Friday, April 22, 2005

Cookie monster

Last night I was feeling bored, my roommates all having gone home for the weekend, so I decided to make oatmeal cookies. While I was making them a friend called and we talked as I creamed the sugar and the butter. A little bit of salt and a little bit of baking soda went into the mixture. I grabbed a bottle of what I thought was vanilla and poured a teaspoon's worth into the bowl. It fizzed. "How interesting," I thought. "I'd forgotten that baking soda and vanilla create a reaction like that." I continued chatting with my friend. Then the smell of the "vanilla" hit me and I realized I'd put vinegar in, not vanilla. Whoops. :) So I got to throw the whole thing out (I'll admit I was tempted to try to make the cookies anyway and see if they might turn out okay, but then the smell of the vinegar convinced me that it was quite impossible) and start all over again. But the end result was good.

Speaking of cookies, several years ago I made a goal to go off sweets (cookies, cake, candies, ice cream, doughnuts, anything like that). It was hard at first but I ended up doing it for ten whole months. Ever since then, my sugar tolerance level has been quite low -- even a moderate amount of sweetness throws my system out of whack.

After that I hiked the Y with my neighbors (at 10:30 p.m.). The moon was out and we had no trouble seeing our way, and it was quite a fun hike. Afterwards we went to Denny's (it was 12:30 a.m. by then) and it was packed. So we went to the one up in Orem and it too was almost full, but we stayed anyway. One of the guys who used to live in this house came with us, and he's a very good cook (or so the rumor goes :)). Always interested in food, I asked him about his cooking here in college. He said that his first year here, he spent an initial $100 for the basic supplies (spices, rice, flour, etc.), and then after that he lived off $15/month of food (vegetables, meat, potatoes, etc.). Wow. He even made his own bread. I've really got to learn how to cook more than just cookies... :)

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