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I know the picture doesn’t look like chocolate chip cookies, and that’s because they aren’t.
This recipe is a base to make white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies. One day I might make chocolate chip cookies with this recipe. One day… Until then..
Simple, straightforward, delicious, with a few variations (macadamia/white chocolate chip) that never fail.
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Oh yeah! These are the bomb. Little flavor explosions covered in sugar. What’s not to like?
Mexican
This is the customary sauce that is used in Gallo Pinto, the traditional dish of Costa Rica. I had to make this myself, as it was unavailable at the stores. Luckily, there was a Mexican store that imports the peppers here locally, as they are a bloody fortune online.
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Every cookbook needs a simple pumpkin pie recipe, so here it is. This one came straight out of The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking. which I inherited from my Mother. Published in 1985 and 800 pages thick, it weighs about 6 pounds! Though I’ll never throw it away, a tablet is a little lighter.
The picture above is what I get when I’m not even trying. Deeeeeelicious!
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I’ve been making this for about 40 years now, mailing it out, and calling it my “yearly lump”. I started adding cherries a few decades ago… no complaints.
It is the only “fruit cake” that I really like, living half way between fruit cake and Stollen – the heavy bread we would slather with butter Christmas morning for breakfast.