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alexseanchai) wrote2014-12-28 03:52 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2014-12-28 03:52 pm
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December Days 11: things I can do / qualities I express & compliments (dialecticdreamer)
things I can do or qualities I express, but am surprised when other people compliment me on them
Cooking. I like it. I get really frustrated by it. Nothing ever turns out how I want it to, though some times I get closer than other times. Like, I mentioned the other day (possibly under lock for reasons—I forget) the failcookies?
Monster cookies are essentially butter, peanut butter, oats, sugar, chocolate chips, and M&Ms (there's actually like twelve ingredients, but none of them are flour) tossed in a bowl and mixed and then tossed on cookie sheets and baked. Note the oats. They must be rolled oats. Not steel-cut oats. The shape, size, and texture are entirely different and using steel-cut oats in monster cookies results in monster ice cream topping. I found this out after running out of the gluten-uncontaminated rolled oats and substituting gluten-uncontaminated steel-cut oats for the remainder of the oats in the recipe. I got maybe a dozen cookies and about four times that weight of cookie crumbs.
And yet, when we brought the cookie stuff to the party yesterday, I got a stack of compliments on the cookies. And I'm all like wtf why—these are failcookies!
Cooking. I like it. I get really frustrated by it. Nothing ever turns out how I want it to, though some times I get closer than other times. Like, I mentioned the other day (possibly under lock for reasons—I forget) the failcookies?
Monster cookies are essentially butter, peanut butter, oats, sugar, chocolate chips, and M&Ms (there's actually like twelve ingredients, but none of them are flour) tossed in a bowl and mixed and then tossed on cookie sheets and baked. Note the oats. They must be rolled oats. Not steel-cut oats. The shape, size, and texture are entirely different and using steel-cut oats in monster cookies results in monster ice cream topping. I found this out after running out of the gluten-uncontaminated rolled oats and substituting gluten-uncontaminated steel-cut oats for the remainder of the oats in the recipe. I got maybe a dozen cookies and about four times that weight of cookie crumbs.
And yet, when we brought the cookie stuff to the party yesterday, I got a stack of compliments on the cookies. And I'm all like wtf why—these are failcookies!
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Much like most art, really.
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Heh. Fair enough.
Failcookies
I'd cut down the sugar and call it granola, myself, LOL. NOT a fail. (Why, yes, I'd leave the M&M's in if I could have them...)
Btw, I adore steel cut oats with a drizzle of either /real/ honey or /real/ maple syrup and a bit of toasted flax seed. My kids and hubby /all/ call this food "Mom's cement mix." If I tried to serve it to them, THAT is a food fail. Take the same texture of steel cut oats, add in some blueberries and chopped cashews and I can't even find the POT for the crowd. Not fail.
Your cookie topping DEFINITELY comes under the 'not fail' category.
Re: Failcookies