Hey.
So, as I have discussed it with some of you here, our almonds have been activated, but even weaponised autism bodies need the fuel.
All jokes aside, inflation is crazy everywhere. Just ordering some stuff was viable some time ago, but it's getting less so. Plus, tasty food is good for your general well-being and making it so is not only a skill all adults should have in my opinion (you are strong, independent adults, learn life skills that make you depend less on everyone else), but it can also be fun.
As much as I would love to feed you all, that's obviously impossible. The next best thing is, I curate a little collection of recipes and break it down so you can make it with relatively simple ingredients that don't depend on specific brands and using from scratch stuff as much as it is viable. Making your own pasta and churning your own butter would be fun, but I work a full time jerb that's not ASMR whisper cooking on Tiktok in a peasant dress.
It's going to be a combination of food from all different kinds. Some Hungarian (none of the war crimes Americans call goulasch), some Asian, some inauthentic shit that will get you cancelled, some mains, pasta, soups, desserts.
So gather around, my friends and eat like kings.
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My mom's cousin just popped in and she promised her BF some cake or something, so I super quickly mixed up some chocolate cookies. Might as well share while it's chilling.
170 g butter at room temperature
150 g brown sugar
100 g granulated sugar
130 g flour 1 tbs cornstarch
1 egg
a splash of vanilla extract
70 g unsweetened cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsb baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 100g bar of white chocolate
1 100g bar of milk chocolate (obviously you can swap your chocolate around, but the dough is REALLY chocolatey, so I think some sweeter chocolate pieces go well with it
Cream butter and sugars. Add the egg, vanilla and the instant coffee. Mix until combined.
Add all the dry stuff and mix until just combined. Roughly chop the chocolate and fold it in. I mix the dough by machine, but fold the add ins by hand to not overmix or crush them.
It's a softer type dough, don't be surprised. Chill for a good 30 minutes in the fridge.
Heat your oven to 175 °C (350 °F). Lay some baking paper on some baking sheets.
Make walnut sized balls of dough, put them on (they spread quite a bit) and flatten them just a little bit. Yes, it's a sticky dough still, trust me, it will be okay.
Bake for 12-15-ish minutes. Because of the high butter content, the cookies will be soft when you take them out. As they cool, they become stable, but they will be a softer kind of cookie.