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So, I'm a creative kind of girl. I sew, bake, garden, cook, paint, draw. I figured I would post and keep a diary of some of the things I do. If I cook or bake, I will share the recipe as I cook and bake from scratch. If I sew, I will show the inspiration as I don't use patterns. I'm hoping this will make me be more creative as I have a tendency to slack off occasionally.
This weekend, I made chicken under a brick , basmati rice and honey glazed carrots. I didn't take a picture of this because truthfully, I was on the telephone and plum forgot. I did also make chocolate chip cookies, which I did snap a picture of because I wasn't yapping my lips.
If I do say so myslef, my cookies are VERY good. My recipe is one that I've tweaked and I do from memory. Also, depending on what kind of cookie I want, I do a few things differently. For chewy cookies, I melt my butter before hand. For crunchier cookies, I use cold butter, for in between cookies, I use room temperature butter and for very buttery cookies, a use half butter and half margarine. I almost always mix with a wooden spoon, cookies just come out better to me. so here goes, sort of:
Goddess's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks of butter (cold, room temperature or melted, or add margarine depending on end result of cookie)
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
1 teaspoon or so of baking powder
a pinch or so of salt
about a tablespoon of vanilla (I never measure)
2 cups or a wee bit more of flour
handful or two of chocolate chips
optional: choice of nuts
heat oven to 350. Combine butter, and sugars, mix for a few minutes, butter mixture should be light and fluffy looking. Add baking powder, salt and vanilla, mix again, mixture should be slightly loose, not too much. add two cups of flour and mix until all flour is incorporated, you may need a little more, dough should be harder to mix at this point and look sort of like the dough in the first picture. Add, choc. chips and nuts and incorporate, folding until it seems as though chips and nuts are throughout entire mixture. To get cute round cookies, take dough and roll into little balls, about 1.5 in diameter, maybe a bit more. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and place in top rack of oven. They should take about 12 minutes or so to bake, check from 10 minutes on, try not to open the oven constantly, look at cookies using the light on the oven. Let cool off on rack, or do like I do and some while they are hot. Perfection!
This weekend, I made chicken under a brick , basmati rice and honey glazed carrots. I didn't take a picture of this because truthfully, I was on the telephone and plum forgot. I did also make chocolate chip cookies, which I did snap a picture of because I wasn't yapping my lips.
If I do say so myslef, my cookies are VERY good. My recipe is one that I've tweaked and I do from memory. Also, depending on what kind of cookie I want, I do a few things differently. For chewy cookies, I melt my butter before hand. For crunchier cookies, I use cold butter, for in between cookies, I use room temperature butter and for very buttery cookies, a use half butter and half margarine. I almost always mix with a wooden spoon, cookies just come out better to me. so here goes, sort of:
Goddess's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks of butter (cold, room temperature or melted, or add margarine depending on end result of cookie)
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
1 teaspoon or so of baking powder
a pinch or so of salt
about a tablespoon of vanilla (I never measure)
2 cups or a wee bit more of flour
handful or two of chocolate chips
optional: choice of nuts
heat oven to 350. Combine butter, and sugars, mix for a few minutes, butter mixture should be light and fluffy looking. Add baking powder, salt and vanilla, mix again, mixture should be slightly loose, not too much. add two cups of flour and mix until all flour is incorporated, you may need a little more, dough should be harder to mix at this point and look sort of like the dough in the first picture. Add, choc. chips and nuts and incorporate, folding until it seems as though chips and nuts are throughout entire mixture. To get cute round cookies, take dough and roll into little balls, about 1.5 in diameter, maybe a bit more. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and place in top rack of oven. They should take about 12 minutes or so to bake, check from 10 minutes on, try not to open the oven constantly, look at cookies using the light on the oven. Let cool off on rack, or do like I do and some while they are hot. Perfection!
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