More Cookie Porn
Posted by Moose on August 21st, 2006. Filed under: I Live to Eat.Yesterday morning, we made savory scones. Did you know that you can add things to a recipe, things that aren’t already there, and the world doesn’t spontaneously implode, taking you and your inability to follow directions with it? I know. I was suprised too. Nor does the publishing house responsible for The Joy of Cooking call you up and request in pleasant, if slightly peeved, tones that you cease and desist immediately with the pepperjack cheese. Our scone recipe doesn’t call for bell peppers or artichoke hearts, so please put them back in the fridge immediately. Yes, we want you to pick out the peppers already in the dough. Yes, we want you to do it now.
So that was nice. We got savory scones and no one got in trouble. They were even quite tasty. This tasting good thing wasn’t a foregone conclusion, as the fridge was being ornery and only had half the cream necessary. I was insistent that this would ruin the scones, but substitution of milk for cream does not bring on the apocalypse as I previously suspected.
For dinner (if you care, which I know you do), there was fancy pants salad and lasagne – entirely from ingredients we had lying around the house. My status as a Subpar Grocery Shopper just got bumped up a notch to that of Almost Decent Grocery Shopper. It’s a proud day.
I’ve just had a thought. What happens if you steep your St. John’s Good Mood tea for longer than the recommended five minutes? Does your good mood turn to euphoria? Mania? Does the happiness render you insensible? Has anyone ever done this? Discuss.
Yes, I am aware that they make pills for people like me.
Savory scones: check. Lasagne: check. Fancy salad that had too many apples, but was otherwise quite pleasing: check. Good mood tea that may or may not make me manic: check.
Now check this:
Who brings you the cookie love? Those of you who asked for cookies will be getting cookies. I merrily added pecans before realizing that nuts can actually kill a certain segment of the population. This is bad for two reasons. 1) I don’t want you to die. 2) I don’t want my return address on anything that kills you. If you’re deathly allergic, or just don’t like pecans, speak now. I have to make more cookies anyway, as it’s very easy to reduce a pound bag of chips by half when they’re just sitting there, day after day, getting lonely.
Never let it be said that a chocolate chip gets lonely in my house.
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August 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
They look lovely, not lethal (or at least it wouldn’t harm this population segment – except for weight gain).
In regards to tea, it just makes it stronger, and perhaps bitter, which many people don’t care for. But it shouldn’t effect the dosage that much re: length of steep. I think they recommend 5 minutes to get a general recommended amount.
Do you find the St. John’s wort to do as promised? I’ve never sampled it. But I use other herbal extracts for other maladies. My favorite (but brutally evil) is valarian root tea for migraines. But it’s not a “sipping tea”. I save the PG Tips for that. I’ve liked your other tea recommendations, that’s why I ask.
August 21st, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Mmmm … cookie porn!
(I think I owe you an e-mail. But am working like crazy. And therefore only allowing myself to check blogs, not my e-mail. Because that’s productive.)
August 21st, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Mmmm…cookie porn. You sinner. ; )
August 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
I think I oversteeped some of the Good Mood Tea a long time back and it made me spaced out and kinda sleepy. To the point where my brother became quite curious about the tea and read the ingredients and declared that it must be the catnip that made me so spacey. (Seriously–catnip!) OK, so it wasn’t so much that I got spaced out as I that I bapped a ball under the couch, grew bored with trying to fish it out, and curled up on the laundry and took a nap instead. Just kidding. No I’m not. Yes I am. (Wait…am I delurking? Have I commented here before? Well, hi!)
August 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
mmmmm COOKIE PORN! Whooo!
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:56 am
You’re making me hungry…
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:09 pm
I really want to reach into my screen and grab one of those delicious looking cookies. Now I know how men must feel when they see Heidi Klum.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Hey! Hello! I found your fabulous blog/site when searching for information on “Good Mood tea”, which a friend was just raving about (which compelled me to order FIVE BOXES online today). I’m sorry to have to ask you this via your comments box to an old entry, but I don’t see an email address for you. So. Here’s my question: What are the effects of the tea like? Does it really improve your mood? What can I expect when I drink it? Anything you can tell me about it would be greatly appreciated. Gracias!
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