Polly's Pillows and Homemade Chili

Nothing beats the homemade Chili with this Puffy fried Pillows.  It becomes the primary and chili is its accompaniment.  

Drizzle honey all over and scoop in some chili and just enjoy every bite.  

 

Ingredients are sooo simple! - Flour, some EVOO, salt to taste, and Water!   Mix. Cover and rest the dough for 10 min.  Divide the dough into fair size.  

On a floured surface - Roll the dough out nice and smooth and evenly. 

TIP:  Roll out the dough piece nice and smooth and evenly and "Bobbing" the dough during frying is the key to help it Puff Up!

No yeast, no baking powder.   Just simple ingredients of flour, oil, and water to mix.

Just watch it puff up in hot frying oil when you bobble it.

Even the ones that's half puffed are just as welcomed by family members.  It's one of our family favorites.

Michael's Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Michael's Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies 

1 stick Butter - 4 oz very soft

1/2 C sugar

1/2 C Brown sugar

1 egg room temperature

1 tsp vanilla

1 C  flour or  plus 1/4 C flour 

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 C chocolate chip cookies

Method:  preheat oven to 350'F

Cream sugar with butter with spatula;  add egg and vanilla; blend in quickly with hand blender - barely 30 seconds. 

Shift all dry ingredients .. Add flour in slowly -  the dough is pasty when pressed together - not dry dough.  

Bake at 350'F - 8 to 10-1/2 min

Edge should be browned. 

Tip(s):

Dropping the dough on light color Silpat, 2 in apart.  Without cookie sheet, place the Silpat with cookie doughs on it directly on the baking rack sitting at bottom 2nd.  When using darker colored Silpat, the browning of bottom of the cookies are faster.

What is so good about this batch is the nice shiny crispy top layer.  Chewy center, nice browned bottom.

Myer Lemon-Glazed Catfish - BlueApron dish

This is our photo journal of one of BlueApron dish package we cooked.  

I couldn't eat the catfish but my family enjoyed it.