Jennifer Andrew

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recipe box | brown butter bourbon chocolate chip cookies

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The other day, I was invited to a cookout party that was liquor themed. No restrictions, the food or beverages just had to contain liquor. I thought about making some bourbon baked apple ice cream until I remembered that ice cream takes two days to make! Then I did some research on boozy cupcakes and found some interesting recipes, including a mint julep cupcake one. I guess I just wasn’t in the mood for cupcakes because I continued to look up recipes until I was in the baking aisle of the grocery store.

And then I came across a recipe for brown butter bourbon chocolate chip cookies from Bakergirl. Ummmm, okay! It took me a while to get all of the ingredients because, hey, I’m no baker lady. The recipe called for cake flour. I had no idea what cake flour was and it took me ten minutes to find it even though it was right in front of me. I need to start baking more. Anyway, the cake flour made these cookies giant and delicious.

I had to bake these as quickly as possible because I got a late start, but chilling the dough for an hour before baking it was a very important step – not one to be skipped. They ended up being a big hit at the party and when I got home, I brought the rest to my new neighbors. I met a ton of new people that night and while it may have just been circumstantial, I like to think it was because of the cookies. ;)

Cookies are my favorite food in the world, and cookies with bourbon turned out to super delicious. I wouldn’t call them “boozy” since the liquor is cooked out of it. According to Bakergirl, it just leaves a dark caramel-vanilla flavor.

Do you like adding bourbon or any other liquor to your kitchen creations?

 

ps. My love for cookies and my love for Carly Rae Jepsen were combined in this brilliant masterpiece. Feast your eyes upon “Share it Maybe” by Cookie Monster. You’re welcome, I guess.

:)

recipe box | fig, carmelized onion, & goat cheese pizza

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This pizza post is long overdue. A couple of weeks ago, my roomie sent me this recipe for a fresh fig, caramelized onion, and goat cheese pizza. And then we made it that night. Simple as that!

Yum, yum, yum! We ended up covering it in baby arugula. Along with the pizza, we enjoyed red wine and way too many episodes of The Hills. Because sometimes you’ve just gotta watch it.

I looovvee pizza and I’m always looking for new recipes. Have any unusual favorites?

Recipe Box | Roasted Cinnamon-Sugar Delicata Squash

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On Thanksgiving, my aunt gave me a bunch of fruits and vegetables from her garden! One was a delicata squash. I didn’t know how I should cook it, so I looked up recipes and came across one for roasted cinnamon-ginger delicata squash from Averie Cooks. Since I didn’t have any ginger, I decided to go for cinnamon-sugar instead. It was so tasty! I’m definitely bookmarking this for future dinner ideas.

I followed this recipe, minus the ginger, and I added a little more sugar. They turned out to be wonderful lightly sweetened squash half-moons. Yum.

Do you have a favorite way of cooking squash?

Also, I just signed up for bi-monthly Farm Fresh To You deliveries and I received a red kuri squash. Any suggestions on how to eat one of those? I’m new to this. :)

Recipe Box | Thai Curry with Chicken and Vegetables

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Thai food is probably my favorite type of food. (Besides pizza, because come on.) Last week, I visited my friends Ryan and Alissa. I gave Ryan photos from the wedding we shot a couple weeks ago, and Alissa gave me a lesson in Thai cooking. We made curry with chicken and vegetables. Most of the credit goes to Alissa. I mean, I chopped up some mushrooms. But that’s really all.

Ryan just got the fanciest new camera. A Canon 6D. It is so cool. He took most of these pictures, but I picked up the camera a few times. We put it on a tripod and took pictures from Ryan’s cell phone. What the heck?! It was amazing.

We made sticky rice to go with the curry. It was a delicious meal that I’m going to make again and again. Dinner was followed with pumpkin ice cream and a ton of youtube videos. We think Bruno Mars is the best.

For the recipe, check out Alissa’s blog post from almost a year ago. I don’t know how it took us this long to cook Thai food together!

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