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All In Chocolate Almond Chip Cookies

I should have called this post “Joanne’s Kitchen Experiment” but then again, any time I begin perusing my cupboard shelves without a recipe in hand, anything that comes out of the oven is an experiment. Thankfully, the result was another success. Today I got busy with butter, oats, chocolate covered almonds, chocolate chips and cacao nibs. Ingredients: Makes 2 dozen 1/2 cup + 3 TBS unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 tsp vanilla 2/3 cups skim milk 21/2 cups flour 1 1/4 cups oats 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 cups chopped chocolate coated almonds [...]

By Joanne|2016-10-16T12:54:06-04:00October 16, 2016|Chocolate|2 Comments

Original Recipe for Biscotti

Well, ALMOST the original recipe with the exception of using walnuts instead of almonds. The method is the same and so is the base ingredient: simply flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, eggs and extracts. The recipe and information was taken from the “FOOD” section of the Observer Dispatch, Friday April 3, 2015. An article by Domenica Marchetti, special to the Washington Post. Biscotti means “twice baked” and results in a delicate flavored cookie, usually with an almond flavor. It’s easy to make and a beginner baker can find success with the first batch as long as certain techniques are followed: [...]

By Joanne|2015-04-29T18:38:42-04:00April 29, 2015|Baking|1 Comment

Eating Equals Energy and Oatmeal Cookies for Breakfast

When I first decided to run longer distances, 10 miles or more back in 2009, the thought of eating something before these early morning runs never occurred to me. After all, I had been going to the gym for years and running 5 miles a couple of hours before having any kind of food. I remember my first attempt at 12 miles on a stomach full of NOTHING. An epic failure. I was very careful working myself up to running that distance without getting injured although paid no attention to an equally important aspect of endurance which is nutrition. Now, [...]

By Joanne|2015-04-08T15:17:59-04:00April 8, 2015|Health and Nutrition|2 Comments

A Peanut Butter Surprise

Wow! I mean… there is no other way to say it but WOW! Checked the mail yesterday and this is what I found: Eight jars of the best peanut butter I’ve ever tasted. Not kidding! I’ve always loved Teddie peanut butter because it was so pure and tasty but when we jumped right into our Peanut Butter Boy PB, we found new love. It was so natural tasting and not as sweet. The texture for the creamy blend is smooth and soft AND the oil wasn’t separated. A recipe is included on the jar for Cinnamon Peanut Butter. Here’s more [...]

By Joanne|2014-09-09T15:20:10-04:00September 9, 2014|product review|2 Comments

Bouchon: Pecan Sandies from Thomas Keller

A couple of years ago when Ted and I went to California as winners of the Raisin Bread Contest, we visited a very well known bakery in Yountville, CA called Bouchon. It turns out there is a book of recipes for the delicious sweet treats, scaled down for the home cook. Chef’s Sebastien Rouxel at The French Laundry and Matthew McDonald, Bouchon’s head baker offer the best of their experience in the recipes. As I opened the book and began reading, even before getting to the main chapters, Thomas Keller, the books author, offers a favorite recipe from his childhood, [...]

By Joanne|2013-10-27T12:55:27-04:00October 27, 2013|cookies|2 Comments

Peanut Butter Wheat Cracker Cookies

It’s one week before the Rochester Marathon. Taper, taper, taper. Tapering is just as tough as hard core training, at least mentally. We’ll hope for cool, clear weather on the 22nd. Ted will run another half marathon in preparation for Chicago and I’ll run the full 26.2. It might be a good run, it might be a bad run. We won’t know until our feet hit the pavement in Rochester. Either way, the bottom line is FUN! Speaking of fun, making cookie-crackers with healthy coconut oil is fun in my book! I love to use coconut oil in most every [...]

By Joanne|2013-09-14T15:41:28-04:00September 14, 2013|cookies|4 Comments