green chip cookies

We wanted to make something a little green, so we came up with pistachio cookies today. They're yummy--like a nutty sugar cookie.

2 sticks (1 c.) butter (or 1 cup vegetable oil or shortening)

1 cup sugar

1/2 t. baking soda

1 egg (or Ener-G egg replacer)

1/2 t. vanilla

2 c. flour (any grain should work)

1 c. crushed pistachios (or any nut or seed)

1/2 t. salt if nuts aren't salted

Mix. Bake at 375 for about 9 minutes.

We also made Sunflower Seed Butter Cookies and are hoping they'll turn nice and green by tomorrow. In trying to come up with other green foods, we came across http://www.cookingwithcolor.com/green_foods/ and these yummies: http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/2010/03/are-you-eating-something-green/. And for anyone wanting to make St. Patrick's Day about more than wearing green and pinching people, here's what we're celebrating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick.