Advisory Cookies

This is modified from Jami's mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe. I made cookies for my advisees' birthdays their freshman year. Jami helped out a couple of times, and due to ingredient availability issues (oh no, we're out of butter!) she developed a new and all-together even more delicious version.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 2 (+ optional 1/3) cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Equipment

• stand mixer
• baking sheets
• spatula
• cooling racks

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F/177˚C.
2. Cream butter, oil, sugars, and vanilla extract.
3. Add eggs to creamed sugar mixture.
4. Mix remaining dry ingredients together and add slowly to wet ingredients (add extra flour if dough seems too loose).
5. Add chocolate chips.
6. Spoon heaping tablespoons of dough onto baking sheets
7. Bake for 9 minutes.
8. Makes between 36 and 45 cookies (depending on size)

This recipe provided at Brenda's special request. Happy baking!

Horrid Breakfast Drink

This is my breakfast most days, especially workdays when I wake up as late as possible and chug this stuff with all my old-man pills on the drive to work. It's more like medicine than food. Not recommended, but it does its job.

Ingredients

• 2 heaping scoops vanilla flavored powdered whey protein
• 1 heaping teaspoon ground flax meal
• filtered water
• hot water
• 1 heaping teaspoon raw powdered cacao (cocoa powder, but fancy)
• 2 heaping teaspoon ends matcha powder (yes, the handle of a teaspoon)
• some ice cubes
• maple syrup (very optional, and not recommended)

Equipment

• regular old teaspoon
• 27 oz. Klean Kanteen
• glass or mug

1. Dump whey powder and flax meal into the Klean Kanteen (or other similarly sized, sealable, non-reactive container).
2. Fill container less than halfway with filtered water, seal, and shake hard.
3. Dump matcha powder and cacao powder into mug/glass of hot water and stir.
4. Add hot water mixture to container (along with maple syrup if you want this to be palatable, but don't mind loosing out on the supposed weight loss benefit of 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking).
5. Add enough ice cubes to raise water level to just below the neck of the container.
6. Seal and agitate some more.
7. Heaven help you.

At one point I was adding the Nativas superfood blend of hemp, maca, and cacao (thanks to a price mix-up at Wholefoods), but it made my mouth raw. I suspect the hemp, but would have to try it or the maca separately to be sure. I plan on adding freeze dried nettle leaf to the mix next time we do a bulk order from Frontier.

Easy Chocolate Pudding

I don't know where Jami found this pudding recipe, but it's easy and fast, and I like it just fine.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 3 tbsp corn starch
• a pinch of salt
• 2 cups milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1. Mix the dry ingredients.
2. Whisk in the milk.
3. Stir over very low heat until the pudding begins to thicken.
4. Add the vanilla extract.

Options: Try adding a little cinnamon.