Sorry I haven’t been around for the past few days…weeks.  Final exams are comin’ up, and I’ve been cramming, as you can imagine – so I probably won’t post at all/too much until they’re over, sometime mid-June, I believe.  Layla’s getting bigger every second; I’ll stick up some pictures of her here eventually.

Just wanted to let y’all know what was going on.  Going now for dinner…huge scrapbook for world history due tomorrow, dunno how I’ll ever finish it.

<3 Pic

Ingredients:

Cheese balls:

Wedge of motzarella cheese, cold

Couple of beaten eggs

Breadcrumbs (Italian-seasoned recommended)

Veg oil

Salad:

Baby spinach leaves

Dressing:

1 clove garlic

1/2 lemon (for juice and zest)

Salt, pepper

Olive oil (EVOO)

To soften cold, hard cheese, put in food processor first.  Shape in marble- to golfball-sized balls, dip in beaten egg(s), and roll in breadcrumbs.  Space on cookie sheet (with foil) and chill in fridge.  Once cold, fry immediately in hot veg oil until light and crisp.  (If cheese is room temp, it will break apart in oil.)

For the dressing, mince 1 clove of garlic, put in small mixing bowl.  Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon, and shred off a little lemon zest.  Add pinch of salt and pepper, and splash of olive oil.

Toss dressing in with baby spinach, top with cheese balls.

1/2 cup rolled oats (such as Quaker)

2 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 c (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temp.

1 c brown sugar

1 c white sugar

2 eggs

3/4 tsp almond extract

Preheat oven to 325 F.

Mix together dry ingredients (first five) in food processor.

In a separate mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar, mixing them very well.  Scape down the sides to prevent clumps.  Add the eggs and almond extract.

Mix in dry ingredients alittle at a time, slowly mixing them in.  Be careful not to overmix.  Add in a handful (or two – size is variable, depending on preference) of choc chips and almons.

Bake for about 13 minutes, or until desired consistency.  (These are excellent when cooked until crunchy, and made into cookie ice cream sandwiches).

Just started this up, and I’m already so excited!  This will be my get-away place; perfect for writing down everything in my head, and having a place for all my online friends (mainly PI) to chat with me.

Hoping to have several categories of stuff – things like updates for PI, PILL stuff (also PI-related), recipes (yes, Pic loves to cook!), Layla, etc etc.  Enjoy!