HAPPY DECEMBER!!!

[marguerite_26]

LJ: Good morning, Marguerite!
M: Morning!!!! Hit me!
LJ: You asked for it... Here's 104 pages of fic for you to print out, and that's only from one of the four fests you will be following this month. Check back in an hour.
M: *pets printer* Be good to me, honey. I've got more ink coming.

While my printer chugs along... recipes! They begin! I'm kinda posting in the order in which the recipes are easily available to me. (ie:no other at all). Some of your requests will be fulfilled in ways that you have to squint to see how your request matches the recipe, but lots of requests were similar (quite a few requests for vegetarian dishes and vegetable side dishes). If you don't like the recipe i posted for you, I hope you will like one of the recipes posted throughout the month. If haven't yet - feel free to add a request here. :D

This first recipe was the easiest. melusinahp requested my favourite cookie recipe. Happy baking!

These cookies (when not over-cooked) are a perfect combination of chewy and crunchy. And the oatmeal gives a nice hardy feel to them, while the chocolate is pure decadence.


Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs

1 cup flour
2 cup oatmeal
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

2 cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet – good quality*)
1 tsp vanilla extract (or essence - which is the artificial 'extract')

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. (hint: room temperature eggs, added one at a time will incorporate into butter much easier)
In separate bowl mix all dry ingredients. Gradually stir in dry ingredients to butter mixture.

When blended stir in chocolate chips.

Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet (or baking sheet) 2 inches apart.

10 minutes at 375 F, makes 50 cookies.

*I like The Decadent chocolate chips and this recipe is a modified version from that package).




A note on parchment paper. I use parchment paper on all my cookie sheet/baking sheets. It a fabulous for everything from cookies to chicken wings. Saves on the clean up, and it stops from ruining your food by losing half of it to sticking/burning. I use the disposable parchment that you can buy next to the plastic wraps/aluminum foil stuff. yes, bad for the environment - good for the food.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!!! Happy birthday sesheta_66 ♥

Comments

[hereticalvision.livejournal.com]

*is now hungry, with no food in apartment*
*is debating getting out of bed and going to convenience store*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

meh. getting out of bed is overrated. ;)

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.... cookies. And, yes, the fictional goodness is an amazing thing.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

the cookies are fabulous. I'm so tempted to make a batch now. LOL.

YAY!! hols fics!!! :DDDD

Maggie's Recipes #1: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

LMAO! 104 pages! Is that what the hd_hols story comes out to?

I hope there's ink on your wish list. *will go check*

I am very hopeful/grateful/excited for your recs. I just can't read all that you do. It's a community service in my book. ♥

Re: Maggie's Recipes #1: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It's the first two hols fics, formatted to my printing specifics: font: verdana, font point: 12.

I print 4 pages per sheet, double sided. :D

Will be reading at Littest's doctor's app this afternoon. *g*

Re: Maggie's Recipes #1: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

[faithwood.livejournal.com]

formatted to my printing specifics: font: verdana, font point: 12.

Those are my printing specifics, too! *loves Verdana*

Re: Maggie's Recipes #1: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

me too!!!! times new roman is a horror! As is Ariel. *squints*

[samena.livejournal.com]

104 pages! *perks up in interest* What fic is that?! Is it HD? :D

Those cookies look delicious. If only I wasn't on a diet... *sigh*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It's the first two hols fics. :D

My apologies to your diet. Please feel free to filter me out during December. :D

[samena.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, they're both at least 20K, which is good! I really am a sucker for long fics.

Nah, I'm not filtering you out. I'll just have to restrain myself a bit more. ;D

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Cookies! *numi numi*

Just a couple of questions to anglicize this recipe:
c is for cup, yes?
tsp of vanilla is vanilla essence?
a cookie sheet is just a baking sheet or do you mean something with molded forms?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Great questions! I will edit the post. Sorry about that! I reminded myself this morning to clarify the terminology and forgot!

c=cup
vanilla is vanilla extract or essence
cookie sheet is a baking sheet

[okydoky.livejournal.com]

Mmm they sound good! :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

enjoy. :D

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I'm never going to be able to keep up with the fests. Just reading on 20k fic took half my dad.

Omg, this looks delicious! Thank you, lovely. :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hee! december is a hard time to be a fandomer. ;)

I hope you enjoy.

[faynia.livejournal.com]

Cookies! The first thing I'm going to do when this semester ends is make these. They sound delicious. Ugh. *eyes those chocolate chips*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

enjoy!

[fireflavored.livejournal.com]

I love chocolate chip cookies and I love oatmeal cookies. I've never seen them wrapped up in one delicious package before! You have made my world a better place ♥

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

oh! you will love these then. They are like oatmeal cookies taken to a whole new level. ;)

[wwmrsweasleydo.livejournal.com]

These cookies look great. How big is a cup? At first I thought it didn't matter as long as they were all the same cup, but then I noticed the eggs. I know a cup is a standard measure in North America, I think I have a conversation table somewhere. I like doing new baking, I've never used baking soda before.

Yay! I am so excited about these recipes!

[wwmrsweasleydo.livejournal.com]

When I wrote 'conversation', the toddler was continuously blowing his new whistle at me. Sorry. I meant 'conversion'.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Here's a conversion table:
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/measure.html

Does that help? Let me know and I'll include it with all my recipes.

also here's a farenheit to celcius calculator

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

oh! Or is this one better?

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/convert/measurements.html

it says clearly
1 cup = 225 ml that's what you need, right? I know we are mixing liquid with dry measurements.

Or do you need:
1 cup = 1/2 pound ???

[wwmrsweasleydo.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant. 8oz is one cup. Perfect. Thanks so much for going to so much trouble.

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't wait for these to post every day. *glee*

I never used parchment paper before. It stops/slows things from burning?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

:DDD
I only started using parchement paper about 4 yrs ago, when my sister one say said: YOU DON'T YOU PARCHMENT!!! lol. I haven't looked back since.

parchment paper avoids you having to 'grease' a pan. and even for non-stick cookie sheets (where you wouldn't grease it anyway) it helps give a nice 'browned' bottom without sticking at all (even the melting chocolate than tends to burn. Also for cookies you can also re-use the sheets.

But where it is most helpful is for the sticky stuff like baking potato wedges and chicken fingers... stuff were you can lose half your meal to your cookie sheet. :D

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

I went out and bought parchment paper on your recommendation and after the first batch wondered why I haven't been using it for ages. OMG, so much ♥ for you right now!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds fantastic! This is one of those recipes that I know I've always wanted, but never quite remembered to actively look for.

I feel like I'm mooching off of others' requests, but I'm really looking forward to all the recipes you will be posting! Baking is one of my favourite hobbies, and it would be great to gather a few new recipes along with discovering some other dishes!

Thanks for doing this!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

yay! Mooching off everyone elses recipes is what this thing is all about. :DDD

[katelinmr.livejournal.com]

*saves recipe*

thanks!!

*loves*

[khateh.livejournal.com]

I have one question about oatmeal: do you mean the big pieces, like here (http://nutritiongyan.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/oatmeal.jpg) or that stuff powdered? I've happily ignored it in all forms until recently and I want to make sure I don't mess it up :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Big pieces. Makes it nice and crunchy. The original recipe tells you to put the oatmeal in a blender... and I was all o.O

first - waist of time, second - too many dishes for such a useless thing and third - they taste better big. :D

[khateh.livejournal.com]

I was hoping they would be whole :) Using my blender is so complicated and cleaning it and all, i would rather skip the step.
I'll let you know how they turn out when I bake them :)