Chocolate chip cookie science

 Some nights you just want to have a light dinner and then retreat to your comfy bed and relax for the rest of the evening, but then you start watching Man VS. Food and hunger strikes. Don't you wish you had a jar of cookies to reach for?

For the next two weeks, I will be experimenting with chocolate chip cookies recipes to see which mix of ingredients will bring me THE chocolate chip cookie.

I want a big, fat, crisp on the outside chewy on the inside, chocolatey bite.  Thanks to Bakerbettie, I will be mixing bread flour and regular flour, brown sugar and white sugar, and putting quality chocolate and maybe even a bit of cornstarch or graham crackers.

I want my cookies to look like this

and not like this

After lots of experimentation here are what mycookies look like

 

Successful beef pie with 2 crusts

Golden brown from top to bottom :)

Breakfast today

Breakfast today was hot tea, leftover spinach lasagne, a banana and peanut butter

Beef pie trial

Saw a butter crust pastry from foodwishes and decided to try it for beef pies

 

My favorite version is this.  The hand pie. 

Small beef and mushroom pot pie.

Growing basil

My basil plant is dying! I think the weather is too hot this summer. Two stalks dried up already. The leaves are falling out easily and they are very crisp like lays potato chips. :(

I tried again and basil was doing really good and now that it is summer again the basil is drying up. Why are you so hot Philippine summer?

Instead of buying plants I just buy a pack of basil from the grocery store, tear off the leaves to make pesto then line up the stalks, make a fresh cut and stick em in the soil of a pot. They always grow large leaves. 

Homemade mcdo/jollibee chicken

Newly baked: mini cheesecakes

These are good. Best of all the cream cheese is buy 1 take 1