The plate says it all. Life is short. Buy the shoes. That is so true, because you never know when you will move to a foreign country and shoes will not be as plentiful as they once were. And if you move to Asia, the majority of the population has small feet, and someone with a size 8.5 foot (like me) cannot find shoes to fit. Now, many of you know how much I love shoes, well let me just say Zappos and 6pm have been staying busy because of me. OH, this is a cookie blog isn’t it? Sorry, back to business…..
I got this recipe from one of my favorite websites, CookieMadness. This woman is amazing, she bakes every single day! I imagined she was as large as a house, which kept me going, until one day she posted a photo of herself. My image was shot, she is a very slim, nice looking woman, not the cookie monster I have envisioned. Slim, and bakes great cookies - her husband must be in heaven.
7 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour, sifted or fluffed up and measured lightly
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. quick-cooking rolled oats
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 13×9 inch pan with foil and spray foil with cooking spray.
Melt chocolate in a bowl set over, but not touching, a saucepan of simmering water. Alternatively, you may use the microwave.
Cream butter, brown sugar and peanut butter in a mixing bowl. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt, and add to creamed mixture. Stir just until well mixed then stir in the oats
Spread about three quarters of the dough into the prepared pan. Spread with the melted chocolate over the dough. Scoop up bits of remaining peanut butter dough and drop them over the melted chocolate so that you have speckled looking bars.
Bake for 25 minutes. Cool completely and cut into bars. Makes about 2 dozen bars.
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I went back to the fish market this week. This time I took a cab, (last time I took the subway) when the cab dropped us off, he dropped us at a different alley – WOW! I was so excited, just ask my friends that went with me, I think I might get overly excited at things here, because everything is a new experience. I must have a little feel of what it is be like to be a baby, learning and seeing new things every day. Back to my new alley, the alley was lined with fresh veggies, & they had BEAN SPROUTS! Remember, I told you I couldn’t find bean sprouts, well, I just need to venture out a little more, head downs some alleys, and there they are! Next time I make my Thai Chicken Wraps, I can make them the proper way, bean sprouts and all. Not only did they have bean sprouts, they had more than one type of bean sprout, as well as many types of peppers, lettuce leaves, eggplant, and more! They also had little shops along the way that sell Korean goodies, I bought some seaweed wrap, and I bought these… My Korean friend that went with me on this trip told me these were like Rice Krispie Treats, well, I don’t know who has made Rice Krispie Treats for her in the past, but they obviously made them incorrectly, because these little “treats” are nothing like Rice Krispie Treats. I need to make American RKT’s for her. I have discovered the secret of why you don’t see many large Korean’s; it is because they don’t really know how to make a proper dessert. I don’t think they have discovered butter, chocolate chips and heavy whipping cream yet. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that my children are eating Korean desserts, but when I have a craving for good slice of chocolate cake, or something sweet, I turn to my kitchen and I bake something. This is what I made with the chum chi I bought at the fish market. I have made this before and we loved it. This time it was even better because my fish was so fresh! I got this recipe from my good pal Tyler Florence, it is in his cookbook Eat This Book. It is a great cookbook, I suggest you buy it. Maybe if I sell enough of them Tyler will come over and cook for me. President George W Bush was here on Yongsan yesterday. If I had thought about it, I would have done something special to mark the day, something like wearing red, white and blue, as well as cooking with all red, white and blue, but as it is, I did nothing. (I do have flags in my flower garden, that should count for something right?) I could have gone to watch the motorcade as it drove through post, but I didn't. I am so lame. There I go using that word again. However I did tell my children that the President of the United States was here on post. Boy 2 wanted more information, where is he, what is he doing here, is he coming to our house for dinner? Oh to be so young and innocent. As we were driving around post, Boy 2 was looking out his window, looking for the President. After looking for a while, he said, “Mom, I’m looking for the President, but I kind of forgot what he looks like”. How sweet is that? He really thought he was going to get to see the President. Boy 1 was at soccer camp when the Presidential motorcade drove past. At least he got to see it. I’m feeling so un-American right now. I should have gone. Girl and I whet to Toy Alley last week. First we went to see the sock man, where Girl went CRAZY buying socks for herself and helped me pick out socks for friends back home. Anyway, Toy Alley is just one street away from the sock man, so since we were so close, we had to go. Toy Alley is like most of the shopping here in Korea, the street is lined with toys, toys and more toys. Girl was in heaven. She can't wait to take her brothers to show them, and she told her dad she wants to go on a special date with him to Toy Alley. (She knows Daddy is more inclined to purchase anything her little heart desires) Although Toy Alley is typical Korean shopping, I found the prices much more expensive. This past weekend Hubby and I took it easy...we stayed on post for date night. Lame, (is it lame to say lame?) I know, but it was raining and Hubby hadn't been feeling very well. We did the "traditional" date, the one most married people with children end up doing when they just want to get out - dinner and a movie. We went for all you can eat crab legs at Reggie's here on post, they cook them to order and they do not overcook them like they do at lots of all you can eat crab places. I haven’t mention that I do conversational phone English. Yes, I get paid to do something I love to do, talk on the phone. I talk with two ladies both about my age, and three young teens, ages 12, 12 & 13. I have been doing this for a few weeks now, and I really look forward to my phone calls. Even the kids are fun to talk to, which at first I thought would be very painful, because let’s face it, 12 & 13 year olds are not very easy to talk to, sometimes it is downright painful trying to have a conversation with them (I know this because I have a 12 year old of my own), then throw in English as their second language and I really thought I was in trouble. Life is good when you are a 2 year old boy, drinking your OJ, watching Thomas on the TV and having your hand down your pants |
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