Last night I was able to draw some energy from my reserves in order to make some cookies. Pink Haired Cyn suggested I put my white choco chips to use in some white chip macadamia cookies and I thought that was an exceedingly good idea, so I went for it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a good straight-up vegan recipe that met the bill so I went with a recipe for White Chocolate/Coconut/Macadamia cookies on Recipezaar. The only non-vegan items were butter (I subbed in margarine) and egg (I used flaxseed/water) so I figured it should be pretty straight-forward. The recipe called for a whole (12 oz) bag of white choco chips but I only had about 2/3 of a 10.5oz bag so I had to half the recipe. I must say that as I was making these cookies I was very skeptical that they would turn out at all. Luckily, my skepticism was vanquished after I tasted these yummy morsels. I put a couple pictures up on my Flickr page but I’ve included one here for those of you who don’t like clicking links (seriously, who are you!??!). I was a bit disappointed by the look (they were a bit on the pale side) but the taste was right so, who’s to complain?

Of course, it wouldn’t be a baking experience with Sat unless I somehow managed to botch the instructions. Luckily, my error was limited to substituting granulated sugar for the intended brown sugar. Oh, and I guess the fact that I initially forgot to chop of the macadamias could be construed as another mishap, but I was able to fish them out before I mixed them in. The moral of the story? I still can’t follow a recipe!

Before I wrap up this post, I’ll leave with a few random bits of news.

• My trip to the car dealership today was a complete joke. When I got there, the guy asked me to turn the car on (I was all ready to hand over the keys), he jumped in the passenger seat, noticed the “Passenger Airbag Off” light wasn’t on and said, “Your car is fine.” After some initial disbelief (this was a full-sized guy and it was supposed to only be a problem with petite individuals) he convinced me that everything was working properly, just not the light. For Colleen’s sake, I hope he’s right.
• Rubi and Roxy have been up to it again. This weekend and into Monday they were in a “lets pee everywhere except the litterbox” frenzy. Colleen was convinced that it was just a behavior thing so she managed to get a second litterbox from a friend at work. The problem: on Monday I noticed that some of the pee had blood in it. Not good. I couldn’t tell who really had the problem so we were on the lookout for anymore bad behavior but, surprisingly, there has been none. I just hope all is well with our kittehs.

Well, that’s about it for this little blog entry. Stay tuned for more wonderful news from BaconAndTofu Land.

- Sat

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