by Cherie Carb

Chocolate Chip Cookies are one the most popular cookies ever. I love them when they are fresh out of the oven as do my kids and my husband.

Chocolate Chip Cookies are drop style cookie. They traditionally consist of a dough with brown sugar and white sugar and butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips in it.

Chocolate chip cookies have many variations. Some are m&m’s, oatmeal, and nuts. Some variations include white chocolate too, like white chocolate with macadamia nut for example.

Mrs. Fields make a cookie-wich that I love. It is two cookies with frosting in the middle! Talk about sugar rush and calories! Thankfully for me our Mrs. Fields stand is no longer at the local mall. :)
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies”.

The reason for the Toll House name is Ruth Graves Wakefield had purchased an inn called the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield.

Built on a toll road, the inn was a toll booth of sorts, a restaurant and an inn. Folks would pay tolls there like we pat tolls today.

In the 1940’s Ruth Graves Wakefield wrote a cookbook based on the years cooking at the inn. It was a best seller called “Ruth Wakefield’s Recipes: Tried and True”.

The Toll House Inn was sold in the 1960’s. It went through some changes, was sold in the 1970’s, restored to it’s original form. And it burned down in the 1980’s.

Ruth Graves Wakefield lived til 1977. Her grave is in Massachusetts.

In 1997 it was proposed that the Chocolate Chip Cookie be the official cookie of Massachusetts.

Each year billions of variations of this cookie are eaten by folks around the world. We owe Ruth Graves Wakefield a big thank-you for such a classic treat.

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Hey! I intend to present a series of GF/CF recipes showing a range of naturally GF/CF dishes from around the world. This recipe was told by one of the many parents I have met, originating from India. Pakoras are fried chick peas-flour based vegetables or meat snack. This is perfect served as a starter, snack, to take cold in a lunch box, or served for lunch with a salad. They can be prepared in advance and frozen. Pakoras are commonly served in Indian restaurants as starter and are an …

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Low Carbohydrate Vegetables

by Joy Mitchell

Any diet that asks you to go low carbohydrate and use only low carbohydrate vegetables is saying that you need to hunt for vegetables that are low in carbohydrates. You need to use these vegetables in stead of your regular vegetables. There are many great tasting things that you can do with low carb vegetables.

They can be used in the different diet recipes or used for salads. They are great by themselves as healthy snacks and you can also blend them for a nutritious smoothie. The many websites that give recipes for low carbohydrate cooking and meals might have some recipes that will allow you to use your low carbohydrate vegetables in meals.

Imagine producing a magnificent meal using only low carb foods. You can keep a magnificent side dish full of low carbohydrate vegetables that have been transformed into a delicious salad. This salad can be garnished with many interesting foods that are also low carbohydrate but taste great by themselves as well.

For example, you could make a salad from low carb vegetables that include boneless beef, top sirloin steak, fresh lemon juice, gourmet salad greens, medium plum tomatoes, ranch or blue cheese dressing. You can make a seasoning for this salad from dried oregano, garlic cloves and pepper.

As you can see, there are many ways that you can combine your low carb vegetables with other foods to make superb meals for you and others to eat. The main thing to remember is not to put foods like a heavy French dressing on your low carb vegetables. This will turn your nutritious low carb vegetables into something heavy.

There are times|instances| in your low carb cooking when you can make use of only one of the low carb vegetables to give you a fantastic dish that looks mouth-watering. This type of low carb recipe will call for only a low carbohydrate vegetable like aubergine. This vegetable is very versatile and you can use it in a variety of ways.

When you decide to eat low carb vegetables like this you take your cooking into another realm of good food. The many low carb recipes that you can find on the Internet, will let you make great dishes with your low carb vegetables. After all, low carb just means eating other types of vegetables and showing your taste buds low carb meals.

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