a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
these cookies. oh man. they are delicious. chewy and crispy and a little bit savory and full of pools of melty chocolate. one bowl. no mixer. this is the stuff cookie dreams are make of. the name, buckwheat olive oil dark chocolate chunk cookies, is kind of a mouthful though, so let’s break them down, shall we?…
before we get to sesame ginger sugar snap peas, we need to take a moment. a moment to talk about snakes. so, apparently we have snakes in our garden. by “snakes”, i mean, at least one garter snake. and by “garden”, ha, well, i mean the part between where the grass stops and the front of the house starts. also now known as “the snake home”….
on tuesday when i was gushing over the almond cake with strawberry rhubarb compote, i promised that we would find a delicious way to enjoy the rest of the compote that was leftover after the cake was devoured. well, here it is: granola and yogurt parfaits with strawberry rhubarb compote….
simply put, this almond cake with strawberry rhubarb compote is delicious. prior to this cake, i was sort of undecided when it came to how i felt about almond flavored things when the almond flavor was more of the marzipan variety than the almond butter variety (since i know that i love almond butter, especially in cookies or energy balls). after taking one bite of this almond cake, though, i was instantly and firmly in the marzipan-y almond flavor is delicious camp….
remember those word problems back in math class where you’d be given a couple of variables and have to figure out how many combinations there were? yeah, i was never any good at those. i think there’s some pretty simple formula that you just memorize and then you always get that question right on the SAT but… i never did….