Oatmeal Cookies Revisited

Fresh from the oven!

I was craving for a cookie this weekend and amazing enough, I wasn't craving for my chocolate chip cookies but an oatmeal cookies! Who would have thought that I would forgoe eating bunch of chocolates in exchange for a healthier oats and raisins. I wan't a fan of oatmeal cookies before specially commercially bought ones because they tend to be though and much too sweet for me. Looking back at my blog, I saw that I only made oatmeal cookies TWICE and they are years apart. I remember clearly that one of the best oatmeal cookies that I have ever tasted is the made made by Sherry Yard. Its moist and chewy at the same time without being coyingly sweet.

Chocolate Chunk Muffins

I spent the last quarter of 2010 spending way too much! There was a lot of bargain items which I got for Christmas gifts to my love ones and tons of new baking books and kitchen paraphernalia. My room looks more and more like a storage room with all the boxes, shopping bags strewn everywhere. Little by little I try my best to organize them and put it in their proper place. My huge pile of baking books, one by one I try to have them covered with a clear plastic wrap to protect them from certain kitchen spills and accidents. Once they are well protected, it's time to give them a whirl! But where will I start? After pondering for a few seconds, I settled on the The Essence of Chocolate. I got this book from my favorite second hand bookstore and I got it on a bargain for 375 pesos around $8! Another thing that I love is that the baking books that I often get though used are in excellent conditions and since most of them are in hardcover formats there are no tear pages. Though sometimes the book jacket is missing or the jacket looks dilapidated but heck for more than 1/4 of the price of a new book, I can look passed it and when it's all wrapped in clear plastic, no one would notice those. I probably just bore you with my obsessiveness and you probably don't care and just want me to get it and talk about the muffins. Here goes...