Before turning this into a random food oriented blog (garden, prepared, and then today), I have had other things going on (sadly... still no knitting).
Garage sales have been a focus of recent weekends, and I've been partially successful on my hunt, along with a few unplanned treasures. This weekend was a good one!
First up - pair of lamps. These were a bargain for $5/pr and will be perfect in the guest bedroom after a good cleaning. Of course I have a different project-in-progress for lamps for that room, but I couldn't pass these up and the other ones might not actually come to fruition.
A fun game board... the top glass has checkers to cover the backgammon board, and the drawer includes dominoes and cribbage. I'll need to get more little bits to use for checkers pieces, but already have a good idea. I may paint and distress the wood box as it's certainly seen better days, but this is a good addition to the game cupboard!
And a $10 bread machine. My bread machine didn't survive the move-storage-move process, so I'll have fun with this one.
The major purchase of the weekend will appear in a make-over post one of these days...
But instead of installing shelves or working on the headboard, I make Pillow Cookies. Not an intuitive name in my opinion, but essentially a brownie surrounded by chocolate chip cookie. YUM!
If I were to make these again, I'd go for a thicker cookie dough. This was REALLY moist and soft, so chilling the dough was critical, but made for a flat cookie with a bulge where the brownie bite was. And as Bakerella says, you will need to cover the cookies for further cooking when the tops start to get brown.
And they are HUGE! This plate is 7 3/4" across!
For the full recipe and much more enticing pictures, click here.
Temptation on so many levels...
Happy, Happy -
JavaNut
