy place to start: Within the Executive Branch itself.

    For years going on decades, presidents of both parties have used executive action to spend money Congress never fully authorized. Under its pay-as-you-go rules, Congress needs to fund increases in spending with offsetting reductions elsewhere in the federal budget. (At least it should reduce spending elsewhere, but the rules frequently get waived, which is its own separate problem.) And because of those strictures, Congress often finds it easier to defer action to the executive, which doesn’t have to pay for new spending when it comes via regulation.

    As with omnibus spending bills, it’s another example of lawmakers’ laziness — because lawmakers don’t want to say “no” to anyone by cutting spending — leading to the abdication of Congress’ constitutional responsibilities. And with the federal government more than $36 trillion in debt, it’s bankrupting the next generation of Americans.

    Coverage of Obesity Drugs

    Just before Thanksgiving, the outgoing Biden administration proposed an expansion of Medicare coverage of anti-obesity drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which established the Part D program, prohibited plans from covering weight loss drugs. But the Biden proposal would characterize obesity (i.e., a body mass index of over 30) as its own disease, permitting plans to cover the drugs. (Medicare plans already cover these drugs for conditions other than obesity, such as diabetes or heart conditions.)

    On the merits, it appears a somewhat arguable case to distinguish obesity as a disease separate and distinct from general weight loss, and therefore allow for coverage within Medicare. Pharmaceutical company Pfizer hired consulting firm Manatt to make that argument in a policy paper released last fall.

    But put that argument up against a report released by the Congressional Budget Office in October, which said that expanding Medicare’s coverage of anti-obesity drugs would cost $35 billion over a decade. Add in the fact that the Biden proposal would require state Medicaid programs to cover these anti-obesity medications, imposing an unfunded mandate on the states, and the lame-duck nature of Biden’s administration, and the proposal looks like a cross between an executive power grab and a political stunt designed to put the incoming Trump administration in a bind.

    Unauthorized Spending

    Unfortunately, this type of spending by presidents has become far too common. It isn’t just the billions in student loan “forgiveness” that Biden shoveled out the door — to say nothing of the hundreds of billions more that he wanted to add to the total, had the Supreme Court not gotten in his way….”

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/06/reining-in-federal-spending-must-start-with-the-executive-branch/

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  6. EXCERPT: “According to the White House, “hours after taking the oath of office,” President Joe Biden embarked on an ambitious “day one,” “whole of government” agenda to “advance racial equity.” What followed was a shock-and-awe program of racial preferences. During his term, Biden signed three signature pieces of legislation — the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act — which gave certain preferred racial groups access to programs, benefits, and special treatment, while excluding others. These programs spent tens of billions in tax dollars and affected millions of Americans. 

    None of these programs fared well in court. In the ensuing years, courts struck down several programs as unconstitutional race discrimination, such as the Farmer Loan Forgiveness Program, Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency. In fact, the Biden administration is 0 for 9 in defending racial preferences in court.

    Litigation to end discriminatory programs is essential but time-consuming and incremental. While the administration lost in court and conservative law firms won, these legal victories just scratched the surface of Biden’s “equity agenda.” According to a new analysis published by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, more than 60 federal discriminatory programs remain on the books, untouched by lawsuits.

    Some of these are substantial, such as the Department of the Treasury’s two flagship race-based programs: the $2.5 billion Small Business Credit Initiative (which discriminates against small businesses) and the $10 billion Homeowner Assistance Fund (which discriminates against homeowners). The Department of Agriculture alone runs 30 separate race-based programs that discriminate against farmers in the areas of conservation easements, disaster assistance, and a bevy of grant programs. In all, at least 11 federal agencies now run racially discriminatory programs that affect Americans every day, all under the banner of “equity.”

    What can the new administration do about these entrenched DEI programs? There are at least four critical steps Trump can take immediately to make good on campaign promises to vanquish DEI from the federal bureaucracy…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/06/four-ways-trump-can-scrap-bidens-equity-discrimination-and-promote-real-equality/

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  9. IMO, PARENTS are the ones who should be responsible for what they allow their children to access, NOT the government!!! Parents need to stop caving to the fear that their children “won’t like them!” That may well be but at least they’ll be alive!!!

    Just The News: “The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) received a boost on Saturday reflected in posts on X, formerly Twitter, by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X. 

    The bill, sponsored by Blackburn and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Ct., had passed in the Senate last July by a vote of 91-3, but then stalled in the House based on censorship concerns. Blackburn wants to see the bill passed into law before the end of the year. 

    Yaccarino posted that “At X, protecting our children is our top priority. As I’ve always said, freedom of speech and safety can and must coexist. And as a mother, it’s personal. When X testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last January, we committed to working with Congress on child safety legislation. We’ve heard the pleas of parents and youth advocates who seek sensible guardrails across online platforms, and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) addresses that need. After working with the bill authors, I’m proud to share that we’ve made progress to further protect freedom of speech while maintaining safety for minors online. Thank you to @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal for your leadership, dedication and collaboration on this issue and landmark legislation. We urge Congress and the House to pass the Kids Online Safety Act this year.”

    Senator Blackburn then posted on X, “Led by X, the new changes made to the Kids Online Safety Act strengthen the bill while safeguarding free speech online and ensuring it is not used to stifle expression. These changes should eliminate once and for all the false narrative that this bill would be weaponized by unelected bureaucrats to censor Americans. We thank Elon and Linda for their bold leadership and commitment to protecting children online and for helping us get this bill across the finish line this Congress. We appreciate that this endorsement and revised text reflects their publicly stated goal of furthering free speech without fear of censorship. We reiterate X’s call to pass KOSA by the end of the year — it is clear that this legislation has overwhelming support from Congress. @elonmusk @lindayaX @SenBlumenthal

    In September, Blackburn released a video focusing on the “urgent need” to pass KOSA, a bill aimed at increasing children’s digital safety and privacy, according to The Hill. In the two-and-a-half-minute long video, titled “Why We Must Pass the Kids Online Safety Act,” Blackburn spoke with a woman from her state whose 17-year-old son took a pill laced with fentanyl that he potentially bought from Snapchat.”

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  14. “Depending on who you talk to (and who you choose to believe), it is the largest drug seizure in history. The drugs, worth $250m, were found in a shipment that arrived at Caucedo, the country’s main seaport, in the capital of Santo Domingo. The shipment had been sent from Guatemala and was destined for Belgium, according to Carlos Devers, a spokesperson for the Dominican Republic’s anti-drug agency.

    Ten suspects had been detained, he told a press conference.“Early investigations show that a container carrying bananas arrived from Guatemala,” he said. “Many unknown individuals tried to transfer the drugs to another container that would be shipped on a vessel to Belgium.”

    I wonder what will happen to the guy who came up with the idea of shipping so much merch in just one shipment. Betcha heads will roll – literally..”

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