is about making slight variations of other people's recipes.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Chocolate Chip Cookies?!?!?
Anna's brief description of these cookies made them seem very appealing..."crinkly, craggly, dense & soft..These are great". They look yummy too! So I had to whip up a quick batch. What's sort of funny is that my variation of this cookie is a combo of two recipes from her blog. The filling combo I used is from the hazelnut lime-pepper cookies. So I used the Chocolate Chip Cookie base & filled the cookies with white chocolate chips, hazelnut, lime zest & black pepper. The flavor combo has been very popular ever since I first tried it with family, friends, co-workers & myself. For the lime-pepper cookies, I haven't tried the dough batter posted, but I've tried the filling combo multiple times with Cook's Illustrated dough recipe. This recipe never fails to yield a really chewy cookie, which is my personal preferred cookie texture. I was using this recipe as a base for a long time before I decided it was time to graduate & give other recipes a chance. So instead of chocolate chips & toasted walnuts/pecans, I used: 2 tblspn lime zest (3 -4 limes) 3/4 tsp black pepper 1 cup white chocolate chips 1 cup hazelnuts, skinned & chopped
Why organic? "Organic food, defined by how it cannot be made rather than how it can be made, must be produced without the use of sewer-sludge fertilizers, most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, genetic engineering (biotechnology), growth hormones, irradiation and antibiotics."
Why organic coconut oil? "Virgin Coconut Oil is a food, and is one of the best cooking oils you can use. As a cooking oil, its chemical structure is kept in tact and therefore is resistant to mutations of fatty acid chains even when used in higher cooking temperatures, unlike most vegetable oils. Research shows that the medium chain fatty acids found in coconut oil boosts the body's metabolism, raises body temperatures, and helps provide greater energy which can lead to weight loss."
Why brown rice flour? "Shih found that the batter formulated with long-grain rice flour and other modified rice ingredients again rated best, containing 60 percent less acrylamide than the wheat-based one."
Why is butter better? "One of the most healthy whole foods you can include in your diet is butter. Butter is truly better than margarine or other vegetable spreads. Despite unjustified warnings about saturated fat, the list of butter's benefits is impressive indeed: Rich source of easily absorbed vitamin A. Butter also contains all the other fat-soluble vitamins (E, K, and D). Rich in trace minerals, especially selenium, a powerful antioxidant & appreciable amounts of butyric acid & lauric acid. Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) which gives excellent protection against cancer."
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