Organic Chocolate Chip Cookies

For an organic variation on the usual chocolate chip cookie, use all organic ingredients. These cookies are hard to resist. Yum!!!

Ingredients (Makes about 2 dozen) -- Use all Organic ingredients below.
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup cane sugar, packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3/4 cup unbleached white flour, sifted
1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.

Cream together butter and sugar, beating until light. Add vanilla and eggs. Continue to beat well. Sift together both flours, salt and baking soda, and add to butter mixture, beating again. Stir in chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.

Round tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets that have been lined with parchment paper and sprayed with canola or olive oil spray. Bake cookies 15 to 20 minutes or until golden. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Eat up!!!

been a while...

Wow, it's been a while since I posted. Sorry for the break. I've just been studying and traveling. In any case, I have a great recipe for cookie lovers that I'll be posting shortly. Cheers!

Chicken Corn Tex-Mex Casserole

I was trying to decide what to make for dinner the other night when I decided to make some tex-mex. My husband loves tex-mex. I was going to make fajitas, but to my dismay, we were out of tortillas at home. Instead, I decided to improvise! I had some corn, chicken, bell peppers, jalapenos, onion, cheddar cheese, and tortilla chips -- all great things that can be just thrown in together for a casserole dish.

Below is the recipe. You can alter the chicken and shred it to make a great dip, or replace it with turkey or even pork. You can even add beans to the recipe.

Hope you like it as much as we did.


Ingredients
4 chicken breasts
5 decobbed corn or 2 cans of corn
1/2 a yellow onion - chopped
1/2 green bell pepper - chopped
1/2 red bell pepper - chopped
1 jalapeno pepper - chopped
2 cloves of garlic - minced
1 packet ranch powder
pinch salt
pinch pepper
1/3 cup of chicken broth
olive oil
tortilla chips
6 oz shredded cheddar cheese

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a pan, drizzle enough olive oil to brown chicken. Make sure to salt and pepper chicken before browning. After chicken is cooked, put to side to cool. In another pan, heat on medium high about 2 tbsp of olive oil. Add garlic and onions. Cook onions until carmelized or translucent. Add corn and ranch powder. Mix. Then add jalapenos, both bell peppers, a pinch of salt and pepper and chicken broth. Mix together and let cook for about 5 minutes.

In a casserole dish, take half of cooked veggies and put in dish. Add cooked chicken on top of veggies and take the rest of cooked veggies and all of the soupy sauce and top over chicken in dish. Sprinkle shredded cheese over everything and then crumble tortilla chips on top of cheese. Bake in oven for 20-25 minutes, until cheese is melted and golden brown.

Serve with side of sour cream, salsa, and saffron rice.