double chocolate cookies

Yummy enough to be handed down through two generations. (Disclaimer- original source was the back of a package, but they are delicious!)

1 cup butter (real butter not margarine works best!)
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 2/3 c white chocolate chips (12oz pkg)
Macadamia nuts (optional)

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, add eggs and vanilla and beat well. Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and fluff with a fork. Add dry to wet and mix well. Add chocolate chips and 1/2-3/4 cup macadamia nuts if desired. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-9 min at 350. Do NOT overbake. Allow to cool 2-3 min before removing from sheet. I dare you to eat just one!

Italian sausage, bean, kale soup!

No photo, but very good. Adapted from a conversation with someone in my yoga class

3 links hot italian sausage
1 diced onion
1-2 diced carrots
2 15oz cans cannelli beans (white kidney beans)
6 cups chicken broth
1-2 cups kale
In a heavy bottomed pan, brown the sausage (take out of the casing first). Remove from pan and add one onion, saute until translucent and add carrots. Return sausage to the pan and add the chicken broth. Drain and rinse the beans. Add 1 can to the pot as is. Take the other half of the beans and mush them up with a fork into a paste and then add them. Cook until the carrots are hot and then add the kale. Cook 5 min more until kale is wilted. Serve with crusty white bread.