Recipes!

Time to post some more recipes!

This is a cookie recipe. These are the best cookies I've ever tasted, and they're pretty healthy. They contain alot of oats and nuts and not just batter and chocolate.

The recipe calls for brown sugar, and I previously thought that brown sugar was unprocessed sugar (making it distinctively healthier than white). It may have been unprocessed in the frontier days, but in modernity it's just white sugar with Molassas added! Sure burst my bubble. But the brown sugar is distinctively less puckeringly sweet, so the cookies aren't just lumps to raise your blood sugar. Enjoy.

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup soft brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3-4 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
generous 1 cup rolled oats
6 oz chocolate (morsels or chopped baker's chocolate)
1 cup nuts, chopped (pecans or walnuts are ideal)

1. Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl until pale and fluffy. Add beaten eggs, milk, vanilla and beat thoroughly
2. Sift in the flour, baking powerder and salt, then stir in until well mixed. Fold in the rolled oats chocolate and nuts
3. Chill the mixture for at least one hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease baking trays (unless you're using stoneware, an infinitely better choice).
4. Place mounds well apart on teh trays and flatten with a spoon or fork. Bake 10-12 minutes until the edges are just coloring, then cool on a wire rack.

Recipe two is a sandwich wrap of my own invention. I made it for some of the ladies in my bible study before an outing. It's very portable and a nice change from normal American breakfast foods. There aren't any quantities listed with these ingredients, so adjust their proportions to suit your taste.

10" whole wheat tortillas
mushrooms cut in matchsticks
spring greens
asparagus, steamed
goat cheese
walnuts
watercress
alfalfa sprouts

1. lay the tortilla flat and bisect with a strip of spreaded goat cheese. Add the steamed asparagus, spring greens, watercress, mushrooms, walnuts, and alfalfa sprouts. Wrap filling up inside the tortilla. Wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap for portability.

One of the girls added a little olive oil and balsalmic vineger to her's to moisten it a little. I can see most vinegrettes working well with this dish.

Happy eating!