December posting meme
Dec. 6th, 2022 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
killabeezDay 6, for ratcreature: Your 5 favorite cookies (home-baked or store-bought)
Hey, how did you know I love cookies? But I don't do well with sugar, so I rarely eat it any more. (That includes honey, maple syrup, and most sweeteners. Agave is okay.) So if I'm going to eat a cookie, I certainly don't waste it on the store-bought kind! (Though, uh, there are a lot of Nutter Butters in my past.)
Peanut butter is my favorite kind, and I went vegan for a few years, a holdover from which is this easy recipe that makes delicious cookies: Vegan GF Peanut Butter cookies It's also GF, which was handy when I lived with a few GF folks.
Another very easy vegan and GF cookie I make every holiday season: Cinnamon "Sugar" Cookies
Those are both made with maple syrup, which I tolerate slightly better than white sugar, and are just easy and yummy.
I don't have a digital copy of my grandma's butter cookie recipe (it's hand-written on an actual recipe card), but it's similar to this one, minus the food coloring and the almond extract. YUM. One of my favorites.
My mom makes pecan tarts, which I'm quite fond of, though I usually lose the battle to my dad and/or my brother, who eat them by the handfuls. I think her recipe is similar to this one, though she doesn't put powdered sugar on them.
I'm also a sucker for your basic Toll House Chocolate Chip—with walnuts or pecans for me, please, as adding nuts or nut butter seems to help me in terms of the sugar content.
And on that note, I'm off to the gym. :D
If you haven't already, please pick a day and ask me anything you like. ♥
ratcreature: Your 5 favorite cookies (home-baked or store-bought)Hey, how did you know I love cookies? But I don't do well with sugar, so I rarely eat it any more. (That includes honey, maple syrup, and most sweeteners. Agave is okay.) So if I'm going to eat a cookie, I certainly don't waste it on the store-bought kind! (Though, uh, there are a lot of Nutter Butters in my past.)
Peanut butter is my favorite kind, and I went vegan for a few years, a holdover from which is this easy recipe that makes delicious cookies: Vegan GF Peanut Butter cookies It's also GF, which was handy when I lived with a few GF folks.
Another very easy vegan and GF cookie I make every holiday season: Cinnamon "Sugar" Cookies
Those are both made with maple syrup, which I tolerate slightly better than white sugar, and are just easy and yummy.
I don't have a digital copy of my grandma's butter cookie recipe (it's hand-written on an actual recipe card), but it's similar to this one, minus the food coloring and the almond extract. YUM. One of my favorites.
My mom makes pecan tarts, which I'm quite fond of, though I usually lose the battle to my dad and/or my brother, who eat them by the handfuls. I think her recipe is similar to this one, though she doesn't put powdered sugar on them.
I'm also a sucker for your basic Toll House Chocolate Chip—with walnuts or pecans for me, please, as adding nuts or nut butter seems to help me in terms of the sugar content.
And on that note, I'm off to the gym. :D
If you haven't already, please pick a day and ask me anything you like. ♥
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Date: 2022-12-06 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-12-06 11:46 pm (UTC)It's always kind of tragic when a food type/ingredient we love doesn't agree with us. My sister has developed some kind of gluten sensitivity in recent years that isn't so severe that she can't eat wheat or such at all or has to eat GF, but too much leads to increasing gastrointestinal upset. (She actually discovered that her intermittent digestive issues were from gluten because due to several vegetarians in the family a holiday meal some years back was seitan-based, and the pure gluten blobs turned out to be a very bad idea for her in ways that mere bread never was, so the reactionwas much more clear cut and easy to pin down...)
Holiday foods for her are now a careful balancing act to maximize tasty baked goods and weighing where to spend the "wheat budget" etc., while not crossing the line for the finicky digestion. And unfortunately seitan-roasts are now off the holiday meal option entirely for everyone.
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Date: 2022-12-07 03:38 am (UTC)Please do share the two GF recipes with her, if she's interested. :)
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Date: 2022-12-07 08:34 am (UTC)I think it needs quite a lot for her to have issues on the gluten issues spectrum, it's just that with such a staple it's easy to reach that semi regularly if you have bread and other baked goods and then maybe a pasta dish etc. She didn't think it was gluten for a long time because she was fine on some days where she had eg sandwiches with regular bread and no reaction.
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Date: 2022-12-07 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-07 11:11 am (UTC)Oh, I have GF friends and I love peanut butter, so this is very handy!