Five Guys, One Piano

I was reading a great blog, Dimples and Delights, a blog with so many wonderful recipes on it.  On this particular post she had a link to a You Tube video by 5 Guys, 1 Piano.  So, I was just sitting in the living room with Rich and Mary and I decided to play it.  An hour and half later I came up for air.  We all three were immersed in the most beautiful and inspiration piano and cello music.  These guys are masters and bring classical and popular songs to life.  Mary was really taken by the first one that I am posting.  She really loves to "play" our piano and we caution her often to be gentle with the piano as she is composing her concertos and performances :)  We would love to give her lessons so her great love of the of piano can have roots and take her to the sky if she wants to.  Anyway when she saw this first video she said smiling,  "These guys are being bad and they are going to turn into donkeys".  (I think someone has been watching Pinocchio a lot lately.)  She loved it and had me play it for her a bunch of times.  I am going to post 3 of my favorites.  It was hard to pick as I liked them all but you can go to You Tube and find them.  One of their videos has over 22 million views.  So, I guess they are pretty popular.  Well here is the first one where Mary thought for sure they were going to turn into donkeys :)

 

 



This one is so insprational.  I love to see the people's faces and what they do as they listen to the performance

 

This last one was one of Rich's favorites.  It has over 22 million views.

 

 

 

 

Along with our music we had some chocolate cookies I made up yesterday.  I went into the kitchen planning on making chocolate chip cookies but didn't have all the ingredients so I substituted and came up with this recipe.  I think it is a keeper at our house.

 

Mama's Special Chocolate Cookies

 

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

3 tbls dark cocoa powder

 1 cup butter softened

 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs

7 Reeses Peanut Butter cups chopped up finely or rumped up in the food processor

 

Preheat oven to 375 F

 

Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder in a small bowl.  Beat butter, sugar and vanilla in a large mixing bowl until creamy.  Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.  Beat in gradually  the flour mixture.  Stir in the chopped Reeses Peanut Butter cups.  Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased baking sheet.  Bake for 9 to 11 minutes.  Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

 

Now those are some yummy cookies!