Lately I’ve been feeling an urge to cook, bake, write, read and do a million other things during the scarce 18 hours I have in a day.

Baked butter cookies with chocolate chips for my kids yesterday night after they have slept.

This is my own recipe -

250gm butter
500gm flour
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
200gm dark brown sugar
100ml honey
2 eggs, beaten
chocolate chips to taste (your preference to add more or less)

Heat oven to 180 degrees C.

Beat the butter and brown sugar till creamy.

Add the beaten eggs and honey, mix till even consistency.

Sift the flour, then add baking soda and salt

Fold in the flour with mixer on low speed - stop when the flour is completely mixed in.

Stir in the chocolate chips.

Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes so that it’s easier to cut out the shapes. If making simple round shapes, no need to chill the dough.

Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or till the sides are golden.

Chill on rack

Posh, this recipe is also for you, I remember you mentioned you wanted it

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Also cooked Barley with Lotus seeds and Gingko nuts for the kids today.. I left out the beancurd sheets because I added lotus seeds today. The Cantonese - and I am one - believe that nourishing desserts like this one helps to yang yan and zhi nuan. It’s especially good for children in terms of rejuvenation and nourishing.

The “recipe” for this one is literally boil barley first, then add lotus seeds, after which add gingko nuts and rock sugar. LOL. Easy peasy.

The next time I will make my soy milk version with beancurd and egg white. That one, I will share the step by step recipe like above.