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The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2012

By on December 12, 2012 in Food, Recipes

I participated in the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap this year. It’s been really awesome getting delicious cookies in the mail and helping to raise money for a good cause. OXO matched our donations dollar for dollar up to $100,000.00 for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. In exchange for our donation and participation, OXO sent us a cute spatula!

I didn’t have any trouble picking out a recipe. Go big or go home, right? I made the New York Times chocolate chip cookie recipe. Click the link to see the full recipe.

The not-so-secret ingredient in the cookies is good quality chocolate. I picked up some Valhrona Madagascar bittersweet feves from Adventures in Food Trading. They are complex and slightly fruity and really make the cookies sing.

The cookie recipe is pretty standard, except instead of using all purpose flour, it calls for a combination of bread and cake flour.

And after the dough is made, you cover it in plastic wrap and stick it in the fridge for at least 24 hours. I left it in even longer than that, up to 4-5 days. Frankly, I think it gets better over time, especially if you use a good quality chocolate. The qualities of the chocolate seep into the dough and make for a very complex cookie flavor.

They bake up beautifully. Slightly golden brown and the size of your palm.

Thanks again to the organizers of the cookie swap for putting together a fun event, and to OXO for their generous donation. Can’t wait for next year!

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Happy Friday!

By on August 24, 2012 in Food

TGIF, man.

I spent a few days this week in Ogdensburg, New York, for work. That’s Canada on the other side of the St. Lawrence. Thanks to being so close to the border, cell phone service was roaming, so I had to spend 68 cents a minute calling Scott. Boourns. But the sunset was very, very pretty.

Since I was gone two nights, Scott decided to make a special meal for himself. He went to the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store and bought some meat, milk, and other delicious items.

One of the things he picked up was raw milk. We’ve never had it before. I didn’t even know it was legal to buy in NY (it is, you just need to purchase it at the farm).

It looks pretty much like regular milk but it tastes different. It’s more earthy and grassy than regular milk. (do you like my pedicure?) It’s delicious. Scott’s in love, even at $8 a gallon.

Seriously.

He also picked up some regionally produced dark chocolate. I used to hate dark chocolate, but after eating better quality stuff, I like it. Hershey’s is bitter and nasty, but this stuff is great.

We are so spoiled to live where we live – such amazing food available.

 

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