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I tend to have two cooking modes: I either get caught up in nostalgia, and want to cook recipes I haven’t made in ages, or I thirst for the new. Last week, I had Danielle Oron’s Salted Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies from 2016, which isn’t ages ago, technically, but which somehow feels like a past life. I plan to keep them in my current life. The tahini, salt, and chocolate work like magic together. The tahini forms the base of the cookie, and there’s just enough flour to hold the dough together, so it’s a nutty, chewy cookie, without the heft of one made with peanut butter. Or as Aly S., a Food52er commented, “Truly genius heaven. Tasted like the creamiest halva with chocolate in a cookie form. To die for!”
