http://foodaccordingtome.com sauce and sensibility Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:08:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://foodaccordingtome.com/2007/cran_cookie/ http://foodaccordingtome.com/2007/cran_cookie/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:25:08 +0000 Janine http://www.foodaccordingtome.com/2007/06/an-unexpected-pleasure/ A couple of weeks ago a smallish, square shortbread cookie appeared in my hands. It was gorgeous – perfectly browned on the crisp edges, all creamy, buttery goodness towards the center. The crumb was just right – the cookie yielded to my teeth without shattering so that I was able to eat it in exactly four bites. Usually, I might be satisfied in consuming a smallish shortbread cookie in just two bites – a clean bisection – but I made the extra effort to split it into four, eaten over a number of minutes with careful chewing and breaks in between. Aside from looking absolutely smackdabulously perfect, the flavor, appropriately, was where the real bang hid. Cranberry and pistachio. The pistachios were, of course, perfectly toasted and the dried cranberries tasted like cranberries, not like sucrose and vegetable oil (as inferiorly dried fruit often does). Now, I love cranberries and I love pistachios, but I wouldn’t have thought to combine them. What a maddening joy, then, to still be drooling over the memory so many days later. You can get yours at your nearby GCB.

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