Chocolate chip cookies.

These delectable treats were made with molasses and browned butter.

Recipe adapted from Take A Megabite.

My cookies looked nothing like hers. Her cookies can spread out thinly and evenly, while I tried forming dough balls and all I got were thick cookies that heaped in the centre.

I thought melting the butter was supposed to make them spread magically before they cook, but okay.

So I got fed up and shape them in flat rounds instead. If you made them as I did, you get about 4 dozen of cookies from this recipe!

I also greatly reduced the amount of sugar, from a heaping 330 g granulated + brown sugars, I used only 110 g. But I dare assure you, this is sweet enough.

Peanut Butter Cookies.

The little things of happiness.

Having finished the button mushrooms, this time I used shiitake - my all-time-favourite fragrant mushrooms - to make an Omelette. Haven't been eating one for long, I can take on one serving and that alone can be my dinner.

I referred to Epicurious because I don't like the addition of milk in savoury egg dishes.

The filling contained: one shiitake mushroom and a quarter of red onion, sautéed, seasoned. Two eggs were used. And due to some rumour my mom forbids me from adding the salt in the eggs prior to cooking, thus I used soy sauce instead. Garnished with a dash of Italian herbs.

Oh, my folding failed! xD

The scent of chocolate.

Homemade Toll House cookies.

It was intended to be big. Not just big, it's big big. But we failed in the consistency of size.

Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.com, adjusted to lessen sweetness.

Our version was:
225 g butter
Half a cup white sugar
2 medium eggs
A hint of vanilla extract
250 g all-purpose flour (more was added for desired texture)
55 g MILO powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Half a teaspoon cream of tartar
100 g each semisweet & milk chocolate, roughly chopped
Chopped hazelnuts
Crushed almond flakes

Cookies were baked in 5 batches, 20 minutes for each under 180 degree Celcius. :)

Much loved and frequently grabbed was the cookie dough, a popularly commercialised ice cream flavour.

And the next picture shows you the overall presentation of a randomly picked cookie.

The sweetness was perfectly tolerable, even to elders. (Cup used to measure sugar was a 300 ml size.)

By the way, MILO is a great substitution to cocoa powder. Bonus? Less bitterness. ;)