Wired
I am, on occasion, dumb.
I've been sitting here for a few minutes, contemplating my excessively wired condition. I feel almost buzzed, except that I haven't indulged today at all. In alcohol, that is.
I had a cup of coffee this morning, and two diet pills. A cup of Irish Breakfast tea mid-morning. A Coke with lunch, and two more diet pills. And another cup of Irish Breakfast tea beside me right now.
Hello, caffeine buzz.
My friend Jen is a very very good friend. Her Christmas gifts to me included a clock to replace the one that was stolen from my desk at work, and a Chuckles, the Former Congressman 2008 Calendar (Dooce fans unite!). She also made an itty bitty pet photo album of my Flickr photos, on Snapfish. I heart Jen.
The clock has a temperature gauge. When I got to my desk this morning, it was reading 66.6 degrees. An ominous temperature. Right now it's 72.6 in my cubicle. And barely fifty degrees outside. Sweater weather has graduated to coat weather. Hallelujah.
I handed out packets of fudge to my co-workers yesterday. It has been proclaimed by many to be the richest, creamiest, sweetest, fudgiest fudge they have every had. Go forth and make some.
Lilly still hasn't sent me updated photos of Robert, Devlin and Roman. It looks like I shall have to drive over to Texas myself and beat her about the head and shoulders. Lilly, if you're reading this, consider yourself warned.
I have to make six tins of cookies to hand out as gifts next week. I want to have a variety of types; does anyone have any favorite Christmas cookie recipes that they'd like to share? I'm already making Magic Cookie Bars, Walnut Chews, Vanilla Rum Balls, Hershey's Kiss Cookies, and Chocolate Coconut Snowballs.
Hmm. On second thought, maybe I have enough variety. OH! I know. I'll make a batch of chocolate chip cookies... and I just hunted around on my website because I could SWEAR that I posted this recipe before, but I can't find it. Calvin, who is excessively picky about his cookies, raved over these (recipe courtesy of RecipeZaar):
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
36 cookies
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1/4 cup sugar
1 (4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups chocolate chips
Preheat oven 350 degrees.
Combine flour and baking soda.
In a large bowl beat brown sugar, sugar, butter, shortening, pudding mix, vanilla, and almond extract.
Mix until well blended.
Add eggs and mix well.
Beat in the flour mixture.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded teaspoonful and bake 10-12 minutes.
Do not overcook! The cookies will still be soft when you remove them from the baking sheet, transfer them to wire racks to cool completely. There are limitless possibilities with this recipe - use chocolate pudding and caramel chips (our favorite), coconut pudding and white chocolate chips, or vanilla pudding with peanut butter chips. I also used a full cup of butter instead of 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening, and it turned out just fine.
I've been sitting here for a few minutes, contemplating my excessively wired condition. I feel almost buzzed, except that I haven't indulged today at all. In alcohol, that is.
I had a cup of coffee this morning, and two diet pills. A cup of Irish Breakfast tea mid-morning. A Coke with lunch, and two more diet pills. And another cup of Irish Breakfast tea beside me right now.
Hello, caffeine buzz.
My friend Jen is a very very good friend. Her Christmas gifts to me included a clock to replace the one that was stolen from my desk at work, and a Chuckles, the Former Congressman 2008 Calendar (Dooce fans unite!). She also made an itty bitty pet photo album of my Flickr photos, on Snapfish. I heart Jen.
The clock has a temperature gauge. When I got to my desk this morning, it was reading 66.6 degrees. An ominous temperature. Right now it's 72.6 in my cubicle. And barely fifty degrees outside. Sweater weather has graduated to coat weather. Hallelujah.
I handed out packets of fudge to my co-workers yesterday. It has been proclaimed by many to be the richest, creamiest, sweetest, fudgiest fudge they have every had. Go forth and make some.
Lilly still hasn't sent me updated photos of Robert, Devlin and Roman. It looks like I shall have to drive over to Texas myself and beat her about the head and shoulders. Lilly, if you're reading this, consider yourself warned.
I have to make six tins of cookies to hand out as gifts next week. I want to have a variety of types; does anyone have any favorite Christmas cookie recipes that they'd like to share? I'm already making Magic Cookie Bars, Walnut Chews, Vanilla Rum Balls, Hershey's Kiss Cookies, and Chocolate Coconut Snowballs.
Hmm. On second thought, maybe I have enough variety. OH! I know. I'll make a batch of chocolate chip cookies... and I just hunted around on my website because I could SWEAR that I posted this recipe before, but I can't find it. Calvin, who is excessively picky about his cookies, raved over these (recipe courtesy of RecipeZaar):
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
36 cookies
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1/4 cup sugar
1 (4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups chocolate chips
Preheat oven 350 degrees.
Combine flour and baking soda.
In a large bowl beat brown sugar, sugar, butter, shortening, pudding mix, vanilla, and almond extract.
Mix until well blended.
Add eggs and mix well.
Beat in the flour mixture.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded teaspoonful and bake 10-12 minutes.
Do not overcook! The cookies will still be soft when you remove them from the baking sheet, transfer them to wire racks to cool completely. There are limitless possibilities with this recipe - use chocolate pudding and caramel chips (our favorite), coconut pudding and white chocolate chips, or vanilla pudding with peanut butter chips. I also used a full cup of butter instead of 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening, and it turned out just fine.
oh, lovely. and i'm going to definitely try the fudge. and so to reciprocate, the best cookies i've ever made which are also simple and have magical powers that make me eat dozens at a time hence gaining mad weight and all:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/376430
love,
crystal
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