Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies with Oatmeal.... mouthful? Yes, please.

While I was going ballistic in my kitchen trying to kill the plague of fruit flies that have bombarded my kitchen, I decided I wanted to make some cookies. In between mixing the sugars with the applesauce, the flour with the baking soda, I was putting out bowls of Apple Cider Vinegar to kill these little monsters that fly EVERYWHERE in my house for no reason. There isn't any fruit left out. No standing water. Trash is always taken out, and is clean. I am going to destroy these fruit flies if it is the end of my kitchen days! AH! ....

Cookies. Right... Cookies. The applesauce was wonderful in these cookies. They make them a little flat, and really chewy, but the taste is better than I expected. My little brother is highly impressed, but he definitely has different taste buds than I do. He also doesn't realize they are low fat ... mwahwah.

I would say the best part is the chocolate chips stay melted and gooey. I didn't burn a single batch, so they were as soft as you would ever want them, but they lacked the true "chocolate chip cookie" taste. Chocolate chip cookies are always expected to be puffy and warm ... and easier to pull apart than these are. Ha. These are very sweet, but not overpowering. I have tried a better recipe for applesauce oatmeal raisin cookies, so I will probably continue to try recipes with applesauce. Love it!

Not as pretty as they taste

Lemony Goodness

As you may have seen in a previous post, HR lady, Laura made me the most amazing lemon cookies. These gooey, dense, savory cookies that I could not put down totally caught me by surprise. They were cake cookies! Laura was sweet enough to give me the recipe, so I set off on my adventure of making my own.

In my attempt at making lemon cookies, I realized I quite possibly need a new cookie sheet, because everything keeps getting too brown on the bottom! It's driving me insane.

About the cookies. The cookies I have been waiting for to devour and keep all to myself... These were disappointingly not near as good as Laura's. They were soft, but tasted burnt... They weren't cooked all the way when I was able to get them out in time to not turn black on the bottom. What.The.Heck?! I am assuming this is baker's error, but it still frustrates me.

Lemon Cookie Batter

Next time. Always next time.

French Onion Pot Roast

Today I was finally able to get into my kitchen and have Ollie clean up a little... Due to my bum arm, I have had to be really careful cooking and cleaning. Of course I've not been as careful as I should, but whaaatever!

I was so impressed with myself today grocery shopping, I saved over $55 and only spent $60! Hoorah! So in celebration, I decided to make a pot roast... Yup, that's how I celebrate. I tried it a different way this time, with a french onion packet that I had lying around the cupboard... It smelled delicious, but I think I realized, I am not the hugest fan of pot roast! It could have been that I left out the potatoes and carrots... buuuut I just wasn't that impressed.

Speaking of things lying around my cupboards... they are always full of everything and anything you could ever desire. The three of us (Me, the boyfriend and the brother) could easily live on what we have for more than a month. I should probably never go grocery shopping, but the desire to eat something at that very moment that you have been pining over all day? Totally wins.

Overstuffed cupboards

Anywho - Tonight's menu is peach cobbler, pot roast, mashed potatoes and asparagus. MMM!!!

Peach Cobbler