{"id":348,"date":"2010-01-22T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=348"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:02:15","slug":"mesquite-chocolate-chip-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/01\/mesquite-chocolate-chip-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/IMG_0370.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve had the <i>Super Natural Cooking<\/i> cookbook by Heidi Swanson (of <a href=\"http:\/\/101cookbooks.com\/\">101 Cookbooks<\/a>) for a few years now.&nbsp; One of the recipes that I marked right away was this cookie recipe.&nbsp; The only thing holding up a batch of these cookies however was getting some Mesquite flour.&nbsp; Mesquite flour is made from the pods of the Mesquite (not the wood) which is ground up into a flour or meal.&nbsp; Of course in the book there are resources on where to order it online, but I never got around to doing that.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">This year, as part of my Christmas present, my girlfriend gave me a half pound of Mesquite flour from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonamesquitecompany.com\/\">Arizona Mesquite Company<\/a>.&nbsp; So it was finally time to make the cookies.&nbsp; Baking with the mesquite flour was fun.&nbsp; The flour is very aromatic, and while its only a fraction of the flour in these cookies, you can definitely smell its there.&nbsp; There was one casualty while baking these cookies though.&nbsp; Breaking from my normal routine of only mixing by hand, I pulled out the electric hand mixer.&nbsp; Just as I was about done mixing there was a spark and smoke from the inside of the mixer.&nbsp; The mixer alas had mixed its last.&nbsp; I guess that&#8217;s what I get for trying to use technology while baking.&nbsp; In the end it was worth it though&#8230;these cookies were quite good.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/IMG_0373.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the Super Natural Cooking cookbook by Heidi Swanson (of 101 Cookbooks) for a few years now.&nbsp; One of the recipes that I marked right away was this cookie recipe.&nbsp; The only thing holding up a batch of these cookies however was getting some Mesquite flour.&nbsp; Mesquite flour is made from the pods of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/01\/mesquite-chocolate-chip-cookies\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[139,124],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking","tag-chocolate-chip-cookies","tag-mesquite-flour","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}