PASSOVER Crinkle Cookies

1/2 Stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter or nondairy margarine, room temperature
3/4 Cup packed light brown sugar
2 Large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 Ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted
1/2 Cup matza meal
1/4 Teaspoon coarse salt
4 Large egg whites
8 Ounces chocolate chip

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter or margarine and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Add chocolate, matzo meal and salt. Beat until mixture just comes together. (It should be thick.)

In a clean bowl and with a whisk attachment, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into chocolate mixture. Add chocolate chips, and stiff. Let stand 15 minutes.

Scoop 2-inch balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until set, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on sheet on a wire rack, for 2 minutes. Transfer cookies to rack, and let cool completely.


So yes, I baked these for Passover this year and OMG they are good! Messy to bake but then, I make a mess making toast so it's not an issue.

Matzo Matza Matzoh Matzah Pie Crust

Passover is a holiday that I never considered baking for. This year though, I noticed my Pinterest feed showing a stream of desserts for Passover. This planted the seed. Then in Martha Stewart Living I found a pie crust made of Matza (spell it as you choose.)

Martha suggested some sort of curd filling but I went with apples. It ended up being more of a baked apple with crumble type dish but I thought it was quite tasty. Originally I thought I might try strawberries but there were no really good strawberry sales that week and I had apples. I'm thinking lemon pie filling would be amazing in this crust.

Matza crust, a definite keeper.

Oven Pancake

This is the second recipe from Light Menus that I want to try. It's a pancake, need I say more?

Fresh Herb Scones

I found a cookbook called Light Menus at the pool. I pick up ALL cookbooks, or magazines with recipes. I save the books for a friend of mine who collects cookbooks. There were only 2 recipes in the book that I want to try. This one I picked because A. I like scones and B. I have 2 large Rosemary plants in my yard that grow like weeds...which is good because weeds are almost all I can grow.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Oat Bars

I gave these a whirl today and they are quite yummy. I didn't bother with gluten-free oatmeal because I am pro gluten. Also didn't bother with vegan chocolate chips. I had some semi-sweet and white chocolate swirl that I used. I may have added more than called for. Oops. But this is a nice snack. I like to have bar type food in the house in case I'm running around and need to stick something in my bag, just in case. I'm prone to shakes and chills occasionally if I haven't eaten. I'll freeze part of it just for that purpose.

Mushroom Quinoa Burger

Hello Strangers,

This blog has been dormant for a LONG time. I'm still busy with my Etsy shops, making that cute stuff for ChezChani and selling supplies on ChezChaniSupply. But I just don't have a whole lot to say about it.


Another thing I love to do is look at and collect recipes. I pick up magazines that people leave at the lending library at the pool and cut out quite a few which then pile up on my already piled up kitchen counter. So, how to organize?

My favourite way to organize online things is Pinterest. So I'm giving this a whirl. I'm posting the recipe here, then pinning it. BOOM!

Anyone is free to peek in here but really, this is all about me :-)

BTW I did make these and they are really good. I can see myself making them regularly instead of buying frozen veggie Burgers at Costco.

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