Balls and Bollywood
I’ve been a mess all day today.
I’m not too sure why, though it could be because it’s almost finals week and I’m psyching myself out. But that’s just a sad excuse.
Not sad enough for failed apple-craisin cookies balls, though!
You see, I feel like the only genuinely productive thing I did today was go to the gym. However, my shin splints were decidedly cruel to me and I had to play around on the elliptical instead, which means even my workout wasn’t that productive.
#firstworldproblems
Then, I came back, decided I wasn’t hungry for lunch, and ate an apple instead.
Which of course, inspired me to re-try this recipe on Sweet Tooth, Sweet Life. Courtney makes them look so good, plus I had made them before with relative success…
However, for some reason, everything turns out better when I am not under the pressure of posting something for my blog.
And my cookies (made with different substitutions) came out to be crumbly balls. They still tasted great, though!
#firstworldproblems2.0
I seem to have an inherent fear of recipes, though, so I’ll post the substitutions I made, even though I don’t recommend you following them since, ya know, the recipe didn’t turn out all that great.
(What am I saying? My mind is numb.)
In a small bowl, 2 cups of flour, with 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, and a healthy tbsp of pumpkin spice.
1 1/2 cups of finely chopped apple and 1/2 cup of craisins
In a separate bowl, 1/2 cup of shortening, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, and 3/4 cups sweetener (like stevia or Splenda)
Creamed together with 2 egg whites
Dump in half of the flour mixture, then the apples and craisins, (and here’s what probably screwed up the recipe…) 1/4 cup of buttermilk, and then the remaining half of the flour mixture
I got really tired of rolling balls in my tablespoon so I ended up patting down the rest of the dough in an 8x8. Yay for laziness!
And coincidentally, by the time the cookies balls were ready (after 15 minutes at 375 degrees), I was hungry and pining for lunch…
And well, what do you know - look what we have here!
Naturally, I ate half of them in one sitting and then had to pass out in a sugar-induced coma.
Since finals are next week after all, I got my butt out of bed for a little bit of studying, but decided I was hungry again… so we rallied the troops and headed out to Indian Flavors for dinner.
What good looking people.
Mmm-hmm.
These things have to happen, you know.
Darling Chini-beanie!
That’s two orders of chicken tikka masala, and one dal, plus three orders of naan.
I went with the aloo gobi and naan.
Which was perfectly satisfying, albeit a little salty and not at all spicy like I had requested. Oh well.
Oh, and their perfectly fluffy, soft, warm naan!
As much as I loooove Indian food, I tend to only get it once in a while since the curries are usually super rich and like the masalas, are cream-based sauces. If you stick with an onion-based or tomato-based curry, it’s not as heavy, which means not leaving the restaurant feeling like a bloated whale.
All that said and done, Indian food + me = tru luv.
