Recipes

These cookies just came out of the oven …. they are a first time experiment and I’m freaking out at how tasty they are! The cranberry adds a wicked zing, the white chocolate gives them a cheesecake-ish flavor and the pistachios go crunch! The inspiration came from leftover ingredients from this turkey roast recipe

Guacamole is pretty forgiving, but there’s a few key elements that I can get preachy about:

don’t mash the sh$t out of the avocados – a little chunky texture is nice
lotsa lime
skip the sour cream / mayo / etc… avocados are wonderfully creamy on their own!

The Goods
2 large avocados, as ripe as you can get them, [

I cooked a turkey roast instead of a whole turkey to simplify the prep and cleanup… admittedly I’ve never shoved a whole bird in the oven so maybe I’m just avoiding that experiment

I’m not sure how to describe this dish except it was the best halibut I’d ever made. I have to give partial credit to the freshness of the halibut (Thrifty’s is pushing halibut these days… advertising 24 hours from line to dine kind of thing)

I’ve never cooked with anise before. I have been wary of the overt licorice flavour and not sure what would compliment it (or what it would ruin)