Milk & Cookies
First of all, I'd like to say that I lied. We had peas for dinner last night, not broccoli.
Sorry, dear Internet, but I'll lie to you from time to time. I always come clean in the end.
Now that's out of the way, more cookie reports!
Batch #17 "Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies"
Recipe from Southern Living. This recipe includes both semisweet and milk chocolate chips, though not equal amounts (twice as much semisweet). The batter was unusually dense and sticky, but the resulting cookie was aesthetically pleasing. Light golden brown and chunky. The texture was soft and chewy with a bit of a crunch. Flavor was super-good. I'm sending this one to the next round.
Batch #18 "Good-For-You Chocolate-Chip Cookies"
Recipe from Cooking Light. Ingredients included half all-purpose flour and half whole-wheat flour, applesauce and reduced-fat chocolate chips. I used regular chocolate chips because I couldn't find reduced fat, and even if I had found them, I'm opposed to reduced-fat chocolate. There are no bad chocolate chip cookies, but these are by far the worst of the ones I've made, mostly because of the sorry chocolate-chip-to-cookie ratio. Sorely lacking in chocolate flavor. The whole-wheat flour added a slightly nutty flavor, which I kind of like. The color was light brown and the texture was puffy and soft. Chocolate chip cookies aren't supposed to be good for you. Broccoloons are good for you, and no one likes broccoloons, do they?
Batch #19 "Puffed-Up Chocolate-Chip Cookies"
Recipe from Cooking Light. The ingredient list calls for applesauce in place of some of the butter. The batter was quite runny, grossly so. Because the butter and applesauce are mixed together, the butter never gets creamy. Instead the butter was in very small chunks throughout the batter. The cookie was light brown and puffy with a light, spongy texture. I actually found the texture a bit disconcerting. They would, however, probably be excellent dunked in a glass of milk. Update 11.20.05: Cookies have developed an odd sheen about them, as if they are exuding moisture. A sweaty sheen. Yuk.
Dinner tonight: Grilled pork chops with port-fig sauce and pecans with roasted butternut squash salad
Update 11.20.05: Another lie. No port-fig sauce with pecans. Instead, pork chops with garlic relish. These lies are going to tear us apart.