Cooking With a Scatterbrain Mom and a Preggie!

So today we made moms famous no bake cookies. AKA skunk turds, haystacks, oatmeal droppings or $#!T cookies. Ya wanna recipe? go to www.allrecipes.com...what do I look like Betty Crocker, besides, if you finished this blog entry, you wouldn't take baking/cooking instructions from me.

these ones eh

Anyway, so the recipe calls for you to cook about half of the ingredients on the stovetop before mixing in the other half. Did we do this? No...that would have been too easy. It's much more fun to do this as a play so here goes my script.

The Tale of the No Bake Cookies

based on a true story

Enter stage right or stage left...I really don't care two ladies stirring ingredients in a gigantic bowl. 

Me: Does this look a little dry to you?

Ronnie (the fun pregnant woman...I stress the fact that she is pregnant, because she is quite possibly the cutest pregnant person that I know. She's glowing, she's happy and she is gonna make an awesome mom...wait...sorry I was writing a play here dammit):   Yeah it does...should I add some more milk?

Me: Nah...I'll just keep stirring it and it should be fine...you don't want it too watery anyway

about two minutes of silence passes as I aggressively try and stir and selvage this batter

Me:  Ya know my mom used to make these too...we called em $#!* cookies. Except that my mom would melt some of the ingredients first...oh...oops.

Ronnie: Uh...let me check the instructions....yepp...we were supposed to melt the cocoa, butter, milk and sugar together first.

Me: Of course

Still slowly stirring gritty concoction of sugary dry mess around in ginormous steel bowl, while pontificating the next step. (Oh God I love that word...pontificating...PON-TIFF-IH-CAY-TING...too cool. Damnit...I did it again...sorry guys. Back to the story)

Ronnie: Well we could scrap this stuff and make a fresh batch

*I swear she knows better. She lives by the rule "I may not throw out anything without Nicole's permission" Haha free spice rack.*

Me: no no....we can fix this...let's nuke this 

Ronnie's common knowledge saves me from putting big steel bowl in microwave. Transfer conglomerated mess into glass bowl. Nuke cookie batter for four minutes...batter is  good. 

We name the cookies Duke Nukem cookies...only cause we nuked em. I was very pleased with the results. They were good. My frugality and Ronnie's brains save the day...YAAAAAY!

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