I know you’re around here somewhere, but for some reason you’re hiding from us.
Why are you doing this, gift certificate? Why? I am hungry and want some biscuits and that shrimp & lobster salad, and because you are missing I cannot eat it! What the hell.
You were last seen on our counter top when I picked up the envelope and said, “What’s this?” and Jason said “My mom gave it to us for watching her dog.” And then I put it back on the counter. This occurred about a week ago, and between then & now you have completely freaking vanished. We searched the house top to bottom. Twice. We’ve also looked in my Jason’s pants’ pockets, my purse, our cars, and on top of the fridge.
Where are you, Red Lobster Gift Certificate? Where?
Filed under: recipes
I am not a cookie person. I’m a cake person; I’m a pie person. I’ll even tolerate the occasional brownie, but even those instances are very few and very very far between. I should clarify: I’m not a homemade cookie person. If it has “Oreo” stamped on the side, we’re golden. But eating other people’s homemade cookies usually leave quite a lot to be desired; often they are dry and crumbly or undercooked or taste like maybe the chef threw a few back and then decided to create something using what s/he had in the kitchen. I am not a cookie person.
A week and a half ago, a woman I work with brought pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies into the office. She offered me one, and not wanting to be rude I accepted. I ate the first bite hesitantly–it was a cookie, after all, a confection I have a general disdain for–but in a matter of seconds the whole cookie was gone. It was moist and delicious, unlike any cookie I had ever had the pleasure of tasting. I got the recipe from her and decided to make a batch that night.
They were excellent. They were so excellent, in fact, that both days Jason took a decent-sized casserole dish full of them to work, the cookies were gone by ten and the dish was spit-shined. These cookies, they are the best cookie on the planet.
Not wanting to deprive all of you of these wonderful treats, I’ve opted to share this recipe with anyone who wants so try them. They freeze well, so though the recipe makes a lot, you can stick ‘em in with the ice cubes until you want some more.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
from Denise, as given by Lori
Ingredients:
3 cups pumpkin (one large can works perfectly)
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
3 beaten eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon milk
6 cups flour
3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 bags chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375.
Combine pumpkin, eggs, oil, and vanilla in large bowl. Set aside.
Combine milk and baking soda in small bowl. Pour into pumpkin mixture.
Mix dry ingredients in separate, large bowl. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop batter onto ungreased cookie sheets via an ice cream scoop. Bake for twelve minutes.
Tips:
1) When I say large bowl, I mean a large bowl. I got a four quart Pyrex especially for this recipe because none of the mixing bowls I had at home were big enough to accomodate the three cups of pumpkin plus the three cups of sugar plus the six cups of flour.
2) It’s easier to mix the dry ingredients first and set aside, because washing the oil off of the measuring cup was a pain in the ass. I did the dry ingredients, rinsed the measuring cup, and then did the oil.
3) The dry ingredient mixture should be added to the pumpkin 1/4 at a time; the flour makes it all very hard to stir if added all at once.
4) I wanted to try the recipe with walnuts but didn’t have any. I would substitute one bag of chocolate chips for a bag of crushed walnuts instead. If you do this, let me know how it turns out.
