happy foods

[42itous]

These foods (and drinks) make me happy:

1) pesto. I thawed out some pesto the other night, which I froze when I harvested my basil in September. Adding fresh garlic made it fresh, and I've been stinking wonderfully ever since.
2) hot milk with honey.
3) peanut butter cookies. my recipe has no flour; it's like a dense lump of protein.
4) my grandfather's fried potatoes.
5) teriyaki salmon.
6) chicken shumai with hot mustard paste.
7) my mom's raspberry-cherry pudding with custard.
8) raspberry tart with a crust made of almonds.
9) nova lox with cream cheese on an everything bagel with capers.
10) spicy eel maki.

mmmmmyum.

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Yup:

1 c peanut butter
1 c sugar
1 egg
splash vanilla

Smallish spoonfuls, rolled into balls and then flattened with a fork. 350 for ~12 min. Makes about 2 dozen.

And after I'd been baking these for a year or two, Kyle showed me his hometown's church cookbook, and I found his grandmother's recipe, which is exactly the same.

[mycroft.livejournal.com]

I gotta try that. What kind of peanut butter does it work best with? I usually buy unsweetened.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I usually buy chunky-without-salt (from Trader Joes). Kyle prefers his pb with salt, so when I've baked these cookies I've found that I like them best when I use a 1:1 mixture of salty and not-salty.

I'd imagine that creamy pb would make smoother, flatter cookies, but I haven't tried it. The recipe also works very well with almond butter -- I put an almond on top of each one instead of flattening them with a fork, and it makes a wonderful kosher-for-Passover macaroon.

[mycroft.livejournal.com]

The peanut butter I buy comes in these convenient pint jars, so I had to suffer making a double batch.

I used creamy peanut butter, and it worked fine. They did not really spread out much in the oven.

I also added Reese's peanut butter chips to the second batch, thereby "inventing" the double peanut butter cookie. :-) (To be honest, I think they were better without the addition.)