Time for cookies
Because it is somewhere between 35 and 22 degrees outside, I am going to bake cookies. I can't seem to get warm, and since I can't sit in a tub of hot water any more (well, I can, but I just can't get up and out of one, the best way to get warmed up IMO), I will turn the oven on and get to work baking cookies. Be back later.
I'm back. Finished baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, having a latte, and dinner, andtwo four cookies, and now I am stuffed to the gills. I got the kitchen all warmed up then DH comes in and keeps opening up the window to call the cat that lives outside, thinking it's too cold for her; but she doesn't come to his calls so I'm thinking she's cuddled up on the patio chair snug as only a cat can get on a cold night like this. DH says our thermometer says it's 19℉ out there tonight, which is friggin' cold. She'll be in later, no doubt. But I digress, my point was that I got it all warmed up in here, and then all the warmth went out the window. Argh. But the cookies turned out well; they're much better than they were last time I made them before Christmas.
We've been buying a lot of cookies on our trips to TJ's. They've become a line item on the budget, along with coffee and MREs. But I think when I looked back at the sales slip and added them up, we spent $20 on cookies. Since I always have butter, flour, sugar, and eggs on hand, and this time had peanut butter and chocolate chips as well, I got 64 cookies just by scrounging the fridge and pantry, and putting in a little labor. The next batch will be the coconut, ginger and chocolate chip recipe tht I got from Muff; for this I had to buy condensed milk and ginger snaps, already having the rest of the ingredients on hand. So that will be total of $7.50 for probably six dozen cookies. We probably should just stop eating so many damned cookies, and be done with it. Sh'yeah... like that's going to happen.
I have gotten DH to cook from scratch a bit more, which I think is more cost effective than buying the frozen entrees that we've been eating for the last year. The only problem is that he cooks so much of one thing, we end up eating the same thing for a week. I keep telling him that the freezer is your friend. Start up a rotation of home cooked meals from the freezer. How hard can that be? And, gosh, I crave having a quick pasta dish or a stir fry. But it's not in his rotation, so is unlikely to happen.
This is why I enjoy going out to lunch with my friends once a month or so. Last week it was to a Mexican restaurant, and I brought home enough leftovers from my Chili Colorado Burrito dinner to get two more meals out of it at home. It was lovely. DH says it messes him up, though. I say, "Live with it!" I can be such a bitch, sometimes.
Good Night, TTYL, and Be Well,
P.S. Watch all of season 3 of Downton Abbey on-line at http://www.1channel.ch/tv-2658223-Downton-Abbey/index.php
There will be several options if you scroll down. I had the best luck with vidbux. I also avoided clicking on all advertisements, and I definitely did not want to join anything that asked me to join. If you do that you will be inviting a world of hurt to your PC.
Or, you can just wait and enjoy the season on PBS Sunday evenings.
Also, (non sequiter), I was so happy that Moonrise Kingdom got a nod at the Golden Globes tonight. I loved that movie!
I'm back. Finished baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, having a latte, and dinner, and
We've been buying a lot of cookies on our trips to TJ's. They've become a line item on the budget, along with coffee and MREs. But I think when I looked back at the sales slip and added them up, we spent $20 on cookies. Since I always have butter, flour, sugar, and eggs on hand, and this time had peanut butter and chocolate chips as well, I got 64 cookies just by scrounging the fridge and pantry, and putting in a little labor. The next batch will be the coconut, ginger and chocolate chip recipe tht I got from Muff; for this I had to buy condensed milk and ginger snaps, already having the rest of the ingredients on hand. So that will be total of $7.50 for probably six dozen cookies. We probably should just stop eating so many damned cookies, and be done with it. Sh'yeah... like that's going to happen.
I have gotten DH to cook from scratch a bit more, which I think is more cost effective than buying the frozen entrees that we've been eating for the last year. The only problem is that he cooks so much of one thing, we end up eating the same thing for a week. I keep telling him that the freezer is your friend. Start up a rotation of home cooked meals from the freezer. How hard can that be? And, gosh, I crave having a quick pasta dish or a stir fry. But it's not in his rotation, so is unlikely to happen.
This is why I enjoy going out to lunch with my friends once a month or so. Last week it was to a Mexican restaurant, and I brought home enough leftovers from my Chili Colorado Burrito dinner to get two more meals out of it at home. It was lovely. DH says it messes him up, though. I say, "Live with it!" I can be such a bitch, sometimes.
Good Night, TTYL, and Be Well,
P.S. Watch all of season 3 of Downton Abbey on-line at http://www.1channel.ch/tv-2658223-Downton-Abbey/index.php
There will be several options if you scroll down. I had the best luck with vidbux. I also avoided clicking on all advertisements, and I definitely did not want to join anything that asked me to join. If you do that you will be inviting a world of hurt to your PC.
Or, you can just wait and enjoy the season on PBS Sunday evenings.
Also, (non sequiter), I was so happy that Moonrise Kingdom got a nod at the Golden Globes tonight. I loved that movie!
Oh, wow, those cookies look amazing. I'm on the Swank Diet (for approx. a week) and am totally missing chocolate. Somehow, I suspect carob is *not* a good substitute, in spite of the claims in the book.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, just wanted to drop in to say I'm really enjoying your blog!
MS. CrankyPants
p.s. I recently watched all of Seasons 1 & 2 of Walking Dead on Netflix; Downton Abbey is on my list of Ways to Spend an Afternoon :)
Thanks for commenting! And I am glad you are enjoying my blog. I have an MS riddled brain, so there's lots of repetition in it.
DeleteGood luck with the Swank Diet; I hear it's very good for your heart.
Walking Dead doesn't sound appealing to me, but I watched DA as a marathon of episodes each night and loved it.
I'm all cookied out, but yours sound yummy. I, too, like meals cooked from scratch, and I've gotten the husband to make more and freeze the rest. I'm loving DA, but I DVR it and watch the following Saturday.
ReplyDeletePeace,
Muff
That sounds like a good plan; alas I don't have a DVR. Once I discovered (well, DH did the discovering) TV on the computer, I hardly watch the tube any more.
DeleteAfter your holiday blitz of cookie making, you deserve a break. We each have to give our hubbies kudos for their ways of helping us, don't we?
We cook in large quantities and freeze for later. And how wonderful it is, on nights when i feel like chewed string, to be able to reach into the freezer and pull out a tasty meal that I know I will like. Or, alternatively since he is a carnivore and I am not, to pull out two different meals and feed us both for the effort of opening the fridge and then the microwave. Joy and bliss.
ReplyDeleteI eat mostly vegetarian because DH is, and he does the meal preparation around here. I get my fixes for meat by buying a little lunch meat now and then; also, when I go to lunch.
DeleteAs for freezing the cookies... well, in theory it sounds like a good idea, but DH says what's the point? lol
Nope you cannot get to warm or else...you know...but I like the idea of cookies. I also bring home leftovers so I can enjoy another good meal the next day
ReplyDeleteCookies! We just ran out here. Perhaps because someone ate them all - like me. :) Our tele that the dvr is hooked up to died so I have lots of shows to catch up on now that the repair guy fixed it all up (freebee on Samsung dime).
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