Jealous Much?

Guess who I had lunch with today?

And YES I did bribe him with a blue sucker!

And YES it was sooooo worth it!

And YES I have MORE blue suckers!

OK -The way the game is intended to be played is we all cook the same recipe each week, the recipe will be prechosen by each of us in the order we previously selected at the restaurant (ie, HH, CB, MK and ME). Then we report back on our experiences with the recipe. This is just a suggestion and NO ONE has to follow my suggestions - it was really intended just as a way to stay in touch and the cookbook was a reason. If you are busy, out of town or just can't get to it - then don't, you won't be penalized or have to makeup the missed recipe - but you might miss out on something really great - so read the blog and see what your other sistas thought, you might want to make up a missed recipe. That being said, you can cook anything you want out of any cookbook, obviously trying to slow down Mama Kathy and Haute is like roping the wind - ain't gonna happen. However, if you cook out of the two main cookbooks will that take it out of possibilities for all of us? Something to think about....

Now for my review. Haute I thought this was so not you when you selected this particular recipe. And I would of personally not have chosen this at all - however that is what this is all about. I was pleasantly surprised, they were crispy, yet melted away in my mouth, down to a chewy center. I thought that the hubs would only be interested in them if they were dipped in chocolate, so that is what I did - I would not do that again. The chocolate really overpowered the light airiness of the cookie. Things I noticed: I did not bake my two sheets of cookies together, I baked them one at a time and I noticed that the second batch was not as puffy as the first so I think that allowing the dough to cool down before I baked it really affected the way the cookie came out. At one time the cookie did smell like it was burning - however no smoke - have you cleaned your oven lately? Got to go time to enjoy the fruits of my labor....