Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts

Cookies and Local Food

As promised, here is the recipe from the cookie dough I was eating last night (they are delicious cooked also!).  I was inspired by this recipe: Maple-Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies, but I added my own touches to it. Here is my version:

Crazy Maple Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • 3/4 cup AP flour
  • 1/2 rolled oats
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/3 cup real maple syrup
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • 1/2 cup 60% caoco chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup pecan
  • 1/4 cup toffee pieces
  • handful of unsweetened coconut (didn't measure, sorry)
I just mixed everything together and baked for 10 minutes at 350.

Great warm and dunked in a glass of milk! This is the only batch that actually got cooked. We just ate the rest of the dough raw, haha.

Now onto some exciting purchases I made today!

Earlier in the week, I ordered some items from athens.locallygrown.net where you can order fresh produce from local farmers!! I ordered some fresh eggs, rosemary, and Jerusalem artichokes. Pick up time was this afternoon. Check out what I got:

The eggs came in this cute, hand packed carton.

I was so excited that the eggs were multicolored! Looks like Easter!

The rest of the loot :)

Jerusalem artichokes are something I had never even heard of before, so of course I had to buy some! They look like little ginger roots. And the rosemary smells amazing! It was a very aromatic drive home!

Excited to try my new food, I immediately cut up some of the Jerusalem artichokes, tossed them with salt and olive oil, and threw them in the oven. This is my default way to cook veggies. 

Then I cracked open an egg right on to the pan, cooked it, and then ate it with some rosemary sprinkled on top! Wow. What a taste! If you get the opportunity to buy some fresh eggs, do it! I'm really going to enjoy these.

When my Jerusalem artichokes were cooked, I had no idea what they were supposed to taste like. I popped one in my mouth, and it actually tasted exactly like an artichoke! I think I prefer them to normal artichokes because they have a nice crunch, and they are much more efficient to eat since you don't have to scrape the good stuff off of a leaf!

Jerusalem artichokes. Don't look too pretty in the picture, but they were delicious!


Has anyone else try any new and exciting foods lately?

First Post!!!

Hello and welcome to my blog! 

I have recently become completely addicted to reading people's food blogs to the extent that I definitely need my own. Who knew that reading about what people eat everyday could be so fascinating! Hopefully other people might find my culinary adventures, food fantasies, and philosophies on health and nutrition as interesting as I find theirs :)

I am a senior in college (graduating in May, yikes!) currently studying to become a registered dietitian. I am also a foodie, a runner, a triathlete, and I like to take pictures of my food. This is often awkward in restaurants, but I've been doing it for years whenever I get a dish I am excited about. I am happy to know that there are others out there who share this habit.

This morning when I awoke from a food coma after 3 days of feasting on Christmas meals, went on an easy 5 mile run, and made one of my favorite light lunches: an open-faced avacodo and egg sandwich:

Frying the egg. (I am really enjoying using my parents' kitchen while home for the holidays. MUCH nicer than my apartment.)

Today I also added some slices of Gruyere cheese and sauteed some spinach. 

Avocado on organic nine grain bread.  Avocado = one of my favorite foods! :)

Ta da! All put together with a sprinkle of paprika.

And because I have to have something sweet after every meal (even breakfast...I'm a sugar addict!), here is a cup of Cinnamon Toast Crunch drizzled with plain yogurt and some fresh ground nutmeg:

I was pretty disappointed that we didn't have any Hazelnut Cinnamon Rolls left over that my sister and I made for brunch yesterday, but this was actually pretty satisfying. 

Oh, P.S., I am obsessed with cinnamon! I put it on cereal, yogurt, coffee, oatmeal, bananas, apples, and sneak it into every baked good I make!

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think!