My Christmas Present to You

All that is left of the school year is a faculty meeting tomorrow morning. The year has had its ups and downs but somehow I feel mostly positive about it all. On the last day of school for the kids my class left me a note of the chalkboard that was very nice. I suppose over time I'll mostly forget the bad kids and all the trouble they caused in favor of the good ones. I took pictures of the chalkboard to help to remember.

After much practice and fine tuning I am finally ready to unveil my recipe for cookies. I've been making these every month this year to get it just right and as a Christmas present to all of you I have decided to share my culinary genius. Be warned that I expect you will have to make adjustments to this recipe. Parts of the recipe are quite precise but in general my cooking style is inherited from a long line a fabulous cooks that get by with an innate knowledge of how much is the right amount. I consider myself a novice at this art but I have spent several years as an informal apprentice to a master of the discipline. While a truly authentic rendering of this recipe requires hand mixing, it is understood that many will opt for the electric mixer. Results can not be guaranteed with such a deviation from the prescribed method.

1 cup flour
2/3 cup oatmeal
3/8 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

130 grams of margarine
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. Vanilla
1 large heaping spoonful of peanut butter

1 chopped chocolate bar
Melt the margarine on the stove (no microwave) and mix with the sugars, egg, vanilla, and peanut butter. Mix the dry ingredients separately and stir in half to the rest of the dough. Add your chocolate and then the rest of the dry ingredients. Stir as long as it takes to make it seem uniform or until your arm gets tired. Bake at 190 degrees celsius for 12 or 13 minutes.


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