Deep dark chocolate cookies- for one!

I love the recipes I've found online for small servings of dishes. Sometimes I crave cookies but I don't want to be surrounded by a big batch, if you know what I mean:) My recipe is adapted from this recipe of a fantastic single serving chocolate chip cookie! I changed a few things, including making it a little less sweet :) 

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons butter

2 Tablespoons sugar (white or brown)

Pinch of salt 

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg yolk (if you double the recipe, use the whole egg rather than two yolks:)

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 cup special dark cocoa

1/8 cup whole wheat flour

3 Tablespoons dark chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, cream together the butter, sugar, vanilla and egg yolk. 

Add the rest of the ingredients except for the chocolate chips and mix by hand until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Do not over-mix the batter unless you want a tougher, "cakey-er" texture:)

You can make one large cookie or up to five smaller cookies. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes. Let the cookie(s) cool on the pan for at least 5 minutes so it can continue to cook out of the oven. 

Happy anniversary, Calvin!

Photo by Lee Anne Havens  

I am so grateful to be celebrating 5 years of marriage to my sweetheart, Calvin. I can't imagine having a more thoughtful, generous, kind and loving partner. Our wedding day is such a happy memory for me; picture this: snow and wind outside, the cozy warmth of love and friendship inside old rock buildings in a little town surrounded by mountains, live music, good food, dancing....it was just SO much fun!

And marriage has been SO fun. I'm especially grateful this year to be celebrating for the first time with our little boy who is crawling around as I write!

Thank you, Calvin for being my truest friend and my one true love:) ❤️❤️❤️

A simple lunch

After a beautiful walk on the trails and quick trip to the library, Gus and I came home starving for lunch.

I got him settled in his chair with a few snacks and whisked together three eggs with a splash of buttermilk (I prefer cream but didn't have any on hand) and salt and pepper. I cooked a big omelette (with feta) for us to share and got some water boiling. Guys- I like boiled vegetables now! It's all Tamar Adler's fault! She is the author of the book, "An Everlasting Meal", where among other things, she extols the virtues of cooking with boiling water. I eat so much more cauliflower and broccoli since my boiling conversion because it's so much faster than roasting and I dislike raw crudités. I salt the water as Tamar would like you to and I prefer boiling medium size spears for about 4 minutes. The tough crunch is gone but they aren't mushy. Also- salt your eggs and veggies directly and I had a lemon on hand so I micro-planed some lemon zest over it all. It was so satisfying and felt so good for my body too. Broccoli is the original kale, don't you think? And I like it way better than kale even though I don't mind kale that much. Gus gobbled it up too! 

My baby got a hair cut!

Gus' hair has been growing like a weed! I loved his little curls but Calvin was concerned he looked wild and wanted to get a cut:) 

We scheduled an appointmwnt with my friend and the week leading up to it, I snapped way too many pictures of his long locks:)

Finally it was time to say goodbye to his baby hair:(

We got to Ashley's with Gus' favourite video cued up on our phone (Taylor Swift's "shake it off") and Ashley suggested Calvin get his hair done first so Gus could watch and get more comfortable. Then it was Gussy's turn!

Those curls!!!

But I can't deny he looks equally adorable with his short cut!

And when we got home, he seemed very pleased with the results!