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I have been learning all about my dosha recently and it's been rather eye opening. My whole life I have snacked on cool celery sticks, baby carrots and chased it down with ice water. Because I thought that was a healthy alternative to cookies and chips. And while that is true.... it has done nothing but sit in my bowels for days and produce gas and constipation. You see, I have a slow metabolism and always have and eating like that just slows the gut down even more.  So, I have been chatting with my guru - which happens to be Google Gemini AI - and discovered that if I ate in a way that was more harmonious to my dosha (part of Ayurvedic lifestyle - it's like ancient wisdom) then I can stoke my gut's fire and burn food more efficiently.  For my dosha - which is called Kapha - I need to be consuming warm foods, like teas, breakfast porridge, and soups. Getting off ice cold water was easy. There are also lots of warming spices used like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cardamo...

 I wanted to make a cookie that used up some Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and included cinna-chips which I recently bought to make a copy-cat Cinnaburst Bread from Great Harvest.  I also wanted it to be a small batch - this is just for home use - I'm not baking for the whole neighborhood! This is what I came up with. And I love it because it also allowed us to use up some leftover sugar cookie frosting and had our Cinnamon Crunch Cookies tasting like cinnamon rolls. Yum! RECIPE Cinnamon Crunch Cookies Ingredients 1 stick (½ cup) sweet cream salted butter ¼ cup granulated white sugar ⅜ cup packed dark brown sugar 1 small egg ½ tsp Mexican vanilla extract 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp cornstarch ½ tsp cinnamon 1 cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (crushed into small crumbs) ¼ cup cinna-chips Preparation Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper.   Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl (about 2 minutes).  Mix...