"i want a baked item...."

i have a ton of blogs i'm wanting to put up, but i feel compelled to share about our after dinner hours tonight. while finishing up dinner i made the comment that i really wanted a baked item - you know, like a pie or cake or something. hubby threw out "or cookies" to which princess replied, "let's make cookies i can take to the tea party!"

okay - cookies it is. i remember that i don't have any kind of chocolate chips and since i don't like to make sugar cookies i suggested oatmeal raisin to the crew. every one seemed fairly excited at the prospect.

so then i text my friend kelly and beg her to come pick our green beans. now i realize i should get those cookies made - i mean wouldn't it be fun to offer her and the boys a warm cookie after taking my green bean bounty?!?!!?

then i remembered i also needed to make a veggie type breakfast casserole for saturday. so i pull out the computer and search for zucchini breakfast recipes. i settled on a spinach quiche instead. but i decided i'd see if i could find a new oatmeal raisin cookie that is a bit chewy. so i google that next. the first recipe that popped up was one that said eggless chewy oatmeal raisin cookies. ummm...OH YEAH! hubby finished off the eggs earlier this week.

i check out the recipe - it has gotten great reviews. so here we go. i was short on the butter so i subbed in my usual canola oil instead. several reviews said to cut down on the sugar so i did that too. i subbed in some whole wheat flour and ground some pecans to add to the last bunch.

my friend showed up while i was mixing so i do confess to being a little distracted. but what really distracted me was watching 4 boys throw cucumbers all around. they were cracking me up. so back to the cookies....i made the first batch and started putting the second batch on the cookie sheet when i said "i forgot to add the oatmeal!" goodness gracious....so i scoop those back up and add oatmeal. while the first batch was yummy - the ones with the oatmeal are amazing!!!!

now that i read this i realize that none of this is at all interesting to anyone is it? i guess for me it was just funny that i was so desparate to have something baked that i had to make cookies with half the butter and no eggs. or maybe it is was that whizboy has been telling me for 2 days i need to go to the grocery store and i was in denial. or maybe it is just that i've been doing nothing but garden veggies for days upon days that i'm neglecting any other kind of food item....

or maybe i just wanted to tell this story because it is my blog!

and - for a little fun....anyone wanna guess what the recipe said the egg substitute was?!?!!?!!