she says i'm much too thin, she asks me if i'm sick

IMG_7778, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

Remember that healthy eating kick? I’m still totally on it, but I am not made of stone.

These cookies are – according to Smells Like Dessert – the absolute Holy Grail of chocolate chip cookies. I’m not entirely sure I agree – they’re good, but they’re not so good that I’m going to quit on my trusty family recipe. (They are also HUGE. Like, ENORMOUS. I can see why the recipe calls for making them so large, because they are a lot softer having been baked like that, but. This definitely makes giant, Starbucks-sized cookies, and one is more than enough.)

I also did something a bit weird with this recipe, which may be why I didn’t love them quite as passionately as the original blogger. When I went to start baking, I discovered that my brown sugar was hopelessly hard and unusable, so I tried a substitution gleaned from the internet: one cup of white sugar and a quarter cup of molasses to replace one cup of brown sugar. It worked out – the texture of the cookies is perfect, and they’re not too sweet – but there is a bit of a molasses-y aftertaste. I don’t mind it, really? But it definitely changed the character of the cookies.

Song of the Entry: Jack’s Mannequin – Holiday From Real

if there's any other way

2008/10/06, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

One of the really important things I learned while I was doing my undergrad is that there are very few things that cannot be put into perspective after a nice cup of mint tea and some dessert. I am just saying.

Song of the Entry: Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti

as you pass by, you'll see.

2008/10/05, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

This is what my cookies look like when they’re finished. I enjoy making cookie pyramids, for effect. Somehow it just feels like I’ve accomplished more this way.

Song of the Entry: Joshua Radin – Vegetable Car