HBC Attempt #3 - Oatmeal Cookies

Every standard cookbook has an Oatmeal Cookie recipe, and the Hershey Bears Cookbook is no exception.  Each variant is a bit different - every author or editor likes to include their own little unique bit of flair.  My mother's been looking for a good oatmeal cookie recipe for a while, so it seemed like a solid idea to test this one out.  It looks like I'll be able to put her out of her misery.

Oatmeal Cookies (HBC-Style)

The recipe is credited to Patrick McNeill, one of the current stars of the Hershey defense department.

HBC Attempt #2 - Skillet BBQ Chicken Pasta

After a weekend in Hershey with a friend, I took today as a recovery day.  In the interests of getting something done, I pulled out the HBC and tried to figure out what I had the ingredients to make.  I ended up with this:

Skillet BBQ Chicken Pasta (side of lemon broccoli)

Submitted to the cookbook by Tomas Kundratek, most recently the winner of the Milton Barland Award for Best Defensemen on the 2011-2 Hershey Bears.

HBC Attempt #1 - White Cake & Berries

A few nights ago, I started my cookbook project with White Cake & Berries (source: Kevin Marshall, defenseman acquired in February via trade with the Adirondack Phantoms).

General Verdict - Success.

2 slices of cake, from opposing orientations.

Culinary Adventures, AHL-Style (A Summer Project)

Last weekend, the Hershey Bears Wives & Girlfriends put the first batch of a 2011-2 Bears Cookbook on sale.  They're selling another (larger) batch this coming weekend, for a total of 800.  If you're handy in the kitchen, there are some interesting recipes included (and it's fun to flip through and try to infer things from who submitted what (or got their wife/mother to submit for them)).  However, many of them are a bit light on the instructions, so an idea of what you're doing is essential.

I've been needing to get more active in the kitchen - it's relaxing, and you always feel like you've accomplished something at the end of the day.  Enough of the recipes in the cookbook looked like fun that I'm embarking on a summer project that's only peripherally related to hockey- I'm going to cook my way through the book.  I'll have to give away large portions of the dessert batches at work, but it'll be worth it if I come away with a few good "keeper" recipes.  Not a Julie & Julia situation, just someone intrigued by the idea of Czech Crepes and Death By Garlic.