Time to make some good ole Big Chocolate Chip Cookies. Now I usually just buy the tube of cookie dough eat half, and then bake the rest. One time in high school I was in a class called Food Service and Occupations. Basically it was a home ec of baking and such. It was cake class for me my senior year not to mention we just made food everyday. Tell me you wouldn’t want that as a class. I actually taught the class how to make a buttermilk biscuit. I got that obligation because the teacher told us like the second week we were going to start with biscuits. I of course said well thats easy. So she volunteered me to instruct the class. Well lets just say they were amazing and she used my instruction for the next class. Anyways one project was make cookies for some bake sale for the choir department. My group was to make chocolate chip cookies. Well that was a big mistake. Our recipe called to make 6 dozen cookies. When the day was done there were only 2.5 dozen on the cooling rack. Me and 2 others ate cookie dough all day.
Well this time I decided to make the cookies as I do everything else here. No tubs or tubes for this recipe. I simply went with the simple Nestle Tollhouse Cookie Recipe found on the back of the chocolate chips bag. Now of course I had to try and modify it a little bit figuring I could make them a little better. Because I love big cookies like you would find in a store I wanted to make my own. However I have tried with the tube dough many times to never get them just quite right. Usually they are never cooked right or they get really hard on top. So with my modifications I made what I would think you would find in some small shops and such. Now I’m sure that this recipe is out there somewhere and its not original to me. I packed them up and put them in a rubbermaid for the wife to take the cookies to work. She said people really enjoyed them. I know I did when they came out of the oven which by the way is the best time to eat them. In My Opinion.
First and foremost sorry I haven’t updated in a couple days I haven’t been able to find my cable for my camera. I know poor excuse so I finally took one off of a harddrive I had installed in my media center. Gotta find the other cable. anyways…
So for our anniversary I wanted to make something I knew my wife would love. So to top off the Chicken Cordon Bleu I made this cake. It is basically 4 layers of chocolate not just three like the title shows. It did take a while to make and was somewhat of a tedious make but it turned out well and tasted amazing. Even I who rarely will eat a desert like this had a slice. At the end of the night we ended up passing out 4 slices to different people so it was in our house to fatten us up. I found this recipe at 
So I’m watching Food Network and Tylers Ultimate comes on. So I figure I haven’t watched him before so why not. Well he makes a great little dish around the Chicken Cordon Bleu, and I decide hey I can make that. So I did and it turned out great. Now to my recollection I have never made Chicken Cordon before so I don’t have a lot of experience with it but if I don’t say so myself it was tasty. My wife also loved it so I will go with it was good. He did have some good tips on making it as well some of the other stuff he made will be well used later. I decided to try it for our Anniversary Dinner. I wanted something that would be ordered in a nice restaurant so that I could try it at home. I paired mine with some Smashed Garlic Potatoes, Raspberry sauce, the Sweet Vinaigrette Salad, and for desert the Triple Mousse cake ( recipe to follow on next blog) This meal was delightful elegant and fun to make. The chicken was very easy to prepare and cook. It all came together very well and easily.
One of my quick fix meals I make is this dish. Its very simple to make but packs quite a flavor punch. I believe an old office mate at one of my old jobs brought this in and she let me have some. I then start guessing the items in it and got all but the ginger. I guessed the wrong spice however I was pretty close. So I brought it home and decided to give my attempts at trying. I however never wrote down the recipe till one day Anne’s old roomate Cori wanted the recipe when she moved out. So I had to measure what I put in and so now I can post it for you guys with my best guestimates of how much is in here. As with most of my cooking with meats and such I cook to taste so I will try my best for this and future recipes to give you the exacts and then let you make your adjustments. Anyways this is best served in my opinion with the brown rice once again. I just really it vs. the white. This chicken and sauce is so flavorful on your first bite you really will be pleasantly surprised. The orange and the spice with the chicken are just a great combination that you wil not be disappointed with.
