DISCLAIMER!

I WILL NOT BLOG UNTIL AFTER I HAVE TAKEN THE GRE ON OCTOBER 12.

I. HAVE. TO. STUDY......................................

Applesauce and Cookies, Looks Like a Dangerous Combo....

RECIPE of the WEEK!

I have been wanting to try out an applesauce cookie. (I can't get wanting to bake cookies off of my brain.)  After much internet searching and a lot of negative comments, I found this recipe on a blog called "Soupbelly" that looks pretty good and the pictures she took look so enticing I have to make these soon! (there is that good camera thing again)

Chocolate chip cookies baked with applesauce (makes 24)

Ingredients:

• 1 1/3 cup flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup applesauce, drained
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 Tbsp. vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drain applesauce using a fine mesh sieve over a bowl.
2) In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, applesauce, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and egg together.
3) Add chips to batter, mix until well combined. Place spoonfuls of batter evenly apart on a greased cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes. Take out of oven and place cookies on a cookie rack to cool.
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drain applesauce using a fine mesh sieve over a bowl.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, applesauce, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and egg together.

Add chips to batter, mix until well combined.
 
Place spoonfuls of batter evenly apart on a greased cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes.

Take out of oven and place cookies on a cookie rack to cool.

Monday Confessional... on Tuesday

I wanted to start a new tradition, a Monday Confessional, a sort-of get it all out before the week- type of thing, but gosh darn it's so hard to blog on Mondays!  Monday nights inspire little motivation in me, I'm usually still mourning the weekend and sore from working out because somehow I can never get my car to drive me to the gym on Sat/Sun :) Let's just pretend I posted this yesterday...

Monday Confessional:

1. Sometimes I wish I could just quit school.
2. I found out that I like Joplin, MO.
3. I miss my boyfriend. and my friends.
4. I sang out loud for about 2 hours out of my two 4 hour drives this weekend.
5. I have been daydreaming a lot about living on a ranch lately...
6. I am fighting the urge to make cookies.
7. I keep telling myself that working out everyday is getting easier
8. I really reallly want a bangin camera, like the kind that would make every picture I take look professional.
9. I left Olive home alone all weekend and she didn't tear anything up... that I have found yet...
10. I secretly hope someday I have enough money to redecorate my parents house... haha. Just for my mom.

phew! sometimes it just feels good to get it all out!

Is it Friday yet?

I am a "super senior".
I have not taken a Spanish class in 3 years.
I am currently in Spanish 3.
I have a test tomorrow.
I'm screwed.

new discoveries daily

Have you looked at the Daily Olive yet today???

Anyway, today I discovered the magnificent power of HDMI chords.  Now I not only have 4 TV channels, but I have full computer capability on my TV screen!  Hello bad MTV episodes, goodbye extra studying.  Speaking of studying, after the long weekend I am finding it very difficult to get back into loving school- the new has officially worn off.  My second discovery of the day was a nice ear infection that woke me up with throbbing pain.  Apparently if you have allergies and don't take your allergy meds your ears don't appreciate it very much.  After Dr. prescribed doses of Sudafed (I can't spell it correctly and the autocorrect wants me to change it to sedated, ironic?) I am officially loopy.  Life is hard sometimes, maybe Thursday will be better....

As much as it kills me to admit, I may be a little behind the times...

1. I have just discovered something that has transformed my life: RSS feeds.  How sad is that?  Well, now that I have one, I am addicted to how much info is just, right there at my fingertips! I have added it to the blog, so if there is anyone else on Mother Earth who enjoys the same things as me (very few probably) like farming law and policy and cooking and writing, I have started a nice little list I think.

2.  I have added a new page that I have been wanting to do for a long time: The Daily Olive.  Olive is the bestest cat in the whole wide world (most of the time, when she isn't breaking into/knocking things over) and she needs her moment in the spotlight just like anyone else. Check it out.

3. I think I will also be posting a new recipe of the week, weekly (duh).  Living solo (unlike riding solo) has been slowly turning into the culinary inspiration I always dreamed it would be.
Here is  one for an "antioxidant, clear complexion" drink I saw while watching "The Dr.'s" (I only get 4 channels, it's not like I have much of a choice in the afternoons).  I haven't tried it but it sounds like a good one to me:

• 1 bottle red wine
• 1 bottle sparkling water
• 1/2 lemon sliced
• 3/4 cup blueberries
• 3/4 cup blackberries
• Agave nectar - sweeten to taste

Combine ingredients, chill overnight and serve on the rocks. 

OLIE BEAR

Olive the Cat is quite the character.... follow her antics here