With my main squeeze out of town for the week, I've had to find something to fill my day, aside from the doctor appointments (3 this week!), and what do you suppose I turn to? You got it.
Chocolate chip cookies. So far the best recipe I've found is Hershey's Perfect Chocolate Chip cookies (it's on their website). I ran into a couple of challenges, though. As I'm not in my own place, and all my kitchen goodies and gadgets are in storage, I had to get a little inventive. From my previous posts, you know that I fashioned a smoker out of a used disposable grill (I'm so proud of that one), so I knew I could overcome the obstacles facing me. First, there's no mixer here. Dan cooks, but he doesn't bake. There also are no large mixing bowls. Digging around in the cabinet, I found an old food processer and knew then that cookies would be forthcoming.
Now that I no longer have satellite tv I can't listen to Sirius music while in the kitchen, so I turned on the local oldies station on the receiver connected to bose speakers in the living room and while the house rocked, I got started.
Lady Marmalade led me through creaming the butter and sugar in the processer. In fact this procedure was continuing through Al Green's Let's Stay Together, as the equipment at hand is ancient. Finding no large mixing bowls, I ended up adding the flour, salt and baking soda mixture to the processer. Ozark Mountain Daredevils sang about Jackie Blue during this phase.
It took a while, as I had to stop and scrape down the sides occasionally (and pray the machine didn't break down under the strain). Believe me, I was watching for smoke.
I stirred in the chocolate chips, then paused for a dance break when the Temptations busted into Can't Get Next To You (love that song). I dropped the batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet, and the baking was under way. Now this oven seems to have one temperature--HOT--so I had to watch my babies carefully. They came out perfectly. I piled them on a plate, took a picture with my phone and sent it to Dan in Florida. Ok, some women send pics of themselves, I send pics of food. Wait til he gets a pic of the surprise I'm making for his return home! I'll chronicle that in my next post.
Way to go to my sis (www.cosmomartini.blogspot.com) on her first foray into ribs. She says they were delicious. That just swellzeded up my heart.
Stay tuned food fans!
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