COOKIE CRUMBLE,JAMMERS + R&J COOKIES in SABLES @COOKIE BAR@NYC with MS GREENSPAN

 Ur are all snuggled up in ur pink bedroom ,dreaming away under  ur pink cuppycake comforter , and u have been thinking cookies all evening and its only natural that as u drift off , ur going to be thinking cookies too.....

And jus as ur drifting off , ur mind starts putting together a dozen and more cookie ideas and u wanna get up , switch on ur laptop and get right away to put the post , bake the next day and complete the post...

This is exactly what happened to me ,the day i read all about Ms Greenspans Jammers and more at the cookie bar.

Adding more goodness to a wonderful Sable , the buttery ,tender ,melt in ur mouth cookie , only makes things better and add some fantastic home made preserves and topped with streusel/Crumble , is always a winner and more.

I mean how can  this go wrong , A Vanilla bean Lemon zest Sable , reinforced with some Vanilla Crush And Fiori di sicilia...

And u need no sprinkles for these , but i could help taking my heart sprinkles out , but finally these babies landed on the cookies:-)

 So here i have some wonderful Vanilla bean Sables , made better , with rubbing some zest in the sugar , and a wee bit of Fiori di Sicilia.
Infact ,along with the Vanilla bean , u can go with any of these flavors , or maybe jus all and they'll be absolutely wonderful.
Go with whatever flavor rocks ur boat , or a little of all maybe?
What ever rocks ur boat , rocks these cookies too.......

I lovee streusel and find myself many a times adding streusel to many a bake and a bit back when i saw lemon bars with streusel i was jus as excited as well.

I am also always adding a Vanilla bean or 2 every where , including my streusel and sables!

Oh i filled them with Caramel and chocolate last time and this time there is something fantastic too...Jammmmm...lods of good fruity jam = jammers.

Beginning with Sables , baking them in rings ( nice straight brown edges on the cookies come coz they are baked in the rings), i used shaped rings , like i do many a time , for cookies ,right from the wedding cookie to many more....so was more than happy when i read that Ms. Greenspan does this too!

 Oh sure , had lods of cookie cutters to wash , some of them custom made , but that was a breeze with some hot water and good dishwashing liquid.

So lets begin with the cookie , for step by step pics , go here , this time i patted them all to cut out the shapes desired and bake them along with the same cutter.

Here is the dough , patted out , roughly into 2 squares , ready to be cut out, after an over night refrigeration.

 And before u go any further brew ur self a coffee, Vanilla coffee is good...and if there are hearts and pink , then fantastic.....

And pour urself some, to begin with ie.....u can dip in more as u go... 

GOIABADA,PERADA,GUAVA CHEESE -THE GOA PORTUGUESA WAY

This recipe was born outa love ....for my mom , from whom i hear the fondest stories of her grand mommy making slices of perada , and filling jars and jars with them ,
 when they were kids...

I imagine mom , with her curly locks and dimple smile ,
 grabbing two little handfuls and more of these , and as she fondly and most cutely tells me how they took lods on the quiet , not coz she didn give it to them , but coz it was never enough...

I picture , all those hours of stirring , bend over wood fires ,
 in a mud pot and wooden laddle....
  ...and the excitement of the children when those sacks of guavas from their farms made their way home,
 well knowing what was going to be there in store for them in a few days from then.

Even as i write this , at 2.14 am , there is a large pot on the flame , with the guava pulp and sugar ,simmering away on low fire.

Yeah ,i have a few tricks up my sleeve , that i can afford to leave it un attended for awhile.

+ this time , im gng to split the time , like i'll have it simmering till i go to sleep , and then continue simmering tomorrow , which actually gives a better consistency.

 If u visit Goa too , Perada is a sweet every goan store stocks on and sells well ,not the spread variety but the bar variety..