I totally forgot to put the recipe of “Organic Sesame Cookie”!

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

Organic Pastry Flour	200g
Organic Baking Powder	1tsp
Organic Unsalted Butter	60g
Organic Toasted Sesame Oil	20g
Organic Egg	1
Organic Coconuts Crystals (sugar)	60g
Organic Toasted Black Sesame Seeds	20g

Instructions:

1.       Mix softened butter and sesame oil in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until it gets  creamy white.

2.       Add coconut sugar (or maple syrup, dates sugar, or other sweeteners) into butter and sesame oil and mix well with an electric mixer.

3.       Add egg and mix well with an electric mixer until it gets thicker.

4.       Add sesame seeds and mix in with a rubber spatula.

5.       Add pastry flour and baking powder and mix with spatula. Don’t over  mix.

6.       Wrap the batter with plastic wrap (Make 2 rolls). Then put them in a freezer for about 1 hour.

7.       Unwrap the semi-frozen batter and cut it in ¼ inch thick slices.

8.       Place them in a baking tray and bake about 15 minutes at 350 degree.

You can make extra and store them in the freezer. With this way, you can always serve the freshly baked cookies.

I personally do not trust ready-made baby biscuits or cookies even though they say “organic”.  They are still highly processed and contain many non-essential ingredients.

Earth’s Best Brand’s “Teething Biscuits – Barley” has the following ingredients: Organic barley flour, organic oat flour, organic evaporated cane juice (organic evaporated cane juice, organic corn starch), organic sunflower oil, organic non-fat dry milk, organic corn flour, organic molasses, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, cream of tartar, monocalcium phosphate), organic corn starch, vitamin E acetate (vitamin E).

HAPPYBABY Organic Puffs, Greens Puffs, has the following ingredients:
Organic Rice, Organic Whole Oats, Organic Wheat, Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Organic Brown Rice, Organic Wheat Starch, Organic Spinach, Organic Collard Greens, Organic Kale. Vitamins and Minerals: Di- and Tri- Calcium Phosphate (Calcium), Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Ferric Orthophosphate (Iron), Vitamin D3, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Zinc Oxide, D-calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Thiamin Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Pyridoxine Hcl (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12, Folic Acid. No Dairy. No Corn. No Soy. Contains: Wheat.

So, both contain ” Organic Evaporated Cane Juice” , and Earth’s Best has organic molasses, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, cream of tartar, monocalcium phosphate). Happy Baby puffs are highly processed (do you see Kale in the ingredients?) I am sure they are good, but I don’t want to feed my baby with them. If I want to use already made snacks, I normally use “Little Duck” Organics’ Tiny Fruits” which contains nothing but organic freeze dried fruits (3 different flavors: Apple/Blueberry, Apple/Banana, Mango/Strawberry)

However, it is much healthier if you make your own cookies from scratch with the best ingredients. So, I wanted to make a biscuit/cookie for my baby (I’ve already made muffins for her) and looked for some recipes then found “Sesame cookie”. They don’t use “Organic” products, but I made it with organic ingredients without any alternation on quantities.  Definitely, the cookie isn’t so sweet. Those babies who get used to eat sweet food may not like this cookie, but if your baby hasn’t tried anything, you may want to try this recipe… Oh my husband like the cookie but with his favorite chocolate ice cream

I would like to post, my husband, Rob’s great turkey chili recipe. So yummy and hearty. He makes once a while when he sees organic turkey thighs on sale at Food Coop.  We use 100% organic ingredients.

Ingredients:

2 cups dried black beans

3 lbs raw turkey thighs and/or drumsticks

2 medium onions, chopped

8 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1 bay leaf

1 stick cinnamon

2 tbs. chili powder

1 tbs. cumin

1 tsp oregano

1 can whole peeled tomatoes, or crushed (we use Bionature pureed tomato in glass bottle)

5 plum tomatoes, quartered

2 cups water

1/2 jalepeno pepper

1 red pepper, diced

1 green pepper, diced

Instruction:

Wash and soak beans 12-24 hours.  Put in pot and fill with water 1 inch above beans.  Cook until tender (about 45 minutes) with pinch of salt and 3 cloves of garlic.  Drain, set aside.

Sear turkey parts in heavy duty pot (cast iron or le crusette type) with olive oil, about 4 minutes each side. Set aside.  Sauté onions and remaining garlic in pot with oil and turkey juices, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Add 1/2 tsp salt, pepper, bay leaf, cinnamon, chili powder, cumin and oregano.  Saute a few more minutes.  Add Turkdy parts, can tomatoes, plum tomatoes, water, and 1/2 tsp salt.  Bring to boil.  Simmer on very low heat, uncovered 2-3 hours until turkey is tender.  Add beans, jalepeno, green and red pepper, cook 45 minutes longer.  Turkey should be falling off bone.  Remove bone and skin and any other non meat portions of turkey.  Break apart turkey with wooden spoon.  Serve with rice.  Garnish with cilantro and/or chopped avocado.