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A lavender chocolate-chip oatmeal cookie, baked by Magickmaker. Mmmmm...
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You are correct, sir. Lavender buds baked into the cookies. It's an interesting, and delicious, experience -- the lavender hits you first, and then you get the gooey chocolatey-chip part while your mouth is still infused with the lavender.
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Run-of-the-mill semi-sweet Nestle's. Still tasty, tho.
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Since the wife and me were craving for some traditional British food I decided to try Jamie Oliver's Tikka Masala recipe as can be found here:

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-rec ... kka-masala

I should have looked at the comments first. Reading the list of ingredients already made me sceptical. No salt? The chicken not grilled? :o

But hey, it's a Jamie recipe and who am I to criticize him? Anyway, it smelled nice and the marinade sure is good. But it tasted ... bland. Like a watery tomato soup with cooked chicken cubes.

I kinda saved the dish by adding four times as many spices, a bit of palm sugar and SALT, FFS. I know our British friends are way more careful with salt than we are over here in good ol' Germany but NO SALT is NO SOLUTION either (if you excuse the chemistry pun).

The rendang (coconut beef stew, no Jamie recipe) we also had was much better and spicier.
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Vader wrote:Since the wife and me were craving for some traditional British food ...

But it tasted ... bland. Like a watery tomato soup with cooked chicken cubes.
That sounds like traditional british food to me!
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Ananda wrote:
Vader wrote:Since the wife and me were craving for some traditional British food ...

But it tasted ... bland. Like a watery tomato soup with cooked chicken cubes.
That sounds like traditional british food to me!
I should have tried non carbonating lukewarm beer with it. :p
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Enjoying Carb Smart ice cream with Smuckers Sugar Free Hot Fudge and Land O'Lakes Sugar Free whipped cream. Not the real stuff, but like the pizza casserole I make from the low carb induction menu, it's good to someone who has gone totally without...
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Turkey Mole enchilada casserole...trying to get rid of persistent leftovers as innovatively as possible. This one is pretty good.
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Mmmm, mole.... I was gonna try to make some from scratch. Then I looked up some recipes on teh intartubez and decided to try the "concentrate" from the grocery store instead. :lol: It's only okay. I may have to break down and try making my own anyhow. Sigh.
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home made dark chocolate ice cream and home made salted caramel ice cream.
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Would love the salted caramel recipe, Jenn. That's my favorite flavor of gelato. If I can play with it to make it lower carb, that would make my day.
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I'll post the link in the galley but make sure to double the salt as the recipe straight up is not salty at all. I added 1 and 1/4 tsp salt rather than the 1/2 tsp called for and it's perfect. I used a traditional salt to taste method and as I am kinda salt sensitive, not liking too much salt, you KNOW it's not enough when I say add salt.
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Got it.
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little toasted julbröd for breakfast. :D
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A scrambled egg wrap. I scramble some eggs with some garlic, tarragon, sage, and pepper (I've sometimes added paprika) on a flour tortilla with various baby greens (arugula, spinach, red cabbage).
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Jalapeno Popper Dip

Mmmmmmmmm. Soften cream cheese, mix in a little onion powder, and a tiny bit of salt, then overspread it with jalapeno jelly. Serve with your favorite buttery cracker. I used Townhouse.

Warning - it is as addictive as it is easy to make.

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Just had a "beer can chicken" with hot tinto beans on white rice. Only butter gets more tender than this meat.
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mini-samosa...mmmmm....cheap too.
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