A friend of mine I worked with before my unfortunate incarceration in the Instructional Media Center (recently renamed but not placed in my memory bank) periodically brought the most wonderful cookies to the office. They were homemade oatmeal cookies with yummy fruits(not the ones your grandmother used in cakes and cookies), nuts, chocolate, and health food "stuff";you name it, it was in the cookies. I loved them, and they were a little crunchy because she baked them a perfect brown. Not like these cookies.
These cookies are not pretty and flat like hers, and they have minimal offerings when you bite into them; however, to some, they will certainly be labeled delicious. They are peanut butter with chocolate chips and pecans, my favorite nuts. I baked them because when it is cold outside and the fire is burning in the living room,
(not that the living room is on fire, but in the fireplace; I can assume you got that, but I have days, so I imagine others might, too) I, back to the cookies, like to bake. I am finished with fall breads and an occasional pumpkin pie. It's cookie and muffin time, and just about everything I bake has chocolate chips. It's close to an obsession. Wait, I have to put another log on the fire;I'll be right back. Oak burns beautifully, but hot and fast. I guess you know I'm back. O.K., once again- the cookies.
When I start the cookies, I have a basic mixture that is like many other mixtures for different cookies. It includes staples such as flour, sugar, eggs, and butter. The cookie takes on its own definition only with the addition of specific ingredients that give the cookie a name and make it stand out as a particular type of cookie. That ingredient today was peanut butter. Am I the only one in the room, oh, I am the only one in the room, who sees where I can go with this? It's not an Amish Friendship Bread story, but there are similarities. Analogies are floating in my brain comparing cookies and people. I am tempted to begin recording them,but I'm burning wood and am cognizant of sap, so instead I leave you with this question: What's in your cookies?
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. I Corinthians 12:4
Peace.
Love, Linda
4 comments:
My "cookie' get so full of ingredients at times that you can't tell what it is: sweet, sour, distasteful, delicious, or just plain. I prefer delicious anytime I can manage that.
I like that in a cookie, too, and sweet. Sweet is always good.
I'm a chocolate chip fanatic, too! I was even thinking about putting them in some lemon cupcakes. But, I didn't do it. That would probably be just a little too weird.
Hmmm...I think that would not be OK, but then again it hasn't been done that I know of, so there is the potential for a Betty Crocker winner!
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