In some circles I’m known for my peanut butter cookies;
soft, slightly chewy without the requisite dryness of a stereotypical peanut
butter cookie. I take great pride in my peanut butter cookies. It took years of
searching and years of producing substandard offerings to land on the perfect
recipe.
When I set out to bake a batch of peanut butter cookies I
shut the rest of the world out, I poor my soul into mixing and measuring. I
want people to taste the love.
Hell, I even bent my ‘no fork mark’ rule and added fork
marks to improve the enjoyment of everyone who expects to be transported back
to their youth with a simple cookie.
It’s work to make the very best Peanut Butter cookies; the
kind you can’t keep in the cookie tin, the kind you can give away, the kind you
can win a ‘blind-sided’ taste test with.
Last night I noticed, on the back of the Kraft PB jar, a “recipe”
for peanut butter cookies. I looked at it with great scepticism….you can’t make
peanut butter cookies with 3 ingredients. No flour, no brown sugar, no
butter—who are they kidding? Still it looked like I could whip up a quick
excuse for home baking, impress my kids, June Cleaver-up a Tuesday night and
still have time for all the ‘other’ things I wanted to do. (that was this postfrom last night)
The recipe made 15 12 …11 cookies in the time
it took to wash the dishes.
I stuck a few in
Mike’s lunch this morning—super wife??? I think so *wink wink* the way to a
man’s heart and all that stuff. After nearly 30 years together you can get away
with a substandard cookie once in a while.
You would think…..and so did I, until…
I popped in to check in with my Facebook friends over lunch
and this was staring my in the face…..
Sometimes we try too hard—and don’t even know it.
Love
M
