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Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

  Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos.  Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying.  My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again.  For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to  Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...
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Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies with Strawberry Jam

 

These festive-looking holiday cookies only have five ingredients and taste delicious! 


Christmastime is here once again! One of the things I like to do during December is bake. I don't make too many items, maybe three or four, one for every week of December. The first thing I made this year were some cookies. I chose to bake Cheesecake Thumbprints and I topped them with some of my mom's homemade strawberry jam. She sent us a jar for my birthday, and I still had some left. 

These cookies from bakerbynature.com only have five ingredients. The hardest part about the recipe is just waiting for the butter and cream cheese to soften and then waiting a couple of hours for the dough to chill in the fridge. Otherwise, this recipe is really easy and fun to make. I kept my cookies in the fridge after I made them, but they were a little hard so I then left them out.

These cookies are creamy from the cream cheese and they also taste like butter spritz cookies. They remind me of three desserts: Strawberry Cheesecake, my mom's thumbprint cookies she used to make with nuts, and butter spritz cookies. You can use which ever jam or jelly you wish. The recipe I followed used Raspberry jam. My mom's strawberry jam was perfect for my cookies. She used strawberries from her garden to make her jam. Delicious! 

For the recipe I used, 5-Ingredient Raspberry Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies, you can go here. 

Happy baking and eating! 



Ready to go in the oven! 

Just out of the oven and ready to cool. 






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