If you have not yet gathered by the: blog title, big picture of a crazy bead plant, or the rambles of a sleep-deprived individual about plants and dirt and messy times, that this is a blog about gardening...
Well, there was your introduction.
I will occasionally post other interesting tid-bitties of info. about things not concerning gardening. Cause hey, I have other interests too! Like this and this and studying for this and also this delicious hobby.
So consider this my first off-topic post!
Delicious Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
4 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter (oh yeah)
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 (3.4 oz) packages instant pudding
4 cups chocolate chips
Do the normal stuff, mix dry ingredients first. Separately beat the wet ingredients, blah blah like normal cookies. But after you cream the butter and sugars add the pudding and then move along with the rest. Mix the dry and wet together. Bake at 350 for 9-12 minutes.
A few things I've noticed:
Now I know any baker would want to strangle me for saying this, but sometimes I am not really specific about measurements. The big stuff, yeah, but little piddly things like vanilla and what not, I do what I want yo! So the pudding situation. The recipe says 2-3.4 oz packs. Well, I've made these twice. The first time I had one package of chocolate pudding that was 4.6 oz. and I only made a half batch because damn, half a batch is plenty enough for two people. They came out wonderfully. The second time I had 2 packages of vanilla pudding coming in at 3 oz. each, and again I made only a half batch. They also came out delicious. So yeah, the pudding amount is debatable from my point of view. Also worth noting, at least the second time I didn't get instant pudding and still, yum-o (yeah OK Rachael Ray).
These cookies remind me of Freihofer chocolate chip cookies. So for those of you who have been graced with the Freihofer Taste of Heaven, then get ready because they are homemade now!
By the way, the knitting cat above. I actually hate cats, I like knitting though. Just thought I'd point that out in case you thought that cats were an interest of mine. They certainly are not. Well, unless they are someone else's cat and they just need a petting from me. I can do a petting.
Also, you know how hard it was to find a good picture of a nurse that wasn't a sexy nurse?
5 years ago
Just thought I'd stop by and say hi after seeing your comment at PATSP. Not a lot of indoor-gardening bloggers out there.
ReplyDeleteI also knit, in theory. It's been a good five years or so. Lots of blankets. I'll have to pull some out and do a picture sometime. They're sort of . . . well, a lot of them require explanation.
Anyway. Nice to see you. Comment anytime. I bookmarked your site, so I'll stop by every so often.
Must try immediately.
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