COOOOOKKKKIIIIEEEESSSS!!!!

Let's just say I love Sesame Street. Hanging out with David's niece this week, I got to read a lot of Cookie Monster books. Reading these made me want to make cookies even more than I ever have.

I've never been too much of a cookie person. In fact, the only cookie I liked for a long time was oatmeal raisin. I liked those because they were usually moist and most cookie places don't try to make them unless they have a delicious recipe. The worst thing in the world, to me, was when you take a big bite out of a seemingly-oatmeal raisin cookie and what you get is chocolate chips. TERRIBLE!!

Well, then I started working in a newsroom. When you work for the media, you are poor. You are so poor that sometimes the newsroom will feed you. You aren't picky. If it's food, you'll eat it. If it's 8 in the morning, you'll eat the meatloaf they just made in the in-studio kitchen. If it's 9 p.m., you'll eat those breakfast tacos. Overall, you'll eat anything. This is how my diet adapted. And, working in a station that was close to the illustrious Tiff's Treats, there were almost always a batch of cookies in the newsroom. So, I became a little more open-minded with my cookies.

So, tonight was the night. I made chocolate chip cookies. Why? Because it was all I could make with the supplies in my pantry. Well, turns out I had a lot of extra supplies. Note to self: Next time you're going to the grocery and you ask your loving, adorable husband if we have brown sugar and he answers "No," go make sure to double check. Outside of the overstock of brown sugar, I started cooking.

Now, since it was a Cooking Light recipe, we had to use egg whites instead of eggs. I actually have an egg white separator, a utensil in my kitchen that I struggle with. I know, it seems really simplistic. However, since it was just given to me, I didn't really understand how to use it. I always just used my hands to separate eggs. So, it dawned on me. If I move the egg separator, I'll bet it'll work. AND TA-DA! It did! I had my first, successful egg separator experience. I was so excited. I think the key was balancing the egg separator initially on the edge of the bowl and then immediately pick it up and start moving it around. Now, I've learned.

Now, since my family wasn't too into cookies, we never really cooked them at home. Thus, it's very foreign to me that people want to eat the cookie dough. Some people will make cookie dough and never actually get to the cookie state. It wasn't until I started getting into ice cream (another slow developer here) and really got into cookie dough ice cream that I got it. I mean, those big round pieces of cookie dough were so delicious. Even better than the ice cream, if you ask me. So, whenever I make cookies, I still forget that David loves cookie dough. So, this time I remembered. And as the cookies were baking, we feasted on the dough.

And, suddenly, I pulled them out of the oven only a short 15 minutes later. I would have to say letting cookies cool is one of the hardest things in the kitchen. The smell is everywhere. Every five seconds, David was wandering into the kitchen asking "Can I have cookies yet?" like a 5-year-old. After they cooled, I sat down with two cookies, a glass of milk and watched Baggage on GSN (otherwise known as the best show on television). Example below of Baggage:


The cookies got a 4.5 out of 5. In all honesty, though, they were cheating. They were cookies.