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in a word, yum! these almond butter chocolate chip cookies are kind of ridiculously good. i say ridiculously because they don’t have any refined sugar (well, depending on what kind of chocolate chips you buy) nor do they have any butter or other things that make traditional cookies good. they don’t even have any flour! they’d basically be figments of your tastebuds’ imagination if it weren’t for dates and almond butter. aaaaand plenty of chocolate chips.
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i think we can all agree that there is a certain allure to “grilled pizza”. it sounds both sophisticated and simple, all at the same time.
well, the first time i *tried* making grilled pizza, it was neither sophisticated nor simple. i’m not even sure it was edible. dough burned onto the grill grate, holes ripped in the dough, the dough folded over and cooked onto itself, toppings fell through the grates, sauce soaked through the crust – basically anything and everything that could have gone wrong did.
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when i looked back at the printed copy of the original recipe, i noticed that i printed it back in 2003. whiiich was 12 years ago?! what?? it can’t be 12 years ago, because i remember making these in college and i only graduated… a decade ago. crazy.
truth 1: time flies
truth 2: these quesadillas are tasty, and have gotten better over the years as i’ve adapted them…
when i was super little (we’re talking 4ish years old here), my babysitter would take my sister and me to the local pizza place every friday for dinner. in fact, we were such regulars that one week, the staff (it was a small, family owned place, so it could have been the owner), treated us to our meal on the house. i thought this was the coolest thing ever! (and still remember it approximately 28 years later, in case you’re a small business owner and wondering if treating your customers well is worth the “expense”.)
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