Not-so-sweets for the sweet

A diabetes- and keto-friendly chocolate chip cookie, plus! free! A small rant

If you’re here just for the recipe, scroll to the bottom!

Friends, never doubt I love and care for you because instead of being outside on this sunny, 65-degree F day planting the $$$ worth of fall plants I just adopted, I am inside writing to you.

My mum’s birthday was yesterday. She would’ve been 93. (And if she were alive she would kill me for sharing her age.) Every year for her birthday I would festoon her front steps with pots and pots of chrysanthemums. So, along with putting away the linen clothes after Labor Day, I only allow myself to buy mums after my mum’s birthday.

I also celebrate by eating chocolate ice cream, her all-time favorite food.

Newly unearthed photo of my mother with a gorgeous bob. We have so many family photos of people no one is able to identify anymore. Historian Marissa begs: label your photos!

Much of my week was spent being anxious about things great and small. I suppose that is no different from most weeks for me. But perhaps you too have arrived at Saturday a little more mentally exhausted than most? Some of my worries resolved themselves (my daughter made the varsity hunt seat team at college!), others continue to gnaw at me. For instance, how Ron DeSantis can allocate 12 million dollars of the Florida state budget to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard with promises of jobs, green cards and English lessons. Or why Greg Abbott and his pals think plopping busloads of immigrants in front of the Vice President’s home is owning the libs. To think these people go to church every Sunday.

Home-grown dahlia

That the tactic is not new is only more infuriating, and not surprising. NPR’s article this week on the “reverse freedom rides” given to southern African Americans in the 1960s is a must-read if you haven’t already done so. My school books never taught this, and I’m grateful I live in a state where an unvarnished history of segregation and civil rights can be taught.

In nicer news, Bosco became a minor Twitter sensation, which leads me to believe people are in desperate need of some nicier, fluffier, boop-able news.

This week’s recipe is courtesy of my podcast guest this week, Emmy-nominated film director and producer, Jeremy Newberger. We talked politics, Lindsey Graham Jell-O wrestling and about one of Jeremy’s film “Evocateur,” a history of Mort Downey, Jr. and his talk show. Boy-oh-boy does that show resonate. You can watch it on YouTube.

I always ask my guests what they want to bake during the podcast. Jeremy has type-2 diabetes, so he shared his very delicious recipe for diabetes-friendly (and keto-friendly) chocolate chip cookies.

Jeremy uses monkfruit sugar and sugar-free chocolate chips in his version. I use coconut sugar and vegan 70% chocolate chips by Hü. I also add a teaspoon of cinnamon to mine. Cinnamon enhances sweetness, without adding sugar.

Either way, they are deeply satisfying.

Diabetes-Friendly Chocolate Chip Cookies

Keto-Friendly too!

recipe courtesy of Mr. Jeremy Newberger

What You’ll Need:

¾ cup butter, softened (or coconut oil)

2/3 cup granulated monkfruit sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups almond flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon kosher salt

9 ounces of sugar-free chocolate chips

1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)

What You’ll Do:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, or grease well.

2. In a small bowl, whisk together the almond flour, baking powder and salt (and cinnamon, if using).

3. Using a stand or hand mixer, cream the butter and monkfruit sugar until fluffy, about 2 minutes.

4. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition.

5. Add the vanilla and briefly blend.

6. Add the flour mixture and mix on low until just blended. Add the chocolate chips, give the sides of the bowl a little scrape, and blend.

7. Roll the dough into 1 1/2-inch balls and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden and no longer moist on top. Monkfruit sugar can burn quickly so this is not the time to leave the kitchen and change the oil on the car.

8. Let cool on the pan for 2 minutes before removing to a rack to cool completely. Enjoy.

From all of us here at Anxious Enterprises, we hope you have a lovely week!

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