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I've been making and tweaking a pound or two of these spiced nuts (cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves) for years to share with friends and family at Christmas, 3 years ago I got the idea to add some cayenne, so after a little more tweaking I found what I thought was a good balance, apparently everybody else thinks so, too. This year I made 10 lbs. and still have folks asking for them
 
JamieJ said:
That looks awesome @giovanni

We went on holiday to Naples and Sorrento and few years ago and had the best time. Our rule for the holiday was to have ice cream and pizza everyday.
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Sorrento is exceptionally beautiful. We had a priceless view of Vesuvio from our balcony (I will dig out a picture after the weekend). I remember an outdoor cafe overlooking the port/beach, and a curio shop where my wife shopped. Shipping back to the states was much cheaper back then.
Looking at @giovanni 's montanare brings back a lot of great memories of our trip. 😍
 
I'm going to let y'all in on the cookie. To me, all other cookies are trash. This is the cookie now. I tweaked the famous brown butter toffee chocolate chip recipe (as demonstrated by Rick Martinez) by throwing a few tablespoons of powdered milk into the butter while browning. Also I used Lindt 70% bars instead of the suggested discs (could only find them in bulk) and reserved some larger pieces of skor bar to stick to the bottom of each dough ball to ensure some toffee melted to the pan on every cookie. Toffee, dough, Jacobsen salt. These are the reason my nieces and nephews like me.

Unrelated to my own cooking but that Olympia Provisions Saucisson Sec is very very good.

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I've been making passatelli lately since it's gotten real cold in Krakow.

It's a dish from central Italy. You make a dough of breadcrumbs, egg, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper, nutmeg. Then you squeeze it into beef stock with a potato ricer, cutting the dough into 2-3cm pieces. Cook for a couple of minutes until they rise.
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
I'm going to let y'all in on the cookie. To me, all other cookies are trash. This is the cookie now. I tweaked the famous brown butter toffee chocolate chip recipe (as demonstrated by Rick Martinez) by throwing a few tablespoons of powdered milk into the butter while browning. Also I used Lindt 70% bars instead of the suggested discs (could only find them in bulk) and reserved some larger pieces of skor bar to stick to the bottom of each dough ball to ensure some toffee melted to the pan on every cookie. Toffee, dough, Jacobsen salt. These are the reason my nieces and nephews like me.

Unrelated to my own cooking but that Olympia Provisions Saucisson Sec is very very good.

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Ok I was just saying earlier that peanut butter blossoms and sand tarts are the only valid cookies but I'd try this
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
I'm going to let y'all in on the cookie. To me, all other cookies are trash. This is the cookie now. I tweaked the famous brown butter toffee chocolate chip recipe (as demonstrated by Rick Martinez) by throwing a few tablespoons of powdered milk into the butter while browning. Also I used Lindt 70% bars instead of the suggested discs (could only find them in bulk) and reserved some larger pieces of skor bar to stick to the bottom of each dough ball to ensure some toffee melted to the pan on every cookie. Toffee, dough, Jacobsen salt. These are the reason my nieces and nephews like me.

Unrelated to my own cooking but that Olympia Provisions Saucisson Sec is very very good.

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Gave these cookies a try, most excellent! EDIT: Being a southern boy I of course replaced some of the chocolate wafers with chopped pecans
 
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Mentaltossflycoon said:
Just looked up the sand tarts and they're super similar to an Austrian Christmas cookie I also made called vanillekipferl. Those are crazy good.
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Hmm I just looked up sand tarts real quick since you said that and found a lot of shit that are NOT sand tarts. I'm talking about the Pennsylvania dutch sand tarts. Not this other bullshit that looks like butterballs
 
Harry Klippton said:
Hmm I just looked up sand tarts real quick since you said that and found a lot of shit that are NOT sand tarts. I'm talking about the Pennsylvania dutch sand tarts. Not this other bullshit that looks like butterballs
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My Ex's Brother-in-Law's family was from Pennsylvania, his Mom used to make them, hers were rolled out thin and cut in Christmas shapes, decorated with everything from colored sugar, to pecan halves and almond slivers, the ones with almond slivers were round and reminded me of sand dollars

Edit: She also made Marzipan Cookies which were also excellent!
 
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Mentaltossflycoon said:
Sometimes I make grilled cheese in the middle of the night. Sometimes I grate too much cheddar so I smash it on the outside and toast it into the bread. Don't worry, I'm intoxicated enough to fully enjoy this.View attachment 21187
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I wish I could apprieciate how delicious that must be for a cheese lover, but unfortunately I had a bad experience with macaroni & cheese at a young age, I must have had a virus and got violently ill just after consuming it. To this day If I get a good whiff of mac & chesse I begin to gag. Over the years I was able to develop a taste for mozzerella so I can eat pizza and such, even with a little of other cheeses blended in, but that's about it.

EDIT: Strangely my favorite chip is Cheeto's and cracker is Cheez-it, there's just something about real cheese that rolls my stomach
 
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Barry said:
I wish I could apprieciate how delicious that must be for a cheese lover, but unfortunately I had a bad experience with macaroni & cheese at a young age, I must have had a virus and got violently ill just after consuming it. To this day If I get a good whiff of mac & chesse I begin to gag. Over the years I was able to develop a taste for mozzerella so I can eat pizza and such, even with a little of other cheeses blended in, but that's about it.

EDIT: Strangely my favorite chip is Cheeto's and cracker is Cheez-it, there's just something about real cheese that rolls my stomach
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I used to work with a woman who disliked cheese. Not vegan, not intolerant, not allergic, just... thought it tasted bad. I found this waaaaay confusing. Totally understand the bad experience thing though. I haven't had chicken fried steak since IHOP gave me food poisoning in like 1993. Should've just had the pancakes....
 
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