We did it.
Thank you for joining me and donating $40 for pediatric cancers research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center!
Fundraising Goal: $4,000.00
Total Number of Gifts: 52
Total Value of Gifts: $4,844.40
It's not too late to participate. #40for40
Help Me Turn 40 and Fight Pediatric Cancers
My 40th birthday is next week and I'm thinking about cancer. I guess it's not a surprise that it's upsetting me, but I sure didn't expect it to be on my mind so much. I'm thinking about my cousins Harry and Suri and Shirley, of friends who have lost siblings and parents, of people I love who are still fighting. I thought my anger and grief had mellowed. Nope. They're just routinely pushed aside.
I'm turning 40. I don't need anything. I'm sick of stuff. I have a wife that loves me and kids that can't wait to hug me when I get home.
“A man once asked the Buddha to grant his family a blessing. The Buddha thought for a moment, then replied, ‘Grandfather dies, father dies, son dies.’ The man was horrified, but the Buddha shrugged his shoulders. ‘What other way would you have it?’”
No, I don't need anything for my birthday. But I want something. I want you to help me give a child suffering from cancer a better chance of reaching their 40th birthday. I want you to help me fund critical research in pediatric cancers, so that tomorrow children and their parents will no longer suffer.
Please forget the gifts and cards and well wishes. Just join me and donate $40 to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to fund their research into curing pediatric cancers.
Thank you.
A Tale of Two Cookies
Welcome to the match-up you've been waiting for. The most exciting cookie battle since last Christmas. In the left corner, weighing in at a svelte 2.5oz and loved by grandchildren everywhere, Grandma's Grand Finale Cookies. They are the only good thing every inspired by a Bush. In the right corner, weighing in at a muscular 3.5oz and trained by the best at Momofuko Milk Bar, the upstart, the challenger, Hertzberg's Anything Goes Cookies. Who will win? Whose cookie will reign supreme?
Grandma's Grand Finale
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter or margarine, softened
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups quick cooking or rolled oats
- 1-1/4 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup dried flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped almonds
- 3/4 cup raisins
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Combine the butter, brown sugar, and sugar in a large bowl and beat them with an electric mixer set at medium speed for about 2 minutes or until creamy and well blended. Add the egg, orange juice, and vanilla extract and beat them in thoroughly. Stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Stir in the oats, chocolate chips, coconut, almonds, and raisins. Scoop blobs of dough about 2 inches in diameter and place on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake for 15–18 minutes or until browned. Makes 3 dozen
Hertzberg's Anything Goes
- 2 sticks butter, at room temperature
- cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup tightly packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn syrup
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3/4 cup large 60% cocoa Ghirardelli chocolate chips, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped Fairway chocolate covered sea salt caramels
- 2 whole Graham crackers, broken into large pieces
- 1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 3 teaspoons ground coffee (not instant)
- 2 cups Cape Cod potato chips, whole
- 1 cup mini-pretzels
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup corn flakes (or Rice Krispies)
Combine the butter, sugars and corn syrup in the bowl of a stand mixer (use paddle attachment or regular beaters if you don’t have one) and beat the ingredients on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and beat for 7-8 minutes at medium speed. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat at low speed just until a dough forms. Add the chocolate chips, caramels, graham crackers, oats and coffee and mix on low speed until the ingredients are incorporated. Add the potato chips, pretzels, coconut and corn flakes and mix at low speed until just incorporated. Place mounds of dough (about 1/3 cup) onto parchment-lined cookie sheets, leaving plenty of room for the cookies to spread. Pat the tops of the mounds slightly. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (up to 1 week). Be sure to bake the cookies when they are cold, not room temperature. When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375°. Bake the cookies for about 18 minutes, or until browned at the edges and beige-yellow in the center. Cool the cookies on the cookie sheet. Makes about 20-24 cookies. (HT Momofuko and Oprah)
Can you guess who won this game?
Stat
Shots
Shots on target
Corners
Offsides
Fouls committed
Yellow cards
Ball possession
Team 1
24
7
20
1
14
1
55
Team 2
6
3
1
2
26
4
45
