Food and Nutrition 4-23-18
Hi everyone! Welcome to another year of "Food and Nutrition!" :D
In this article, I will be interviewing another NSA student about their cooking experiences.
In addition, I will feature one recipe each month and explain how to make it.
This month's interviewee is Lydia, the 9th grade representative.
Lydia's cooking experiences began about two years ago when she decided to make macaroni and cheese in order to help her mom.
Somehow, the macaroni ended up tasting so bad that no one could eat it, including Lydia.
At a more recent date, she decided make gluten free brownies for her mom. Everything seemed to be going well.
Lydia put the brownies in the oven, set a timer, and then went to play the piano, taking the timer with her.
About two minutes before the timer was supposed to go off, Lydia went check the brownies.
As soon as she came out of the piano room, Lydia smelled smoke and knew that something was wrong. The brownies were burnt.
In fact, they were so burnt that her dad had to use a hammer and screwdriver to pound/chisel the brownies out of the pan the next day. Although her cooking career had pretty rough start, Lydia has improved and been able to make foods such as chocolate chip cookies, scones, and biscuits.
Her advice to anyone who has had similar struggles is to keep on trying because your efforts to make something delicious will eventually pay off. :)
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies[edit | edit source]
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups chopped semisweet chocolate
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375F
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth
3. Beat in the eggs one at a time
4. Stir in the corn syrup, water, and vanilla
5. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt and stir into the peanut butter mixture
6. Fold in chocolate chunks
7. Drop by 1/4 cupfuls, 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
8. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven or until edges are golden.
9. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
That's all for this month! If you have any recipe suggestions or would like to be interviewed in a future article, please contact me. :)
See you next month!
Sources: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9996/chewy-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies/