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Peanut Butter chocolate chip cookies – a smile in every bite.

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“Pull up a chair and grab a plate! Everyone’s welcome at 10 Garden Street.” Felicita Sala

Hi there,

Recently it was my granddaughter’s birthday. One of the presents we gave her is an endearing book called “What’s Cooking at 10 Garden Street” by Felicita Sala.

If you have a young child in your life, run (do not walk) out and buy this beautiful book. It is the story of the residents of an apartment building. Every page contains someone of a different ethnic background preparing a dish, accompanied by the recipe. The recipes can easily be prepared by a child with supervision. The book’s last page is a table with everyone from the apartment building seated and sharing their food.

Now my Maya is a tiny little thing with a huge sweet tooth. So it came as no surprise she wanted to make cookies. So we talked about the meaning of the book as we creamed butter with peanut butter and had a wonderful afternoon of bonding.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

  • !/3 cup crunchy peanut butter
  • 1 stick of softened butter
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 egg
  • 1 and 1/4 cups of flower
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2/3 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

  1. Beat together the butter, peanut butter, and vanilla until fluffy
  2. Beat in the egg
  3. Add sugar, flour, salt and baking soda
  4. Add the chocolate chips
  5. Mix the dough on a lightly floured surface and form into a log shape
  6. Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours
  7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  8. cut the log into 1/2 inch rounds
  9. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden but still soft

I hope you find a child to share this book.

Talk soon, ❤️💕 Bernadette

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21 responses to “Peanut Butter chocolate chip cookies – a smile in every bite.”

  1. 💜 Horrible Little Brats; so much better than ‘Grown Ups’ EveryOne

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  3. the Painted Apron – Life is all about creativity for me, as long as I'm creating something I am happy! I hope I will inspire your daily life and give you ideas for your own wonderful creations!
    the Painted Apron says:

    Special memories for both of you! Peanut Butter and chocolate, a marriage made in heaven!
    Jenna

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  5. Darlene – British Columbia, Canada – Writer of children's stories, short stories and travel articles. https://twitter.com/#!/supermegawoman http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=201634059868404&id=631897250&ref=notif&notif_t=like#!/pages/Darlene-Foster-Writer/362236842733
    Darlene says:

    I will certainly be looking up this book. Your granddaughter is delightful and, look how proud she is with her baking.

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  6. Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen – I'm a writer, cook, gardener, photographer, poet, quilter, and accomplished daydreamer. I'm also a wife, mother, grandmother, sister. cousin, aunt, and friend, no particular order on any given day. I've been a writer all my life, newspaper reporter and columnist, radio news writer, and magazine contributor, and poet and short-story writer as the spirit moves. Now, I turn my attention to my cookbook, the blog, and a cooking column "Memorable Meals," which runs in our county newspaper. Besides my family, I love dogs, cats, good coffee, and my never-dwindling pile of books I intend to read. Our family ran a small Vermont Inn for 18 years, with our focus on local, organic ingredients. After many years of daily serving up of our local delicacies, cooking classes, and catering, we are now only open for special events, and the odd cooking class as the spirit moves me. We also host musicians and artists, having helped produce a musical festival and other musical events for nearly 20 years. Many incredible artists have found a place at our table. Wonderful experiences, we will treasure always. My family and friends are my practice subjects. With a family that includes nut, peanut, tree fruit, and vegetable allergies, gluten intolerance, dairy intolerance, vegetarians, vegans, heart conscious, and a couple of picky eaters, there has to be a few quick tricks in the book to keep everyone fed and happy! Personally, I do not eat red meat or most dairy (usually) for health reasons, making the occasional exception at Thanksgiving and Christmas or our anniversary if the duck is locally raised. I do eat fish and seafood, so I try to come up with alternatives and substitutions when available. I serve local organic eggs and cheeses to my family who can tolerate dairy (My husband recently had a heart attack, and I need to watch my own cholesterol so I am careful, but have been known to let a little piece of really good cheese accidentally fall on my plate!). I believe strongly that eating in a way that is good for our planet is also good for our bodies! I cook by the seasons and draw on inspiration from the strong and talented women in my family who came before me, as well as the youth in the family who look at the world with fresh eyes. Food links us all, whether sharing a meal, cooking it together, or writing about it for others to enjoy. I love taking an old recipe and giving it a modern spin, especially if I can make it a littler healthier and use foods that are kinder to the Earth and to our bodies. I believe strongly in sustainable, delicious eating of whole foods, and the wonderful flavors we have at our fingertips! And finally, I love conversing with all the talented cooks and chefs out there who dot the globe! It's a wonderful, world full of culinary pen pals, and I cherish them all! XXXOOO Dorothy
    Dorothy’s New Vintage Kitchen says:

