Friday's Feast

Feast One Hundred & Nineteen

Appetizer
Have you ever changed a flat tire by yourself?

• No. That's why I've always been a member of CAA (Canadian Automobile Association). If something goes wrong with the car, like a flat tire, I can call them, and they'll help out.
  

Soup
Do you have an "innie" or an "outie" belly button?

• Innie
  

Salad
Name a new paint color and describe it.

• Siamese blue. This blue is bright and vibrant, the colour of a Siamese cat's eyes, like the eyes on my dearly departed Whiskers (to the right)
  

Main Course
What is your favorite holiday tradition?

• Both of my parents are French-Canadian (although they are from Manitoba, not Québec), and my favourite holiday tradition has always been the Réveillon. This consists of attending Mass on Christmas Eve (Midnight Mass is typical, but when we were younger we would go to an earlier Mass), then coming home and having a small meal (tourtière would be served) and opening one gift. Tourtière is a meat pie, typically made with ground veal, beef and pork. My mother's tourtière, made entirely from scratch, is delicious. She makes everything, including the crust, by hand.
  
• More details on Réveillon and tourtière can be found at these sites:
  
  • Réveillon
  • Allrecipes: French Canadian Tourtière
  • History of Tourtière
    

Dessert
If you were a cookie, what kind of cookie would you be, and why?

• Protein Power Cookies, because they are healthy with just a touch of sweetness. So they are like me - eating healthy most of the time, but not afraid to indulge every now and again.
  
  Protein Power Cookies:
  
  1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
  1 cup whey protein powder (I like Designer Whey vanilla)
  1 tsp baking powder
  1 tsp baking soda
  1/2 tsp salt
  1 cup unsweetened applesauce
  1 cup Splenda (or sugar if you don't like Splenda)
  2 eggs (or equivalent egg substitute)
  1/4 cup skim milk
  1 tblsp vanilla extract
  2 1/2 cups oats (old fashioned)
  1 cup chocolate chips (unsweetened or semi-sweet)
  
  Preheat your oven to 350°F. Toast the oats for about 15 minutes. Leave your oven on at 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners.
  
  In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, protein powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  
  Cream together the applesauce and the Splenda. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Combine the milk and vanilla, and add to the applesauce mixture.
  
  Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in two or three additions, stirring to combine. Stir in the oats. Mix in the chocolate chips.
  
  Using a cookie scoop or ice cream scoop, drop balls of dough (slightly smaller than a ping pong ball) onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about an inch between them. Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes; remove them from the oven when they've started to brown around the edges.
  
  Let the cookies cool for a few minutes, then transfer them to a rack to cool completely.
  
  Yield: about 5 1/2 dozen cookies.
  

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