The Cooke Family Website » cookies http://thecookes.org/wordpress Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:26:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 And so it begins… http://thecookes.org/wordpress/2009/03/30/and-so-it-begins http://thecookes.org/wordpress/2009/03/30/and-so-it-begins#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:57:44 +0000 Jolene http://thecookes.org/wordpress/?p=114 Continue reading →]]> Saturday night, after an evening out with friends, David needed some pancakes to soak up his beer.  We stopped at the Texan for ‘breakfast’ and it was yummy… and short lived.  We didn’t even make it half-way home when I was spending some quality time in the rain by the side of the road.  Lovely visual, eh?

Last night, after eating a late dinner, I ended up sick again.  Poor Ben has the sad luck of having the bedroom right across the hall from the bathroom.  I could hear him calling for me while David was pacing the hallway trying to make sure I was okay… ummm… no, no I wasn’t.  LOL

After scrubbing my teeth, I went into Ben’s room to explain morning sickness to him, only to have him reply, “but it’s not morning” which launched into another discussion about how silly of a name it is.  He went to sleep satisfied that I was perfectly fine.  And I was.  Once the food is forcibly evacuated, I feel perfectly normal… which is a good thing, I guess

And so begins the period of arbitrary food evacuation.

(peanut butter cookies seem to be staying down just fine, though!  LOL  Made Grandma Malley’s recipe tonight, but I altered it by adding splenda in place of half the sugar… not grandma’s cookies… but close.)

]]> http://thecookes.org/wordpress/2009/03/30/and-so-it-begins/feed 0 It’s all about the peanut butter! http://thecookes.org/wordpress/2009/03/25/its-all-about-the-peanut-butter http://thecookes.org/wordpress/2009/03/25/its-all-about-the-peanut-butter#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:35:58 +0000 Jolene http://thecookes.org/wordpress/?p=81 Continue reading →]]> I love to make these cookies.  They are fast and easy. The dirty dish count is 1 bowl, 1 measuring cup, and one fork.  If you use parchment paper, you won’t even dirty a pan.  From the moment you enter the kitchen to the time you are eating yummy cookies, it’s only been a half an hour… 10 minutes to get all the stuff out and then mix it up, 10 minutes to bake and then 10 minutes to cool… and for me, peanut butter cookies to calm the peanut butter cravings this tiny rice sized bit of wonder in my belly is giving me!  Nom nom nom!

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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar (or 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup splenda****)

1 egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix all 3 ingredients together in a bowl.  Roll into little balls and press down with a fork.

Bake for 8-10 minutes.  Cool for about 10 minutes and then gobble them up!

****IF YOU USE SPLENDA!!!****

Mix your sugar and splenda into the peanut butter and THEN add the egg.  For some reason, anything I have baked where splenda and egg are allowed to mingle together in a bowl, the resulting mess is very pudding-like (after it’s been baked)… not a great feature for a cookie.

Also, don’t try to go all splenda, either.  Tried it and failed.  The cookies fell apart the second I touched them, and what I did manage to get in my mouth, instantly adhered to the roof of my mouth for what seemed like hours!


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