    What a wonderful book, I will certainly look for it. And what a wonderful memory!

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  8. Time Traveler of Life – Where my Motor Home is! – Biography Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die. I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect? Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing. My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda. Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated. I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.” I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class. After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome. I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
    Time Traveler of Life says:

    What a great idea for sharing with neighbors. The book sounds great too!

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  9. these sound superb. i love PB and chocolate together. I had a gentle chuckle at your use of ‘flower’. Sounds very lyrical. i guess that is ‘plain’ flower? 🙂 If you are American, that would be all purpose i am thinking? We just say ‘plain’ here in australia.
    cheers
    sherry

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  10. Linda K – Hi, my name is Linda. I’m just a regular home cook in Toronto who decided to take a leap and start a cooking blog. My blog is meant to be a collection of my favorite recipes, as well as new recipes I discover along the way. I hope I will inspire you to get into your kitchen and try something new.
    Linda K says:

    I’m a huge peanut butter cup fan, so these are definitely the cookies for me!

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  11. bubblebathselfempowerment – The pandemic brought a lot of awareness to me about climate change, food shortages, how quickly our hospitals could colapse and more. This has sent me on a mission of becoming self-sustainable, empowered and working to help heal the earth. That is what the focus of this blog has become. The main way I'm working at this is through building a food forest and documenting as much as possible in hopes to inspire others. The more of us that do this, the more it will help heal the earth. When we buy produce from the grocery store, it was grown through monoculture, and that leads to use of chemicals that goes onto our food and into our planet, destroying soil. If we grow our own through permaculture (a food forest), we give the soil health. We also give ourselves health by growing organic foods and herbs that contribute to our health. There's a lot more to this, but this touches the surface. I'm only one year into this but my food forest is growing. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
    bubblebathselfempowerment says:

    Sounds delicious!

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      • bubblebathselfempowerment – The pandemic brought a lot of awareness to me about climate change, food shortages, how quickly our hospitals could colapse and more. This has sent me on a mission of becoming self-sustainable, empowered and working to help heal the earth. That is what the focus of this blog has become. The main way I'm working at this is through building a food forest and documenting as much as possible in hopes to inspire others. The more of us that do this, the more it will help heal the earth. When we buy produce from the grocery store, it was grown through monoculture, and that leads to use of chemicals that goes onto our food and into our planet, destroying soil. If we grow our own through permaculture (a food forest), we give the soil health. We also give ourselves health by growing organic foods and herbs that contribute to our health. There's a lot more to this, but this touches the surface. I'm only one year into this but my food forest is growing. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
        bubblebathselfempowerment says:

        and chocolate! I was thinking – a Reese’s cookie! Nummy!

  13. This is such a sweet post in many ways, and I have been meaning to tell you my experience with these cookies! First, I nearly smashed my screen reaching in for one because this combination of peanut butter and chocolate had my name all over it and your plate of cookies looked so perfect. Second, I tried to climb INTO my screen to give Maya a squeeze…she is just so darned adorable! Bernadette, you are giving her such a gift by spending precious time in the kitchen. She will never, ever forget it, just as I have those memories with my own Gram. Finally, I made the cookies! But I was in such a hurry to taste them that I broke all the rules and measured by sight, and for sure, I got it wrong because they didn’t look at all like yours. But I will try again when I am less distracted. I love that they don’t have a ton of sugar and it is a small batch so we don’t eat the whole plate in one sitting. Next time, I promise I will measure! 🙂

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    Phil says:

    Yes! 😊

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