Somewhere there is a deity laughing at your KitchenGeek. Less than 3 weeks after this wonderful shiny new sites goes live, I’ve been told off. My blood pressure is down and the swelling in my gullet (caused by acid and caffeine) has gone down, but apparently my liver is developing the gentle marbling of a particularly appetising piece of ribeye steak.
And therein lies the problem. By choice, I eat lots of meat with gentle fat marbling; roasts with crackling; duck with – well duck with anything actually. And I don’t eat enough vegetables unless they are mashed or served with butter. So my Jeckyl and Hyde doctor has told me I need to lay off the saturated fats and start doing some exercise.
I did the only logical thing I could think of. I made cookies.
I’m not going to tell you how to make cookies if for no other reason than that I’m English and all the best cookies are American. What I’m going to do instead is tell you of a little discovery I made.
The brand “Betty Crocker” sell a chocolate chip cookie recipe which boasts “Just add water”.
Here’s a little tip for you… Ignore Betty. Her cookies don’t need any water. Not one drop. Instead of adding 2 tablespoons of water, add the zest of a large orange and two tablespoons of Amaretto instead. I then served it with a pint glass containing 2 shots of chocolate cream liquer, 2 shots of creme d’menthe and half a pint of skimmed milk.
Yeah… The diet starts tomorrow…
