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A picspam, for your enjoyment/edification. Including recipe. I may never live up to the kitchen standards set by my dear gourmet chef jessl, but I make hella awesome cookies.
You may want to begin by praying to the kitchen gods. In my family's case, these are Buddha (twice), a Zulu thing our Tulane student brought back from Mardi Gras, Jesus, the fire-breathing nun, Rosie the Riveter, a Chik-fil-A cow, and Albert Einstein.
A "baking playlist" of sorts is also a nice idea. Here's mine.
Get all your ingredients out first. These are:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. (That's around 190 Celsius.)
Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in small bowl.
Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in large mixing bowl until smooth and creamy.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. (Incidentally, you should never crack the eggs directly into the mixing bowl. Crack them into another bowl first to make sure they aren't rotten/don't have any funny bits in them. Cracking eggs is my favorite part of baking!)
Beat in flour mixture gradually. (I know you aren't supposed to eat the dough because consuming raw eggs is bad for you. But 1) he did it in Nacho Libre and 2) I've been doing this for years and haven't died of salmonella yet.)
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until they look satisfactorily browned. Make sure you have your kitchen timer going.
Should you happen to have 2 timers, 2 baking sheets, and 2 racks in your oven, you can get it done twice as fast!
Sometimes it gets boring waiting around for those darn cookies to bake. I like to entertain myself. I hate to leave the kitchen with anything in the oven, so I make sure to have some reading material on hand.
Rahr! Oven mitt attack!
Spread tinfoil on the countertop next to the stove. It's a good place to let the cookies cool so that they don't stick together before you transfer them to a plate.
Make sure to sample one; I happen to prefer my cookies crisp enough that other people refer to them as "burnt", so I take the one from the very back of the baking sheet.
Clean up after yourself! No one likes a dirty kitchen.
And here you have it, the finished product! I labeled the plates "crisp" and "chewy" for those discriminating cookie eaters who care.
In other news, this morning my cat, Colby (who is at least 15 years old) had very bad diarrhea and came inside all sickly-like. Moe and I gave her a bath and had to make her drink water using a syringe. She seems all right now. What'll I do without her when I have to go off to college?
Further picspams, in case you want to see me/my cat/my bedroom.
I love my Colbs/Colblet/Tuna/Tunie Fish/Kiki-Cat. My dad is trying to teach her to roll over. Yeah, good luck with that.
Sumi ink and watercolour paintings by Andy Lee, my art class' former Zen painting master. OMG he rocks. His website is findandy.com, and you should all check it out. He's a totally amazing person, in addition to being a very interesting artist.
Shoes, books, guitar, Gravitation messenger bag, and the Gone With the Wind soundtrack in LP form.
My GWTW posters (OMG Clark Gable watches me sleep).
Dolls, stuffed animals... Isn't the hammock cute? It was my stepmom's idea when my dad wanted to get rid of my collection.
My bed, decorated with animals, pillows, my diary, and the book I'm currently reading (Perfectly Reasonable Deviations, a collection of the letters of Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, bongo player, safecracker, professional choreographer, and eccentric genius extraordinaire).
Manga (boy's love, robots, and samurai), a Harry Potter action figure, and my cell phone.
LOTR and related books, and two of my 2006 diaries.
...Well, that's all, folks! I'm so fucking proud of this entry. I'm trying to convince myself that's not pathetic.
You may want to begin by praying to the kitchen gods. In my family's case, these are Buddha (twice), a Zulu thing our Tulane student brought back from Mardi Gras, Jesus, the fire-breathing nun, Rosie the Riveter, a Chik-fil-A cow, and Albert Einstein.
A "baking playlist" of sorts is also a nice idea. Here's mine.
Get all your ingredients out first. These are:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. (That's around 190 Celsius.)
Combine flour, salt, and baking soda in small bowl.
Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in large mixing bowl until smooth and creamy.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. (Incidentally, you should never crack the eggs directly into the mixing bowl. Crack them into another bowl first to make sure they aren't rotten/don't have any funny bits in them. Cracking eggs is my favorite part of baking!)
Beat in flour mixture gradually. (I know you aren't supposed to eat the dough because consuming raw eggs is bad for you. But 1) he did it in Nacho Libre and 2) I've been doing this for years and haven't died of salmonella yet.)
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until they look satisfactorily browned. Make sure you have your kitchen timer going.
Should you happen to have 2 timers, 2 baking sheets, and 2 racks in your oven, you can get it done twice as fast!
Sometimes it gets boring waiting around for those darn cookies to bake. I like to entertain myself. I hate to leave the kitchen with anything in the oven, so I make sure to have some reading material on hand.
Rahr! Oven mitt attack!
Spread tinfoil on the countertop next to the stove. It's a good place to let the cookies cool so that they don't stick together before you transfer them to a plate.
Make sure to sample one; I happen to prefer my cookies crisp enough that other people refer to them as "burnt", so I take the one from the very back of the baking sheet.
Clean up after yourself! No one likes a dirty kitchen.
And here you have it, the finished product! I labeled the plates "crisp" and "chewy" for those discriminating cookie eaters who care.
In other news, this morning my cat, Colby (who is at least 15 years old) had very bad diarrhea and came inside all sickly-like. Moe and I gave her a bath and had to make her drink water using a syringe. She seems all right now. What'll I do without her when I have to go off to college?
Further picspams, in case you want to see me/my cat/my bedroom.
I love my Colbs/Colblet/Tuna/Tunie Fish/Kiki-Cat. My dad is trying to teach her to roll over. Yeah, good luck with that.
Sumi ink and watercolour paintings by Andy Lee, my art class' former Zen painting master. OMG he rocks. His website is findandy.com, and you should all check it out. He's a totally amazing person, in addition to being a very interesting artist.
Shoes, books, guitar, Gravitation messenger bag, and the Gone With the Wind soundtrack in LP form.
My GWTW posters (OMG Clark Gable watches me sleep).
Dolls, stuffed animals... Isn't the hammock cute? It was my stepmom's idea when my dad wanted to get rid of my collection.
My bed, decorated with animals, pillows, my diary, and the book I'm currently reading (Perfectly Reasonable Deviations, a collection of the letters of Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, bongo player, safecracker, professional choreographer, and eccentric genius extraordinaire).
Manga (boy's love, robots, and samurai), a Harry Potter action figure, and my cell phone.
LOTR and related books, and two of my 2006 diaries.
...Well, that's all, folks! I'm so fucking proud of this entry. I'm trying to convince myself that's not pathetic.