These are Cookie Cookies, another recipe from The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions. They are basically chocolate chip cookies with chunks of sandwich cookies inside. I used double chocolate Jo Jo's, which explains the yummy mess of chocolate swirls. These were good cookies (I mean, how could they be bad), though a little bit cakey for my taste. I think they really need that heavier cake texture in order to hold up under the weight of big sandwich cookie chunks, so it works out. I brought these for family on New Year's Day and my brother in-law exclaimed, "A cookie made out of cookies?!"
For my regular, non sweets meals I've been struggling to find a balance between a nice variety of veggies and meeting my doubled protein demands while pregnant. It's too easy to just fall back on a double stack of soy chick patties on a toasted bagel for breakfast (32 grams of protein, yo!) but then I'm stuffed until lunch with no produce in sight. So I've been doing more salads for lunch at work. I still have to throw some kind of protein into the mix in order to meet my 70 grams daily, so I will use quinoa, tofu, walnuts, beans, etc to top salads. my favorite lunch salad so far has been this one I tossed together with whatever we had on hand. It's spinach, blueberries, tomatoes, a quinoa and brown rice mix, and lemon vinaigrette.
I love the chewy quinoa on salads. Must do more of that.
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What a pretty salad. I feel the same way about baking but my son turns 13 this weekend so one last hurrah for a while.
I don't think I'd have the strength to not make dessert--I'm just not that good. Rock it on for those of us with less willpower!
And that salad looks delish!
Saw a comment you left on someone's blog, including your little Tori Amos avatar, and had to stop by! Any vegan Tori Amos fan is an instant friend in my book ;) I love the name of your blog. I had a website back in the 90's raspberry-swirl.com, it was a weekly Tori Amos game. It got to be too popular and I couldn't handle managing it and going to school so I shut it down. Brings back fun memories :)
Anyway, your cookies look lovely! I'm following the same no baking rule as you, though I did have a good excuse to make some carrot cake cupcakes for a friends birthday. That sort of thing totally doesn't count! ;)
That looks so delicious. I love the quinoa/lemon/blueberry combo.
I had another cookie failure today. /sigh
I will get better someday!
I love quinoa salad.
I've cut down on baking as well. I 've made my son's b-day cake and then a gf cookie that is low in sugar.
For a final batch, you certainly picked a winning recipe! Those look amazing, and a cookie within a cookie, no less. Way to go out with a bang.
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