Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Another great find in the US has been the chewy chocolate chip cookie.  The soft chewy cookie that just melts in your mouth.  I love Trader Joe's Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.  They are delicious.  One fine Friday evening I wanted to make and eat these cookies.  A little bit of research led me to Martha Stewart's Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.  The results were pretty awesome too.  Here are ingredients and instructions from the Martha Stewart site.

No Bake Chocolate Bark

An Amazing and super easy no bake chocolate treat for chocolate fans!  I even packed some and gave it to my friends Soudeh and Patty, when we met after a long time over dinner last night! oh so fun it is to meet with old friends and pick up right where you left off!  The dinner stretched over 4 hours :))

Chewy Coconut Cookies

In case  you don't know yet, I like to try all sorts of cuisines, though vegetarian or fish based food items only and cook/bake all cuisine types too.  Until I was India, my experiments were limited to cooking, due to lack of access to an oven and limited exposure to bakers.I don't think anyone in my family ever baked.  So when I landed in the land of opportunities, out of many opportunities that came my way, baking was one of them ... Americans love to bake and they are good at it too.. At gap intelligence, there are so many amazing bakers.  Cookies, cupcakes, brownies, cakes and so many other things! nom nom nom!

A Crappy Day Turned Around!

Well I was suppose to be with my co-workers in San Diego building a house.  gap intelligence recently joined hands with the San Diego chapter of Habitat for Humanity.   Since Salman Khan is a brand ambassador for Habitat for Humanity I really really really wanted to go to ......However, I woke up to a dishwasher water leakage, which has my kitchen floors and cabinets completely crapped out!  Hence, Here I am sitting at home in Irvine watching Food Network Star.

I decided to turn this day around and use my Gitts Rasmalai Mix.  Although I think I had the right measurements, the batter did not turn out well and hence the rasmalai discs did not turn out as discs.  Hence, that was the second crappy thing of the day.

However, I decided to make rasmalai, but from scratch.  I used Hetal and Anuja's recipe for two reasons -, actually three and in the following order:
1. They were the first ones to show up
2. I have used their Egg Roti recipe before and it worked
3. This recipe seemed pretty simple.

Right now my rasmalai is cooling in the fridge and I plan to enjoy it later tonight.    My blogging button is turned on for today so I guess you will see many more posts from me.

Enjoy!