2 failures

I have been in a cooking mood recently. I am trying to eat better, and watch my salt in take, and not eat out so much.

On Sunday, I made stew, and it is great, if I say so my self. And it made enough to have for lunch all week. So my lunch this week is stew and a bag of carrots. Very yummy.

But my 2 failures have come on chocolate cookies. Last night, I started to make the cookies and I realized I did not have enough brown sugar, so I just substitute white sugar. And that made the cookies strangely not coherent. They just ell apart.

And tonight, I attempt to make chocolate cookies again... But tonight, I used you can't believe its not butter, and trust me, I can believe it is not butter. The cookies turned out fluffy and bland.

I guess this means that God does not want me eating cookies right now.

Baking

I am not a huge baker.. mostly because it is not much fun to cook for one.. but my mom was not going to have time to make cookies because of all the unpacking she had to do, so I volunteered. I made Chocolate chips cookies, Sugar Butter cut out cookies, and my new cookie this year was the brown sugar cookie. I liked these better then the other sugar cookies because they were much easier to make and I did not have to cut them out.. (they were drop cookies). The recipe is
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon backing powder

Cream sugar and butter until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Add and mix dry ingredients. Bake at 350 for 6 to 8 mins.

Easy and yummy.

Merry Christmas.