Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

Today I've decided that I like this magazine I picked up yesterday and it was called MixingBowl.com It had this absolutely wonderful cupcake on the front cover. I knew I just had to buy the magazine so that I could make that cupcake ASAP.
Well, when I got home I started thumbing through this magazine and found so many wonderful sounding recipes I thought I would start with what I knew for sure I had in the house to try.

Wow, first recipe was "Billies Mud Pie Cookies"

I am not a chocolate loving person but it's what I had in the house and I know I have lots of tasters around my house to give the chocolate lovers in them a treat.
I have 3 grandsons living with me temporarily and my son and his wife.
What a treat having all of them to keep me company and help me so much around the house.
Even more than anything, they like to try out my recipes and they seem to like all of them so far. I think it's great having such adorable taste testers and God only knows what they are doing for my ego....
You see, I love to cook but only when I feel like it. Then of course I go kind of crazy and cook up maybe 5-10 things in a day and then I'm having them try everything. It's a good thing that Cookies are one of their favorites to try.

I'm not sure on the difference between rolled oats, quick cook oats, and steel cut oats but in this recipe I used quick cooking oats because that's what I had.
Oh, one other thing, our family has lots of allergies so because of that, I never cook anything or mix anything in my home with nuts in it so I eliminated that out of Billies recipe, but I'm sure they would be a nice addition if you can have them.
I whipped up a batch really fast because the recipe was pretty easy.
(Thanks Billy) No waiting for the dough to rest or cool or anything, just cream the butter and sugars, added the egg and vanilla and then I added all the dry ingredients and in twelve minutes this is what they looked like.
I guess I should take some lessons on "the taking pictures part", but you can't be good at everything!

I cooled them down a bit and then called the cookie testers and much to my surprise, I got "Grandma, I don't know how you make such good things all the time" That's from my eldest grandson who is twelve. Isn't he cute? Then I let the 10 year old try them and he said "You're going to Hollywood Grandma" (American Idol) He's pretty cute with his comments. Most times he tells me "it's delicioso" I guess that meant they were pretty good from him too. My son said "They're allright" but of course, he made me leave the plate of them with him and the family. My daughter in law said these are really delicious and chocolaty. She also said that my other daughter in law would absolutely loves them too.
My other daughter in law is my other cookie, appetizer and food tester of all times. She is sometimes a hard one to please, and always trying to get me to add more cinnamon to everything or cayenne, but she'll never lie to me just to spare my feelings.

So I have to say, "Go ahead and give them a try, they are easy and everyone around here loved them"

All I know, is that you never mind cooking and adding love into the ingredients, when you know you'll get so much love in return.
So as long as your pantry keeps getting filled back up with love, you'll never be short of love in your ingredients for the next time you cook!
Happy Cooking!
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By:Janice