COOKIES!!!!
I would just like to point out that Meg rules. She sent me cookies. Not just cookies, but TWO kinds of cookies, both delicious. PeanutButter&Chocolate chip and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip.
I would just like to take this moment to discuss raisins, since meg was smart and beautiful enough to avoid the folly of adding raisins to her oatmeal cookies. Raisns have been causing troubles for a while and it's damn well time they stopped. Now don't get me wrong, I love raisins, when they're in the proper place. By themselves, in trailmix, granola bars, or even chocolate covered at the movie theater(though this is questionable).
However, raisins do not belong in anything that goes in or comes out of the oven. Its that simple. Get your ass out of my oatmeal cookies, and stay the fuck away from my cinnimon bagels, and don't even get me started about breads.
Keep the raisins in their place and we'll all get along.
Thank you.
posted by Joe @ 8:00 PM
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I would like to confirm my status as teh awesomer by disclosing that I used dark chocolate chops. I highly recommend them.
Also raisins in bread is weird. I can't think of an example of when that's good (although I am not ruling it out entirely) but whenever I see an irish soda bread recipe calling for raisins I totally ignore it. The raisin part.
Now wait a minute...I agree, dark chocolate rules, but what's all this dissing of raisins in baked goods? I think raisin oatmeal cookies are great (not as good as dark chocolate chunk cookies, but anyway). As for bread, I have a cinnamon-raisin loaf in the freezer right now. We use it for french toast. Soda bread I don't know about, and I agree that there are some things that are better without raisins, but I think this across-the-board smack-down on baked goods is a little much. Surely you can think of something you like baked with raisins.
Sorry bob, if it's baked, and it has raisins, it's a mistake. I did not come to this decision lightly, but its the truth. I'm not so adverse to the idea that it could exist that i wouldn't try new ideas if you can come up with them, but i've tried a LOT.
Just to be clear, not all baked goods with raisins are inedible, but removing the raisins from them would make them WAY better. I mean i can stomach cinnimon-raisin bread, but cinnimon bread is just so much better that its hard to describe.
Eeeeeeeeeeeew, raisins in oatmeal cookies. Way to ruin a perfectly great dessert.
Raisins are okay on their own, but rarely good *in* anything.
So, would you say that the raisins reduce the quality of baked goods because of their flavor, or is this a texture thing? My soon-to-be-mother-in-law makes a pastry that has ground-up raisins in it, and it's quite good (and quite different than the other kinds of baked goods we've been discussing). If it's a texture thing, then maybe things that include raisins in a different form would be ok.
Primarily texture, but the flavor (for example, in oatmeal cookies) is somewhat of a contrast to me. This could very well be one of those genetic "you taste it or you don't" things...
I think onions might fall into that category too. If I taste anything with onions, it's an overpoweringly disgusting flavor that masks all other flavors in the food... but plenty of people seem to love 'em.
I've had good oatmeal raisin cookies, but I think they're better with chocolate chips. Cinnamon raisin bread is ok but the raisins never seem to stay in the bread and they don't taste right for some reason. It doesn't make the bread bad but plain cinnamon bread is delicious.
i *knew* there was a reason we got on so well with one another... i absolutely detest raisins IN anything, especially anything baked - cookies, bagels, bread...
we also substitue chocolate chips for raisins in cookies.
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