First Post for March 2010

SO how is everyone doing on your first couple of days? Mine have been okay. Yesterday was a bit of a challenge as I was away from home. When you are close to home you can always come back home for food, but when you are far it takes some good planning in advance.

The other part I forgot was a challenge was remember to take pictures of the food before I eat it. Last night was a classic spagetti and tonight was pork chops. One thing I have been doing more of is baking. Our favorites have been chocolate chip cookies. We just use the recipie on the back of Chipits bag, but with a couple of modifications.

Here's our recipie:

1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of shortening
1 c. of brown sugar
1/2 c. of white sugar
2 eggs
splash of vanilla
Mix all of this together

2 cups of flour
a couple of shakes of salt
1 tsp of baking soda

Mix that in. Then add 2 cups of chocolate chips.

Bake in oven at 375 for 10 minutes for the first batch and 9 minutes for each batch after.
Makes about 4 dozen and they are delicious.

Any other updates?

Jenn