Sugar cookies

     On Tuesday (Mar.5/13) we made sugar cookies. My group had a revised recipe. Instead of sugar we used Splenda. it looked like regular supar cookies and it smelled great but was really dry. It took us a long time to get it to stick together in a ball.
     On Thursday (Mar.7/13) we made more sugar cookies. This time we replaced the white flour for half whole wheat and half white. It was just noticably darker because of the whole wheat flour. We also baked the cookies from Tuesday.
     On Tuesday (Mar.12/13) we made the normal sugar cookie recipe. It was easy to roll out and smelled great. after they were baked they smelled even better.
     On Thursday (Mar.14/13) we substituted  2 eggs with 1 cup of applesauce. That dough was ridiculously sticky. We couldn't even roll it out to bake it. we had to add a lot of flour.
    After tasting all the cookies the ones I like most were the half whole wheat half white flour cookies. they had a nutty taste and smelled fantastic. The Splenda cookies tasted the worst. The applesauce and regular recipe cookies I tied for second. They were both really good but weren't my favorites.

Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce

     On Feb.26/13 (Tuesday) we made gnocchi. Gnocchi is made from 2 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups of mash potatoes and 1 egg. We mixed it all together. We rolled it out into long, half inch thick strips and cut them into lengths of 1 inch. My group used a fork and pressed in into the dough flat.

     On Feb.28/13 (Thursday) we made the tomato sauce. A whole can of tomatoes, a whole can of tomato paste, an onion, 2 cloves of garlic, basil and oregano. We cooked the onions and garlic, then added everything else. After the gnocchi was done boiling and the sauce done cooking, we cooked them together in a sauce. We decided not to puree them and kept them whole.We cooked them for only 10 minutes then ate them. I thought it tasted great. We had a lot extra and gave some to other students and they also said it was good. I would definitely make it again.