My Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I had the urge of baking cookies because all the post on my pinterest was all about sweets and cookies. So I thought what the heck lets do some baking and I also promised my son I would bake some cookies for him and would be ready when he comes home from school. 

All I had to get at the grocery store was flour, chocolate, and brown sugar. The rest I had sitting in my kitchen. These were easy to make and smell great when walking into my kitchen, fresh baked cookies. I've baked about 50 of these cookies. My husband loved it. They were chewy, yummy, and tasty. I made a lot and gave some to my son's teachers. My son is begging me to make more.

2 1/4 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 stk butter, at room temperature

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 medium egg

1/3 cup apple sauce (The only apple sauce I could find was a brand from Nora naturlig lett with mer frukt, mindre sukker eple m/biter. In English which means Natural light with more fruit and less sugar)

2/3 cup peanut butter 

2 1/2 cups chocolate, chopped into bite size

In a bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set a side.

In another bowl add butter (I melted my butter in a saucepan before mixing other ingredients together) sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, whisk until well combined and creamy. 

Add in egg and apple sauce. Mix well. 

Then stir in flour mixture, stir until well combine. 

Stir in chopped chocolates and peanut butter. 

Drop about a tablespoon each of the cookie batter onto a non greased baking sheet.

Place the tray in the center of the oven and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 6-8 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool for couple minutes. Then it's ready to be gobble down. 

Ponyo, Power Ranger, Snoopy, Tobias sandwiches.......

 Ponyo Sandwiches

These are some of the fun sandwiches I've made during this past week. 

 Red Power ranger sandwiches

 Snoopy Sandwiches

Tobias Funke open face sandwiches

More of my fun sandwiches that I've made click on the links below and check it out. Feel free to scroll through my blog I've made a lot of fun sandwiches. I just haven't categorized it.

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/03/fun-sandwiches-i-made-for-my-kids.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/more-of-my-kids-fun-lunches.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/blog-post_19.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/09/lightning-mcqueen.html

Cat in the Hat

Starting off American Mother's day weekend. The best part of being a mom to Norwegian/American kids is we get to celebrate mother's day twice a year. Every mom in the whole world should be appreciated because all the hard work and sacrifice they do for their children. I have to say I am so grateful and blessed to have such wonderful kids. I love being a mom. Time flies by fast and sometimes I wish all my kids were babies. I really miss that period when all were so tiny. My son will start 2nd grade this fall. My daughters are 2 and 3 years old and just couple more years they will start school. The lunch theme I made today was Cat in the Hat. One of my favorite childhood author Dr Seuss. My kids are fans too. I made cat in the hat out of 2 slices of bread with salami, ham, nori, and bacon cream cheese. 

More of my fun sandwiches that I've made click on the links below and check it out. Feel free to scroll through my blog I've made a lot of fun sandwiches. I just haven't categorized it.

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/03/fun-sandwiches-i-made-for-my-kids.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/more-of-my-kids-fun-lunches.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/blog-post_19.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/09/lightning-mcqueen.html

My glazed recipe

I have not been updating my blog. I have been busy but I will try my best to update once a week. I have been making a lot of great dishes and fun sandwiches but I had no time to post. Next week is Norwegian Independence Day on May 17th. It's all about grilling just like July 4th. I will probably be making some grill beef sticks and grilled crispy chicken breast, and I was asked I should make my homemade coleslaw. That's what I might do. 

Anyways this is one of my family's favorite. It's all about my glaze, glazed ham. It's a sweet tangy taste. There are different kinds of glaze that I make when I'm preparing roast ham, beef, chicken, etc. 

1/2 cup Maine Maple Syrup or any real maple syrup. I always use my Maine one.

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon ketchup

2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

1 tablespoon seasoning sauce

2 1/2 kilo Danish smoked roast ham. (I bought my ham while in Sweden because it's much more affordable)

In a bowl mix and whisk all ingredients well. Use the glaze on smoke roast ham. The last half hour when the ham is almost done, brush the glaze all around and bake again in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for another 15-30 minutes. Remove from oven. Let rest for 10 minutes before slicing. Served with steamed vegetables and boiled potatoes. 

Stir fry ground pork with bok choy and rice flake

Something quick and easy for dinner. Stir fried ground pork with bok choy and rice flake.

I bought most of my ingredients at the Asian Market. They have awesome and great quality of fresh produce. I just love going there. I was craving for some noodle dish today. So I drove all the way to Hoang Asia Mat at Sandvika. 

Ingredients

1 medium onion, chopped

3 clove garlic, minced

1/2 to 1 tablespoon red curry paste

1 tablespoon fresh chopped coriander

1/2 cup fresh bean sprouts

1 large bok choy, chopped

1 package rice flake

1 package ground pork

oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce 

sugar

cornstarch

black pepper

turmeric powder

Minced garlic, chopped onion, chopped fresh coriander

 Fresh bean sprouts and fresh bok choy

 A package of Rice Flake 

 400g Ground Pork. I seasoned with oyster sauce, salt, pepper, seasoning sauce, corn starch, and turmeric powder.

 In a skillet on high heat add 1 tablespoon coconut oil, when oil is hot add minced garlic, chopped onions

 Stirred in a tablespoon red curry paste

 Stir in seasoned ground pork, mix well, cook until tender for 7 minutes

 Add in fresh bok choy

 Stir well, add 1 tablespoon seasoning sauce/soy sauce, 2 tablespoons fish sauce, and 1 tablespoon sugar. Stir and mix well, lower heat, let simmer for 10 minutes

Mean while cook the rice flake and drain

 Stir cooked rice flake into the ground pork mixture. Add in fresh bean sprouts and fresh chopped coriander. Bring heat back to medium. Seasoned with a little more seasoning sauce, fish sauce, a little sugar,  ground black pepper. Add in chopped fresh Chinese spring onions. Stir and cook for another 4 minutes.

 I served a little of stir fried dish with steamed rice and Asian style salmon.

Or served with a side of my homemade pork springrolls

Sheriff in a lunch box

This is for my son's lunch tomorrow. Earlier I had made Tow Mater and Lightning McQueen sandwiches. Today I had made him The Sheriff sandwich from the movie Disney Pixar Car. The Sheriff sandwich is made with bologna, Gouda cheese, salami, cheddar, nori, mayonnaise with 2 slices of bread shape into a car, served with side salad. 

 Didn't take too long to make. 

More of my fun sandwiches that I've made click on the links below and check it out. Feel free to scroll through my blog I've made a lot of fun sandwiches. I just haven't categorized it.

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/03/fun-sandwiches-i-made-for-my-kids.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/more-of-my-kids-fun-lunches.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/10/blog-post_19.html

http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/09/lightning-mcqueen.html

Fresh Covered Strawberries

 Fresh strawberries + Cheesecake filling + Crumbled Graham Crackers = Heaven in your mouth. 

 I made these for myself for my Friday snack which I needed with what I went through this week. I had to make extras because I knew my family would love these. My husband said to me, " I would only have just one." Instead he had 5. Both my girls loved my cheesecake filling. My husband and I love cheesecake. We both agree Norwegian cheesecake can not beat American Cheesecake. It's not as sweet and honestly it taste bland.

Simple Cheesecake filling

1/2 cup Philadelphia cream cheese

1/2 cup sour cream

1/3 cup sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

In a bowl mix all ingredients and whisk well with an electric whisk until smooth and fluffy. One at a time take fresh strawberries dip into the cheesecake filling and coat with very fine crumble Graham crackers. Serve with extra cheesecake filling as dip.