Butterscotch and Gingerbread...oh, and Curves.

No, not curves like ill lose all the good ones and get bad ones if i eat all the the cookies I baked last night...though that is the truth, fo sho...

I baked Butterscotch and gingerbread cookies last night. Its a longstanding tradition for me and I have been backing them every holiday season since highschool. Along with Peppermint/Chocolate swirly refrigirator cookies and snickerdoodles. And a pie or two.

Its amazing im not 300 lbs. I just feed the spoils to my friends. Haha.

Anyway, I am really very sorry I didn't take pictures of the process, but its super duper easy. Like Uber easy! I mean it. Just mix dry and wet separately (except sugar, mix that with the wet), then incorporate, make into tablespoon sized balls, and cook for ten minutes at 350. I wouldnt steer you wrong, would i?

Now just hold on while i get a picture of the finished product...unless Jrod ate them all for breakfast. He couldnt stop eating them last night. Theyre really sweet, but thats why boys and kids love them :P.
Haha! Yummy cookies! Now let me find the recipe... It is not of my own creation, rather something i found on AllRecipes when I was in high school that became a favorite of both me and friends.

Recipe (from this link, if you should want to see the original, there are reviews and commentary and a bunch of other fun stuff and recipes at this site)

INGREDIENTS

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 cup light molasses
• 1 (11 ounce) package NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Butterscotch Flavored Morsels

DIRECTIONS

1. PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F.
2. COMBINE flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt in small bowl.
3. BEAT butter, sugar, egg and molasses in large mixer bowl until creamy. Gradually beat in flour mixture until well blended. Stir in morsels. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
4. BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

YUM :)

Happy Baking guys!

Miele

Good Samaritan

Last night was very cold, it snowed a bit, and I don't have a car, I ride the bus usually, and it made me think.

I got out of work early, and thought my boyfriend was going to pick me up, alot of people lent me their phones so I could call him to find out if he was or when he was, so I could make sure I wasn't stranded. It turned out I was lucky I called because I did need to ride the bus home, there had been some miscommunication (I was running on 2 hours of sleep) and he needed to go home to Saginaw. So I rode back to campus. Now, it was very very cold last night, and the bus ride from campus to my apartment is a pain, so on the way I dropped by my old dorm thinking "Well, I would give a friend a ride if it was cold and they didnt want to take a bus, why wouldn't one of my friends do the same for me." Apparently I think too highly of humanity, which I already knew. The lobby was filled with my friends, several of whom had cars, most of whom know im willing to give gas money if im given a ride somewhere. Especially if that somewhere is out of their way and for no reason of theirs. No one obliged. I didnt really think I needed to wave cash in their faces, how uncouth?!

So I walked away, mentioned briefly how i could have given them a little cash or compensation, and headed toward the bus stop, and a sweet girl came out of the woodworks to offer me a ride. She gave me a ride home, she was a freshman, first semester in the dorms. I offered her a few dollars and she refused to take it. But I left it with her anyway-- it was just the cash I had on me, I would have given her a little more, and kind of wish I had asked her if we could have gone by Exxon so I could have filled her tank at least half for giving me a ride on such a cold night. I don't really know her, but I'll give her something small for the holidays.

I was just so shocked that a girl I didn't even know offered to help me, but several of my friends who were hardly studying just mocked me when I was standing there asking for a ride kindly-- in a situation where I would have helped them. I guess I know who my true friends are.

Miele

Pasta Carbonara. Or, How to take ten years off your life in a tasty manner.

I may have mentioned before that I love love love to cook. So yesterday at the store, Jared picks up a roast and says, "Ill get this roast for later in the week if you do dinner tonight." I agreed, of course. I mean, I love to cook. He then proceeded to invite C, G, and D over. -.- At that point I looked at him (While choosing linguine) And said, "what am I, cooking a fucking feast?" ...Apparently.

So, I made Pasta carbonara. I got the recipe off of The Pioneer Woman the link to the recipe itself is here. I made it a tiny bit bigger, (I was feeding myself plus 4 sorta growing boys) and I forgot the parsley, a mistake I wont make again but it really didnt seem to make a difference because they all scarfed it down, and D scarfed down everything that was left in the big bowl, as well as everything that was left of everyone elses. -.- Double Steak Anialator, hahaha. Anyway, i would def make this recipe again, I love Ree's site, its fantastic.

A change in the tides

I thought of Amelie tonight, and what she did for me. Another blogger made me think of her.

The nuanced beauty that is in everything and so often ignored, is what the movie makes me think of