holdouttrout: not your ordinary fish (cooking_weapon_of_choice)
The second batch of pizza (made yesterday) turned out fantabulous.

The chocolate chip cookies tonight did not. Too much vanilla, not enough flour. As my roommate said: they tasted fine as long as you were eating them, but the aftertaste was pretty bad. They also glued themselves to the cookie sheet like nothing else.

Terrible.

Guess I'll just have to do better next time.

And: OMG. The figure skating! It was awesome! Must go to sleep now...

Date: 2010-02-26 01:27 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] beanpot.livejournal.com
I have a great choc chip cookie recipe if you want it...

Date: 2010-02-26 04:19 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
ext_2131: picture of a fish with lots of green (cooking_rolling_dough)
Yes, please! I have a feeling this particular disaster was due more to user error than recipe error, but I'd be more than happy to test this theory. *g*

Date: 2010-02-26 07:37 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] beanpot.livejournal.com
1 cup of soft butter. BUTTER. Not the other crap.

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of light brown sugar

2 eggs

1.5 tsp of vanilla

1 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp of salt

pinch of nutmeg

3 cups of flour.

Mix wet, mix dry - toss in chips.

Bake at 375 until done.

(depending on the weather, you may need more or less flour)

Date: 2010-02-27 06:23 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazedturkey.livejournal.com
BUTTER. Not the other crap.

I think I love you.

Also I am stealing your recipe.

Date: 2010-02-27 01:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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Yay! Thank you.

Date: 2010-02-26 05:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] pcrackenhead.livejournal.com
Vanilla: how can something that smells SO GOOD, taste SO AWFUL if you get too much of it?

Seriously, every time I open the bottle and sniff it, I get this irrational urge to just down a teaspoon of the stuff.

Date: 2010-02-26 05:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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It truly was amazing. Almost as amazing as how many crumbles were left behind on the cookies sheets.

Date: 2010-02-26 05:48 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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Oh, and the really funny thing is that I put the first bit of vanilla in, and looked at it, and thought, "I bet I don't need the rest of this" and then put it in anyway because I was following the recipe. *facepalm* Next time, I listen to my instincts.

Date: 2010-02-27 03:35 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] rdamel.livejournal.com
I've been baking chocolate chip cookies since I was 10, I think, and wanted my own when my Grandma wasn't there for a visit (hers were wonderful!) I'm 58 now and so I've had a lot of practice and a lot of people who love them, over these years. I use mostly the recipe that is on the back of the bag of the Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chips. My main tweak (I used to use partly wheat flour, but I've gone back to unbleached white flour) is to put in 2/3 of a cup of white sugar, and 3/4 of a packed cup, of brown sugar.

Use parchment paper on your baking sheet, and be sure you do not overbake. About 10 min. at 375 degrees. I also always use buttery flavor Crisco shortening, rather than butter, which gives you a flatter cookie. I still remember when I was young, being at my other grandma's and she didn't have crisco so I used butter and they were flat! A shock.

Nowadays, I rarely make the regular chocolte chip cookies, though I sometimes do just to eat the dough. Now, I like all-chocolate chocolate chip cookies. To do those, you use the sam recipe, but put 1/3 cup of cocoa powder in with your flour mixture. Yummie! I like them straight from the oven, so I divide my dough into 4 containers, put all but one in the freezer. The other one in the refrig, and every night I bake just 2 cookies from that dough. It's my reward for eating healthily the rest of the day.

Melissa M.

Date: 2010-02-27 01:23 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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Nice! Adventures in baking cookies, indeed!

Date: 2010-02-27 06:24 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazedturkey.livejournal.com
Wasn't the figure skating amazing! The South Korean lady didn't even look likke she broke a sweat. Astonishingly effotless.

(Did you see the little Aussie girl *is proud* She was so adorable!)

Date: 2010-02-27 01:22 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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It was so good, and the South Korean lady totally deserved to win.

The little Aussie girl WAS really adorable! I was glad to be able to catch her, and who knows--maybe we'll see her again?

Date: 2010-02-28 12:00 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] pulsar4529.livejournal.com
I had this recipe for orange-walnut biscotti. The photo looked excellent. Mine looked and tasted horrible. So, I took it work where the men ate them with no problem.

I just should have gone with the prepackaged mix of Bob's Red Mill gluten-free cookies. Because those are good!

Date: 2010-03-01 02:02 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com
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My roommate took the cookies to work where one of her guy friends ate them and loved them. *shrugs*

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