Wednesday, June 25, 2025
The Braselton News
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Braselton/Barrow County
Nurse practitioner at NGPG in Braselton and Barrow
providing hormone replacement care and gynecology
Sylvia Collier
Sylvia Collier has joined
Northeast Georgia Physi
cians Group as as a nurse
practitioner specializing
in gynecological women’s
health, with a focus on hor
mone replacement therapy,
with Northeast Georgia Phy
sicians Group (NGPG) OB/
GYN in Bethlehem and Bra
selton.
She provides evi
dence-based care that ad
dresses the unique needs of
women navigating hormon
al changes at various life
stages.
“I was fortunate to grow
up with my mother and
aunts, who were all nurses at
various levels,” Collier said.
“Watching their dedication
and pride in their work in
stilled a deep respect for the
profession and a desire to
follow in their footsteps.”
Collier earned her nursing
degree from Hampton Uni
versity in Virginia and her
master’s degree from Jack
sonville State University in
Alabama. She brings over
two decades of experience
in women’s health, includ
ing time as a Navy Corps-
man and many years spent
in labor and delivery before
honing her expertise in gy
necology and bio-identical
hormone replacement ther
apy-
While in her masters pro
gram, Collier completed
an OB/GYN rotation with
NGPG.
“That experience affirmed
my passion for helping
women, and NGPG felt like
home, so I realized this is
where I wanted to be long
term,” Collier explained. “I
am extremely happy to be
part of this community per
sonally and professionally.”
Collier will be practicing
alongside Amber French,
DO, who has been pivotal
in providing bio-identical
hormone replacement thera
py to help women across the
region.
“We are excited to wel
come Sylvia to our team,”
Dr. French said. “And I’m
personally excited to have
a colleague who is also
passionate about focusing
on gynecology, specifical
ly helping women navigate
hormonal transitions such as
perimenopause and meno
pause.”
For more information,
visit ngpg.org/collier or call
770-848-9335.
Local recipe
Balancing salty and sweet with the salted chocolate pistachio cookie
By Melisssa Reycraft
There is no denying my
love of chocolate.
It consumes me, almost as
much of my love of salt. In
fact, I teeter-totter between
which I’m craving and in
which form.
Will it be a secretly salty
dinner adorned with capers
or will it be a wonderful
scoop of roasted strawberry
ice cream? Most of the time
I can’t decide so whenever I
can find the perfect excuse
to balance the two I jump all
over it. And thus the perfect
salted chocolate pistachio
cookie was born.
I’ve not come across a
chocolate cookie I love as
much as this one. The edges
are crisp, the center soft, the
salt on top hits your tongue
with each bite, and the pis
tachios add a much need
ed earthy crunch that cuts
through the rich chocolate
base allowing you to eat
more than you anticipated.
However, if you’re like
my daughter and prefer to
have your pistachios in a
wak
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Photo by Melissa Reycraft
The salted chocolate pistachio cookie balances
cravings for both salty and sweet treats.
bowl rather than baked in
a cookie, you can omit the
green nuggets of goodness
and opt for white chocolate
chips instead. She insisted
she wouldn’t like the cookies
baked with pistachios and I
insisted, motherly, that she
would indeed enjoy them
baked in the cookie. She did
not enjoy them baked in the
cookie and I was left making
another batch studded with
white instead of green.
No loss though, now we
have more sweet and salty
cookies to satiate my crav
ings.
Yield 18-20 cookies
215 grams all purpose
flour
50 grams dutch process
cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
// teaspoon baking soda
130 grams unsalted butter,
room temperature
145 grams granulated
sugar
150 grams dark brown
sugar
% teaspoon kosher salt
1 large egg
1 large yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
100 grams chocolate
chunks (or chips)
100 grams lightly salt
ed and roasted pistachios
(slightly crushed)
Maldon sea salt for sprin
kling
-Preheat your oven to 400
degrees. Line a baking tray
with parchment paper or
a nonstick silicone baking
mat.
-In a medium bowl, whisk
together flour, cocoa pow
der, baking powder, and
baking soda.
-In the bowl of an electric
mixer fitted with a paddle
attachment, cream together
the dark brown sugar, gran
ulated sugar, salt, and butter
until light and fluffy.
-With the mixer set to low
speed, add the egg and yolk.
Mix until combined, scrape
down the sides, and add the
vanilla extract.
-Add the flour mixture
and mix on low speed until
almost combined. Add the
pistachios and chocolate
chunks and mix until no
flour streaks remain.
-Scoop cookies using a
large cookie scoop (about
2 tablespoons worth or 60
grams). Place 8 scoops,
evenly spaced, on your pre
pared half sheet tray. Light
ly flatten the tops using the
palm of your hand or the
bottom of a clean glass.
Sprinkle maldon sea salt on
top of each cookie.
-Bake for 10-12 minutes
until the middle of the cook
ies have slightly puffed and
the cookie no longer looks
shiny on top. The middle
will be soft but will con
tinue to set as it cools. Let
cool completely on the tray
before enjoying. You can
bake the remaining cook
ies in batches or flatten the
tops and freeze in an airtight
freezer bag for later use.
When baking from frozen,
add 1 minute to the baking
time.
Melissa Reycraft lives in
Hoschton and is a former
New York City pastry chef.
Reycraft worked as a pas
try sous chef at Rainbow
Room in NYC and Four
Seasons Restaurant and
holds a degree from the In
stitute of Culinary Educa
tion in NYC.
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