Almond Butterscotch Honey Cookie

This morning I recieved a great gift, kitchen scale and a ratio-based cookbook! The book breaks things down into it's simplest form. For example a cookie is really just 1 part sugar : 2 parts fat : 3 parts flour. I tested out a basic cookie recipe and added a few things of my own.

6 oz room temp unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks)
4 oz white sugar (1/2 cup)
4 oz brown sugar (1/2 cup)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 oz flour (1 3/4 cups)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350*

Combine the butter and sugar in mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In another bowl combine salt, flour, and baking powder and stir. With mixer on low add flour mix to butter mixture until dough is well combined. Fold in chocolate chips.

Drop tablespoons onto a baking sheet, leaving an inch or so between each cookie. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges begin to darken.

I, unknowingly, out of eggs this morning so I used a tablespoon of honey and a dash of vegetable oil. The texture was a little softer than this recipe would have made but it was very yummy! I also added butterscotch chips and almonds instead of chocolate chips. They just might be a new stand by cookie.




Enjoy

grazing on a hungry afternoon

after a long week of baking and preparing for the holidays, sunday afternoon leaves me with an empty pantry, and an empty belly. perhaps you are feelin the same way? take a look at our new recipe section there, to the right, for some dinner inspiration.

we'll be sure to post our new favorite holiday treat recipes, as well as some other yummy little items.

i've had sugary buttery hands for weeks now, which is great...dessert is great. sugar..great. but i'm looking forward to working on some healthful, light cooking. more and more i'm wanting to move the the other side of the country of ours for the produce. going to our supermarkets here is rather dull, couldn't find escarole last week! very upsetting...being in san francisco, where i visiting three farmers markets in one week..on the same street! that's what i need. speaking of san francisco, my dear friend jason will be designing us a new logo! very very excited for this.

check out the recipes!

field trip for 4

Benny, Lumi, Nicole and myself are headed to the Tiverton Four Corners tomorrow morning for some inspiration for the pairing. We have some ideas...we think they are good...

In the mean time why don't you all hang tight and visit this site...

Milk and Honey Bazaar.

pairings with nicole and liz... not andrea

Some inspiration for our food pairing this THURSDAY NIGHT @ AHA! We are really excited to pair up with Travessia Urban Winery of New Bedford ! They are devoted to locally making only the finest and most locally crafted wines. Nicole and I have been Wine Club members for a while now, and not only are the bottles under $15 for members, they are so absolutely delicious and make for a fantastic gift idea. What better to give for the holidays than a bottle of locally made wine? Thoughtful, inexpensive and most importantly for our purposes here, DELICIOUS!

See you Thursday, December 10th, 2009 @ Calico in New Bedford, 6pm. Be there or be square!

A Year in Review (cont.)

My favorite Cappucino ever. New Years eve 2008-2009 in Berlin.
We had already been traveling for twelve days. London. London to Paris Christmas Eve morning. Five days later to Berlin. Berlin to NH for Michael and Dad, but onwards for me! I woke up later than them, sad and teary eyed at knowing that I had an entire month ahead of me without the three most important people with me (minus Benny). I got ready and cabbed over to East Berlin where I wondered for hours before I met up with Bisi. American Apparel, a really beautiful little cafe that I would have died to work at (or better yet even own...) and FINALLY to the hostel to see Bisi, my only familiar face for a month! New Years day we trekked up to Kassel where we would begin our studies but not before we stopped to enjoy a beautiful danish and a cup of this delicious cappuccino and begin our journey!

oh GOODNESS!

This year was a big year for us... we met, we "fell in love", and we started a blog. I knew the minute I spoke with Nicole that we were supposed to do food together. We had the same visions, the same ideas, an the same passion: to bring real and exciting food to people, mostly vegetarian, without them realizing. Sustainably speaking the best and quickest way to reduce your carbon footprint is to eat less meat.(not to mention the slew of other health benefits that come with not eating factory farmed meats, cheeses, milk, etc.) This blog was something we were so excited about and has become a staple for us in what we cook and do every day. So, that being said...

I was playing with my camera phone the other night and realized that I had over 900 photos saved... about 50% of which are different things I have made with the intention of adding to our blog and never have...

So for the Holidays how about a few "best of"s of the year... stuff that made the grade but never made it up!

Here we go.


Frittata with roasted peppers, spinach, pesto and mozzarella.




Pressed Paninis on Incredible seeded Italian bread with home made mozzarella. (With Kastel Cru courtesy of the McMahon sisters)


Homemade White Sangria with fresh summer fruits!
(Potluck @Elissa and Chris')




Baked Ziti

Mixed greens on puff pastry with warm dressing and fresh rasberries

On our way to sonic youth and with almost nothing left to cook in the house...

Trying to remain health conscious I knew a salad was my best bet but it was freezing outside and I just couldn't get behind me decision...

I made a simple dressing of garlic, black pepper, 2 tablespoons of balsamic and 4 of extra virgin olive oil... Bring to a simmer and let cool.

The salad was simply mixed greens and feta, and after baking squares of puff pastries I topped them with the salad, warmed dressing and fresh berries!

It was a huge hit...


- Posted from on the road!

Craft-o-Rama!!!

The second annual holiday stroll in downtown New Bedford is happening today and one of the events is craft-o-rama. There are about 20 or so vendors with all sorts of homemade housewares, clothes, jewelry, honey!!!!


I'm tucked behind my little table filled with bags of gingerbread popcorn, marshmallows, and coconut macaroons.





If all goes well by the end of the day I'll have an empty table and some movie money in my back pocket.

Come visit!! It's happening at the bristol builiding in downtown NB, next to the green bean from 12-5, Sunday also.


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