Three treats

Bittersweet chocolate chips, sour cherries and toasted almonds.... yup this is the cookie dough!

I am trying to figure out the secret of a perfect chocolate chip cookie (without using shortening).

Tim says there is another recipe for the basic chocolate chip cookie that uses 3 sticks of butter and more flour. This is going to be my next attempt I think. They are never fluffy enough, and often spread out too far despite my greatest efforts to get the dough to the right temperature before baking, only beating the dough enough to incorporate the ingredients and getting the oven to the right temp... It is yummy to experiment with cookies!

This photo below is one of our favorite breakfast treats. Leftover taco filling, made into a breakfast quesadilla. Scramble some eggs and cook them like an omelet. Grated cheese, taco filling, the perfect disc of scrambled eggs, some avocado, more cheese and voila! A great use for leftovers - depending on your taco filing, this is a really healthy way to start your day. This time we used tempeh, broccoli and onion. You have to try this!

Finally, POPOVERS! This is my second attempt at making popovers - very simple to make, but still searching for the best baking times. If you have made them before, you know they are first baked at a higher temp, then you reduce the heat to finish the baking. I think that I need to reduce the high heat time. They have come out a little hard, and a little too brown. We will have to do this again!

You should know that we filled these - obviously you can see - with savory ingredients. Eggs, shallots and sausage in a scramble, dried cranberries and walnuts made into a big jumble, then stuffed into the popover. I actually ate this as a finger food - it would be perfect for breakfast to eat on the go if you only had someone to prepare all of the ingredients while you took a shower and got ready for work!

I met a customer at LLB yesterday looking for our popover mix - sadly we didn't have any. I ended up sharing with her how easy it is to make from scratch... 3 ingredients! While talking about eating popovers, she shared with me that she enjoys filling them with ice cream and then topping with hot fudge for a POPOVER SUNDAE! WOW! Maybe that will be dessert today? It would be even better with jam and ice cream... mmmmm.... I am daydreaming about dessert popovers.