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!