Who doesn't love chocolate chip cookies?! This recipe makes melt-in-your-mouth cookies that won't dissapoint, and are a staple in our house!

Recipe:
1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 Tbs vanilla
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking pwder
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Optional: Add 1/3 cup of Skor pieces! This addition gives the chocolate chip cookies we know and love, a sweet kick! I highly recommend adding Skor if you have a sweet tooth like mine!!

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream together butter, granulated and brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda. Mix dry ingredients well.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in 4 parts. This will ease the mixing. Blend well.
Add the chocolate chips and Skor bits. Mix.
Spoon cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Put in oven for 7-10 minutes. I like to keep it on the shorter end (7 mins) to make the cookies very soft and chewy. Recipe makes about 30 delicious cookies.
Enjoy!

-Jesse

As I was cruising our vet's website (http://www.acc.citymax.com/index.html) this morning I came across a link they had posted for Veterinary Partner, a website designed to help you make sense of medical terms/ conditions that may affect your pet, as well as other useful tips. Here I found a link to their Canine Behavior Series (http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=SRC&S=1&SourceID=47). This page is FULL of information on everything you can possibly thing of relating to your pup, from training techniques, how to pick a puppy that's right for you and naming your puppy to socializing your dog, toys do's and don'ts and dominance issues.

Not only does home grown Alberta Beef taste scrumpscious, it is also good for your health! Check out this info from the Alberta Beef Producers Raised Right site...

While cruising the Canadian Gelbvieh Association website I came across some fun cattle facts. Did you know?

From Jesse:

I thought I would share a blog by a friend of mine all the way from Canada's beautiful East coast. The Sailor's Wife blog features to-die-for recipes from Newfoundland's own Sara (Green) Cole- Miss Newfoundland & Labrador 2009. While there are many delicious recipes on her site, my absolute favorite and go-to dessert is her homemade 'deployment brownies' from scratch. I am drooling just thinking about them! Check out her site- she even has recipes for dogs! This is a must see site and definitely worth coming back to again and again!
www.thesailorswife.ca

Whiskey Creek Ranches is proud to raise Alberta beef and you should be too! Check out some Alberta Beef recipes on the Famous Taste portion of the Alberta Beef Producers website- http://famoustaste.albertabeef.org.
Not only will you find tastey recipes but there is also a page devoted to explaining the different cuts of beef, where they come from and how best to use them in the kitchen. You will find the link to that page here.