mini-success!

[Andrilla]

Today I was making cookies, which is one of my favorite things about this time of year. I was making peanut butter cookies, which I love to no end. I was stirring them and thinking about last year (or was it year before last?) when the peanut butter was contaminated. I was thinking about how the peanut butter had made so many people sick, how I couldn't eat my favorite things (peanut butter sandwiches, chocolate peanut butter cups, peanut butter cookies, those girl scout cookies with peanut butter, crackers with peanut butter between them) for so long because of it. Then I put the eggs in and I started thinking about them. Raw eggs are just really nasty and look like snot. Add in the fact that they can make you sick (although the likelyhood is very small compared to years ago), and YUCK! I hate raw eggs.

So I'm making the cookies and I'm thinking about contaminated peanut butter AND nasty raw eggs. And I'm thinking about how raw eggs were on my hands from when I rolled the cookies into balls. Sure, I washed them, but they could still have egg on them. I started to wonder if I was going to be able to enjoy the cookies.

When the cookies came out of the oven, first thing I did was grab one and stick it in my mouth! Soooo good!

[rachelj]

That's brilliant we really are our own worst enemies sometimes!

[olschesky]

go girl.....bet they are yummy

[turbokinetic]

Oh yeah, sounds like you love cookies like I do!

Glad you were able to enjoy them - Score one for Andrilla and 0 for emetophobia!

Now I have to go find cookies. Can not rest until I have cookies......

[Andrilla]

Ohh, I baked so many cookies today! Two batches of peanut butter, a batch of chocolate chips, ginger snaps (with a cinnamon red-hot in the middle!) and a batch of pumpkin bread. I am in cookie heaven! Next weekend I'm making sugar cookies, more chocolate chip cookies, gingerbread men, and peanut butter reindeer cookies. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/linderrox/2077586815/ these aren't mine, but it is the same recipe.) I LOVE making cookies! Ooh, maybe some peanut butter blossoms too, since I'm doing so well with peanut butter this year! (big Christmas party coming up, if you hadn't guessed)

David, if you lived near me you would have all the cookies you wanted right now, plus pumpkin bread. Hey, if any of you guys lived near me you would be getting a big batch of cookies right now. The people on this site has been so helpful and supportive through the good times and the bad times!

[turbokinetic]

Ohh, I baked so many cookies today!........David, if you lived near me you would have all the cookies you wanted right now, plus pumpkin bread. Hey, if any of you guys lived near me you would be getting a big batch of cookies right now. The people on this site has been so helpful and supportive through the good times and the bad times!

Awe! How kind of you!

I was at a hotel with a bake shop attached. Went downstairs after that post and bought two BIG, WARM, Chocolate Chip cookies. They were WONDERFUL!

Today it's freezin cold here and there's a 40 mph wind. Hope this doesn't indicate how bad the rest of winter will be.

Mom always bakes around the holidays. The smell of anything baking always brings to mind the holidays!

Later,
David

[abbu]

I wish I lived near you, I love cookies well done for not letting the anxiety take over!

[Holliee<3]

Way to go (:
I do that same thing, think too hard about foods that could be contaminated. So many times I've just went hungry because i was afraid to eat something, and i always get SO mad at myself for that. So good job!!