Jessie’s SAWIC Cookies
Good morning! SIWAC stands for Super-Awesome Whole Incredible Cookies: check out my guest post on Eating Bender for the recipe. Thanks, Jenn!
Have a great day, everyone! 
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Domestic Bliss
As an independent young whippersnapper, I never knew how wonderful having a HOME was until I married. I love coming back to this:
Peter watching curling, the best Olympic sport ever.
(Note: Domestic bliss and independence are not mutually exclusive. But, of course you knew that.)
All I need is some delicious eats, and this picture is complete. Eats, you say?? Patience, young arthropod!
I enjoyed dietetics clinical today. I’ve figured out that if I look at each patient as a puzzle (with some missing pieces), figuring out how I can help out is an interesting game – a brainteaser, if you will. Of course, we never lose sight of the fact that these are real people with their own nuances.
I still find it difficult to detach myself from the diseases and other traumas that often land people in the hospital in the first place. For those of you who work in the health care field: how do you cope? Does it become easier with time?
After a long day, coming home was a treat. After taking the dogs for a walk and working out, I experimented with a new recipe (I may have mentioned something about it in a previous post … *wink wink eyebrow wiggle*). I feel so bad for doing this again, but I can’t share the recipe because I’m submitting it to a contest. But, it did have the following ingredients:
Some old favorites:
Aaaaand, this:
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Hoo hoooo! I’m such a tease.
To make up for it, here is a recipe for fantastic cookies with sesame (!) in them. They look like this:
… and they taste divine.
“Goodnight my angel, time to close your eyes,
And save these questions for another day.”
My question for you: What is your favorite cookie? Tough one, I know! 
The Snow Day and the Liquid Cookie
Today was a snow day!
Doggie tracks in the snow.
When I woke up, there was nothing on the ground but some dead grass and dog droppings. Even so, school closed in anticipation of the coming blizzard. The snow didn’t fall in earnest until this afternoon.
The smoker covered in snow. Nero 'marked' it on the way outside.
My brother-in-law, Dave, noticed I was doing a lot of interval workouts, so he suggested that I try some hill workouts to mix things up (thanks, Dave!). He recommended either setting an incline and doing a tempo run, or choosing a moderate pace and changing the incline as I run. I decided to go with the former this time.
I usually set the treadmill at 0.5 incline because I find it easier on my knee. This time, I set the incline to 4.0 and did the following workout:
5 minutes at 3.5 mph (5 min)
20 minutes at 6.5 mph (25 min)
10 min at 3.5 mph (35 min)
Now, this was not a long workout, but I was WIPED at the end. Geez! I haven’t run actual hills in so long that I had forgotten what they were like. Peter was on the elliptical next door and he kept looking over at me, until finally he said, “Wow, you work hard!” This from the guy who plays video games when he uses the stationary bike 
Nothing like veggies to refuel!
Leftover Pesto Veggie Stacks with melted Emmenthaler. Yes, it tasted as good as it sounds.
I spent the rest of the afternoon writing about diseases and nutritional implications. As cheery as that task was, I decided to take a break and make some chocolate peanut butter cookies.
I followed a recipe that I had drooled over and bookmarked a while back because, hey, who couldn’t use a little peanut butter on a snowy day? The recipe is Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies from the wonderful Mae of Ohh May! (adapted from Jessica’s How Sweet It Is (look at those gorgeous pics!), adapted from Bakespace).
Mixing the dry ingredients.
Look at that stand mixer go! One of the best aspects of getting married was getting cool stuff for our kitchen. Oh, and marrying Peter. Yes.
However, I made a crucial mistake in the recipe. I didn’t notice the part where the recipe said turn mixer on high for 2 minutes. Since I didn’t let beater whip air into the egg whites, I was left with:
Yeah.
And, I just took a food science class last fall! *blush* Needless to say, there was no pulling and stuffing of the cookies with chocolate chips and peanut butter. I decided to just dab them on top instead.
I used my favorite peanut butter (of course):
Drizzling batter over the top of each “cookie”:
I’m so glad I wasn’t making these for anyone else. Poor Peter.
Out of the oven:
Well, at least they tasted delicious!
I’m definitely trying these again sometime. Just remember Jessie: whip your whites!
Dinner was more successful: leftover Curry Chicken Salad with Bananas over lettuce with avocado and balsamic vinegar.
Yes, that will do
Here’s hoping the roads will be clear for Clinical tomorrow!
An Ethereal Glow
I wish I looked like this today:
Instead, I looked like the guy in the background of the uncropped version:
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You know, umbrellas just don’t work well when they’re inside out.
At least I got to come home to some delicious eats! Besides some yummy shrimp scampi, Peter also sauteed beet greens (that’s right, the leafy tops of beets) in walnut oil. How does he come up with this stuff??
Smooth and nutty, without a trace of bitterness. What a husb.
While I was taking pictures of the beet greens, the camera lens fogged up until everything looked like those school pictures with the “soft touch” option:
After dinner, I made oatmeal cookies for a dinner I’m going to tomorrow, following the Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe on the Quaker website.
A little Peter-made vanilla sugar makes everything sweeter.
Ready to go in.
Warm and soft, right from the oven.
Cookies are good, but Maddie would argue that veggies are better.
