Saturday 10th January 26 Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

[In A Pickle]

The idea was to get the boards completely ready yesterday (with two lots of everything so I could just reload them for later) and then not cook at all today but after picklegate yesterday (devilled eggs made from pickled eggs, don’t ever go there) I had to cook some more eggs.

The boards are a bit denuded with a lot missing in this pic as it’s now the evening and it’s on its second outing!

 

[In A Pickle]

And some cookies for after. Strange how the white chocolate drops disappeared into nothing more than a vague white mark and the dark chocolate held together.

This is only the second time I’ve made cookies because in all honesty I don’t like cookies. I thought if I made them myself and they were fresh from the oven I might like them but I don’t

It’s the amount of sugar in them, it’s just too sweet for me. I reduced the sugar by 10%, and would like to have halved it but the according to the author the sugar is crucial to the structure of the cookie

So folks here’s a picture of the last cookies I’m ever gonna make!
The family liked them though so thats something.

Now onto finding a biscuit recipe I like instead.

 

[pictonguy]

I had some venison I needed to use up and had some braised short ribs and rabbit from work so I made a Tourtiere.

 

[pictonguy]

My SO wants me to make Xian Bing which is a meat filled pancake that she's been bugging me to make again, I use to make them a few times a year. So I'm going to get the filling going tonight and probably make them in the next few days.

This is what they look like.

 

[cjmmytunes]

We're having pepperoni, mushroom, and onion pizza tonight

 

[dragnlaw]

So folks here’s a picture of the last cookies I’m ever gonna make!

I have a recipe for a "sugar" cookie that is really not very sweet. If you'd like I can send it off to you. This is the one I use for decorating. Can't say I'd recommend putting in choc. chips or anything - becomes too sweet again. LOL.
I've only ever used them for making shapes, never just a spoon plop. Have no idea if it would even flatten at all. It is the sugar that makes them spread.

I'd send you a sample to try but, you know... the sea air attracts hungry critters and I don't know if they'd arrive in an edible condition.

 

[In A Pickle]

I have a recipe for a "sugar" cookie that is really not very sweet. If you'd like I can send it off to you. This is the one I use for decorating. Can't say I'd recommend putting in choc. chips or anything - becomes too sweet again. LOL.
I've only ever used them for making shapes, never just a spoon plop. Have no idea if it would even flatten at all. It is the sugar that makes them spread.

I'd send you a sample to try but, you know... the sea air attracts hungry critters and I don't know if they'd arrive in an edible condition.

Use them for making shapes?
Is it a cookie or what we call a biscuit?
I dunno
Yes please send recipe and I’ll figure out what we’d think of it as from the ingredients

 

[Jusa]

Use them for making shapes?
Is it a cookie or what we call a biscuit?
I dunno
Yes please send recipe and I’ll figure out what we’d think of it as from the ingredients

Best-Ever Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

The BEST cut-out sugar cookies! No softening butter, no chilling dough, they bake up super soft and never spread. Your new go-to recipe!

www.browneyedbaker.com

 

[In A Pickle]

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Best-Ever Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

The BEST cut-out sugar cookies! No softening butter, no chilling dough, they bake up super soft and never spread. Your new go-to recipe!

www.browneyedbaker.com

A right a biscuit
Looks like shortbread.

Yes please @dragnlaw I’d like to have a look at a lower sugar version.

 

[dragnlaw]

Posted the recipe here for the cookies I make to decorate that are not super sweet at all.
I've always assumed you call these biscuits, so what are cookies to you (as a Brit)?

 

[dragnlaw]

@Jusa LOL, just checked the ingredient list on your recipe - wowser! almost the same! So funny! I'll have to give it a try.

 

[FrankZ]

We're watching football this evening and I did deep fryer wings.

 

[blissful]

Baked thin sliced sweet potatoes, an orange, a green smoothie. Mr bliss is having red beans, brown basmati rice, broccili, yellow bell peppers, tomato sauce.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

Breakfast - I couldn't decide on anything, so I had nothing, which means I will be having an early...

Lunch - I think it is time to eat that last burger, with havarti cheese, ketchup and mustard on the last brioche bun, some French fries, and a Pepsi, poopsie.

Supper - I am thawing out the rest of my chicken thighs and tri-tip to make Huli Huli chicken and steak, with Hawaiian macaroni salad, mashed sweet potatoes and asparagus.

 

[Jusa]

@Jusa LOL, just checked the ingredient list on your recipe - wowser! almost the same! So funny! I'll have to give it a try.

I basically only posted the recipe to give credit to the author for using their photo to show @In A Pickle what you meant by making shapes. I'm not much of a cookie baker but they look pretty good!

 

[taxlady]

I found myself craving more that cabbage soup that I made for supper yesterday. I still think it would be better with some veggie stock substituting for some of the tomato, but I did enjoy it. I had a roast beef on whole wheat toast with mayo, lettuce, and prepared horseradish to go with the soup.

 

[Jusa]

I made a delicious cream soup with chicken, carrots, broccoli, and wild rice (and onion, garlic, and celery). On my second bowl now. Yummy.

 

[Meryl]

For me, being British/Italian, "cookies" apart from internet ones , are the ones that @In A Pickle has made - thick, softer dough with chocolate chips, sometimes with nuts and dried fruit. Biscuits "biscotti" are thinner, crispier,usually containing less fat and sugar, which "snap" when you bite into them, apart from shortbread.
In other words, if we want a nice, chunky, chewy,comfort treat, we choose a cookie, but if we feel like something simple, plain and light, we choose a biscuit.

We will be going through an icy spell this week, temperatures below zero, so I think I may just see how my oven bakes some "feel good",comfort ,chocolatey cookies!

 

[In A Pickle]

Posted the recipe here for the cookies I make to decorate that are not super sweet at all.
I've always assumed you call these biscuits, so what are cookies to you (as a Brit)?

Same as @Meryl ‘s description above. Cookies refer to the big flat slightly gooey in the middle things and biscuits is pretty much everything else.
Although we do have a brand called ‘Maryland Cookies’ which are very popular here and are definitely a biscuit pretending to be a cookie
They’re less than a quarter of the size of a cookie and are very crunchy.

I notice although they are still listed at the supermarket as cookies they have dropped the word from the packaging.
Nowadays American style cookies are common place at our delicatessen counters and in shopping malls etc so perhaps that’s caused a few complaints from younger gens buying them and expecting a cookie

 

[Meryl]

I remember Mcvities rich tea biscuits and Morning coffee biscuits. Loved the custard creams too.