Recipe for Disaster

The other night I decided I would make what should have been simple but delicious Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies. Everything went smoothly until I had the dough made, which just looked like runny eggs and brown sugar mixed together. I have made cookies a few times since I've been here and for some reason the dough never turns out and the cookies come out really flat. I can usually make a mean cookie so I blame the humidity. This was followed by me adding a ton of flour to thicken up the dough (I ended up more than doubling the flour and still no bueno). I decided to move on.

The next step was to add the chocolate chips. Have you ever had to inspect the chocolate chips as you pour them into the dough? 'Cause I have. Every time since we've been here. Let's just say ants are not my friend and they happen to be the same color as chocolate chips...

After adding the ant-free chocolate chips I put the first batch in the oven. Since our oven was made in like the 1700's (did they even have ovens back then?) it takes an abnormally long amount of time to bake cookies. About halfway through baking time, I decided to sneak a peek and see where they were at. Also, since our oven comes away from the wall when you open the door I had to shove the oven back up against the wall. Shortly after this, I noticed the flame had gone out. Since we buy our own gas for the oven and we still hadn't had to go refill our tank yet I thought, Darn we ran out of gas. So I turned off the oven and let the first batch sit in the oven hoping it would stay hot enough to finish baking the first batch. Then I would call it quits.

After telling Shane that I thought our gas just ran out he came in and checked. Apparently when I shoved the oven back up against the wall I pinched the hose where the gas comes out. So really we weren't out of gas. By this time, the cookies smelled like gas, they weren't baked all the way, and I had a bowl full of dough still waiting to be baked.

I decided to turn the oven back on since we weren't out of gas and finish the first batch. By this time almost 2 hours had gone by and it was getting late. Once the first batch finished, I decided to put the dough in the fridge and finish the rest the next day.

So, mix all those ingredients together and you get flat oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Shane seemed to think it was worth the hassle. At least he thought they were good :) Oh Grenada, how I love you...