A beloved family member has been quite ill of late, so when he was released from an extended stay in hospital a couple of days ago, I decided to bake him a batch of biccies to welcome him home.
As I am a sucker for all things chocolate, I had my heart set on double choc-chip biccies. But shock-horror, I was all out. Ahhhh!
I’d poured over my recipe books for hours deciding which one was going to be the perfect recipe to make… but when I realised there was no chocky…
I had a major conniption (justified I thought, you know what it’s like when you have your heart set on something!)… when I had calmed down a bit I did an inventory of what I actually did have, and let me tell you, it was pretty paltry.
So, with my pathetic list of possible ingredients, I started going over my recipe books again looking for something else I could bake with the meagre supplies I had…. and these are the results.
Sesame and tahini biccies (I told you things were grim).
Can I just say, they were surprisingly fine eating. A little unexpected on the palate, a bit like peanut butter, but still very very more-ish. And, what’s more, the recipe yielded about 60 biccies!
So, he adored them (as did most here at work), which after my huge and needless tanty, made me feel much better about the whole thing!
I often feel like cooking something and then find that I am missing a vital ingredient.Now I have discovered that if I google “recipes ingredients”, up pop heaps of sites that will supply recipes to use whatever ingredients I happen to have on hand. (Within limits,I suppose.) This is especially useful if you are trying to empty the pantry before a trip and you get to try some new tastes.
It just goes to show, some of the best things come from being spontaneous and creative. I’m sure they were just yummy.
Great job!
i want to know if sanbody speak spanish there thanks,liliana