What better thing to do when you're trapped inside from MORE RAIN, and already bumming because the critters are eating your plants?
BAKE COOKIES!!
DD and I couldn't decide what kind sounded better and DH can't make decisions (no, really, I'm NOT JOKING), so we made...
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies
(yummies for the indecisive person)
INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the peanut butter, water and vanilla. Combine the flour and baking soda, stir into the creamed mixture. Finally, stir in the rolled oats and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an unprepared cookie sheet.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cookies are lightly toasted on the edges. Remove from the baking sheet to cool on wire racks.
***Now...***
Because I never, never ever make a recipe exactly as written, here are the changes I made:
1. I doubled the peanut butter (and if you use chunky peanut butter, it's even better).
2. I omitted the water.
3. I used multi-grain flour (I finally ground the grain I have, so I used flour from brown rice, oat groats and quinoa -- it LOOKS white, so my DH will eat what I bake. He won't eat stuff from whole wheat, so I fool him. Muh-ha-ha...)
4. I cut the sugar in half.
5. And, because I doubled the peanut butter, I cut back on the butter and used 1/2 cup.
6. I also cooked them for 14 minutes.
They are YUMMY!!! Even DH ate four with a glass of milk... and yes, you will need something to drink, these are not light, fluffy cookies. They have substance.
Enjoy!
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Pillar Place 2008 update:
ALL of the dill pillars are now pupa's -- one of them, clearly not so bright, made its pupa on the dill stem. I don't think that stem is going to last 10 - 14 days, so I'm considering what to do. Stupid pillar...
All but the two tiny parsley pillars we have are pupa or on walkabout. One of those pillars made its pupa on a parsley stem -- BUT, unlike the dill, the parsley stem just gets brown and woody when it gets old (the parsley had bolted, so the stems are a good half inch or more in diameter). Still, clearly I don't have the brightest pillars in the world.
Our first pupa, Bubba, should be hatching into a butterfly this week. I sure hope the rain stops!!!
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You Are 76% Tortured Genius |
 You are smart. Brilliant in fact. And while it's a blessing, it's also a curse. Your head is filled with everything - grand ideas, insufferable worries, and a good deal of angst. |
Ya see... Ahm brilliant! *G*
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7 comments:
Wow, these sound great... and perfect for those of us who can never make up our minds (and end up taking one of each!). It's a rainy day here, too -- these might be just the right thing to try today!
YUM!! What a GREAT recipe, Marianne!
Actually... what **I** picked up on from your quiz is "insufferable worries and a good deal of angst"... yep, that's you.
This is me:
You are very smart and a little bit tortured. Like a tortured genius in training.
You're brilliant enough to see how screwed up the world is. Just don't let it screw you up!
Yikes! You Are 80% Tortured Genius 80%?!?!
You Are 98% Tortured Genius
You totally fit the profile of a tortured genius. You're uniquely brilliant - and completely misunderstood.
Not like you really want anyone to understand you anyway. You're pretty happy being an island.
I can't cook with peanut butter since 9 is allergic to nuts (I could try substituting soy nut butter or toasted sunflower butter, I suppose), but I LOVE the idea of a white multi-grain flour, that is wheat-free. The oats give it enough gluten so you don't have to use a binder like Xantham Gum?
What kind of grinder do you use?
I'm 77%. Yeahhhhh, no. *G*
The cookies sound YUMMY and have now made me want to bake tonight. *G*
I hope you're having an enjoyable sunday and eating a cookie or two. *G*
Cookies sound yummy.
You Are 66% Tortured Genius
You are smart. Brilliant in fact. And while it's a blessing, it's also a curse.
Your head is filled with everything - grand ideas, insufferable worries, and a good deal of angst.
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