These were a holiday experiment that turned out very well — so well that I plan on making another batch very soon. You see, I am always looking for uses for my huge, 3.5 foot tall, 4 foot round rosemary plant outside. So, aside from rosemary being my favorite herb, it is also the herb that I have the most of. Just like spinach, I like to sneak rosemary into many, many things.
How about cookies?
Rosemary-Brown Sugar Shortbread
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tbsp packed brown sugar
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour (+ more for rolling)
2 tbsp chopped, fresh rosemary leaves
Beat the butter until creamy, then add the sugars and beat about 1 more minute. Add egg and mix. Add flour 1/2 cup at a time and mix until just combined. Now, comes the chopped rosemary. Mix it in and stop. The dough may look a little crumbly, but it will come together.
Turn out onto a floured board and roll to 1/4″ thickness. (I always roll mine a little thin — try to stop yourself before you do this). Use a 2-inch biscuit cutter and create small circles. Mine had fancy-pantsy scalloped edges.
Bake for 15-20 minutes at 325 until the edges get a little golden.
In Other News…It’s so Little and Cute!
I finally leapt into 2007 and bought an ipod. An ipod nano.
A super-spiffy red, 8GB ipod nano. Oh and hey, $10 of the purchase price went into the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. And in keeping with the spirit of the food blog, her name is roma-tomato.
Right now she has the unabridged audio book of Wuthering Heights (never read it, will try listening to it), Mark Lanegan, Area, Belle & Sebastian, Counting Crows, The Cure, the Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, Kate Bush, Sufjan Stevens, Unbunny and the White Stripes.
Would have had Jolie Holland too, but jwa riped that CD as .oogs instead of .mp3s. But regardless, there’s so very much room left on roma! Yay!
Tomorrow: Super Foods Friday is green.
Hi there Michelle,
Happy New Year. Great cookie recipe! I love rosemary too and have several large shrubs growing around our place.
Your recipe would be a good submission for Weekend Herb Blogging. It’s at Coffeepot and Cornbread this week.
I want you to know that even though I don’t leave many comments on your posts, I read your blog through my reader all the time and enjoy it always.
Keep on cookin’.
The cookies look so delicious and LOVE the ipod! Wicked color.
Unbunny? They are in my iTunes library – my buddy who worked with a guy from the band @Amazon.com let me in on them. Good stuff – I didn’t know anyone else listened to them.
Wuthuring heights…Bad, repressed memories of English Lit in college. Must…find…cliff notes.
I lurve unbunny. jwa and I both walk around the house singing Massachusetts all the time. In fact, Fission Romance the West is one of my favorite road trip cd’s of all time!
jwa is working on a coming up with lyrics for a version of Massachusetts titled, Mashed Potatoes. Perhaps it will be a download here soon 🙂
Mashed potatoes
is the food I love the most
On my breakfast plate, beside the buttered toast….
I also have a huge rosemary shrub. I just cut long sprigs and put them in a vase as a fragrant bouquet in my living room. Even better if the plant is in bloom.
Sara: Thanks!
Christine: I’ve really wnated to contribute to WHB for a while now, I keep forgetting. Maybe next weekend!
J Blue: Oh, that’s a great idea!