COOKIES
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DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES
“In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” Author Unknown I bake snacks for the kids 3-4 times a week. It takes care of their ‘tiffin’ or snack box, & caters for their snack when they come back home. Lunch is served in school, & the kids are usually ravenous when they get back around 3 in the afternoon. I endeavour to add variety from time to time ranging from banana chocolate-chip muffins, oatmeal cookies, pound cake, sandwiches, pasta, but often find myself reaching out for the cocoa. This was one such ‘cocoa moment’, where I put together a number of different recipes to make these cookies. The…
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COFFEE GLAZED CHOCOLATE-CHIP SCONES…A delicious mouthful!
“I always fear that creation will expire before tea time.” Sydney Smith A sweet beginning for October. A new month, a fresh bunch of challenges, a load of activity across blogs…& food, glorious food! Winter is creeping into the Northern hemisphere, while Spring is springing into the Southern. What better time to enjoy some warm scones for tea but now?My first exposure to authentic scones was back in the 80’s when a bunch of us girlfriends had gone over to stay in a castle up in North England which was being restored by a Scottish lady. The memories are quite faint now, but I vividly remember a couple of things……
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2 TONED BISCOTTI…COFFEE & CHOCOLATE!
“Yield to temptation…it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long On the 5th of September every year, schools across India celebrate this day as Teachers Day. Every attempt is made to make teachers feel special, & the kids make cards etc for them. Both mine always take some cookies for their class teacher, & a few others. The daughter voluntarily makes about a dozen cards, while the son struggles to make 1! She is like a card factory in herself, & in the span of an hour turns out about a dozen well made, similar looking cards, with intricate art-work; the writing looks like it’s been printed. Trying to…
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POPPY IN MY LIME COOKIES…COOKIES WITH ZEST!
“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.” John Keats When we were little girls , many many moons ago, a favourite winter pass-time was to make little dolls out of the bright red poppies that grew in our garden. The petals would fold down to make bright red dresses, & the capsule on top would look just like the head. Gave us hours of fascinating pleasure, whiling away time with silliness of this sort. Cut back to now…a bag of black poppy seeds has been demanding my attention from time to time. In India we get a lot of white poppy seeds, known also…
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SUNFLOWER OATMEAL COOKIES…HAPPINESS IN A COOKIE!
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do. “ Helen Keller I LOVE baking, which is quite obvious I’m sure…& baking sometimes seems to be the best escape for me. Even when I’ve been run ragged, rushing the kids up & down & across town, doing grocery, laundry & every other silly thing under the sun, I come back home & am always ready for some baking therapy. Found some lovely sunflowers growing at a friend’s place, & couldn’t resist the offer to take a few. So home I came, clutching a pretty buncha flowers in giddy excitement. Sunflowers just do this…
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MIXED BERRY & NUT CLUSTERS….Cookies, Cake & CLICK
“If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?”Erma Bombeck Mixed Berry & Nut Clusters Aaaaaaaargh…it’s just another of those days when time begins to run out on you even before morning has nicely broken!! Day before was a busyish day. I made cookies out of dried berries & I made chocolate chocolate-chip muffins from Nigella’s recipe @ Food network…asking for trouble to tell you the truth! The muffins were not nice at all, so not worthy of being posted. Had my dear friend’s kids over from Ukraine, so then made chocolate morsel cookies too. The kids are complete chocolate addicts & will not…
