Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here’s my second effort for the Food52 Chocolate Cookie recipe contest.  The basis for this recipe comes by way of the former Restaurant Vintage Park in Kearney, Nebraska.  I used to make a metric butt-load of these guys.  I think it’s the best chocolate chip recipe ever; not too crisp, not over cake-like.  Just right.  [...]

Chocolate-Almond-Anise Cookies

Round one in my submissions to Food52 for their collaborative cookbook effort.  This weeks challenge topics; Chocolate Cookies, and Ham ‘n Cheese.  I’m gunning for the Cookies.  The basis for this recipe comes from the Baking with Julia series.  An old favorite and standby. Here’s the recipe – Yields about 16 good sized (2-2.5 oz) [...]

Chicharrones Cookies!

For all of you who can’t jam enough pig in your pie-hole, here’s another little treat from the Howells, NE Centennial Cookbook.  I thought this would be a nice treat for my former chef, Ryan Farr, now at the helm of 4505 Meats here in San Francisco.  (N.B. non-Latin, non-bay area residents, follow this link [...]