The weekend, the weekend! Oh, how I have waited for it.
We’re ten days into the new year and I’m still hoping that energy and motivation will kick me in the ass and get me cleaning, organizing, and purging.
I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to make this weekend awesome and productive, and so far it’s been all right.
I finally went to the grocery store and stocked up on relatively wholesome foods. I got all the Christmas stuff taken down. I even scrubbed the stove to a sparkling state…a deep overdue scrub.
When at the store, I bought some healthier items with this notion that I may try to ligthen up (probably a good idea since some of my jeans aren’t fitting like I want them too), and one thing I got was Oatmeal to have for breakfast.
There hasn’t been a day in my life that I’ve enjoyed oatmeal, ever. Even with all the bells and whistles like honey, syrup, fruit, you name it. It actually makes me gag. I was always more of a malt-o-meal kind of gal if I was even venturing into the warm cereal-esque waters.
So when I woke up yesterday, and I pondered that box of oatmeal with pure dread, I had a way better (and not nearly as healthy) idea.
Oatmeal cookies of course!
With some left over chocolate chips for good measure.
They turned out pretty yummy, although the recipe I followed guaranteed softness, and well they aren’t quite as soft as I would like. I probably didn’t adjust it enough for altitude.
While at the grocery store, I also bought a whole chicken for $3. Why did I do this? Because I read something earlier this year (ha ha) that was called “America: Too Stupid to Cook.”
It popped up in the “What’s Hot in Google Reader” RSS feed one day and I checked it out and thought the writer had some great points. To summarize and then I’ll link ya to it, Americans are being taught that they are too stupid to cook, basically to sell books and television programming about really “easy” recipes that are supposedly fast as well, because we have no time to cook! No time at all!! Only time to watch television for three hours after dinner.
At the end of the article he describes how actually easy it is to roast a whole chicken, even though there’s a stigma about a meal like that being too hard and too time consuming.
He made some good points, and you should check it out.
Anyway, while at the store on Friday night, I saw the whole chickens, just sitting there, only a couple of bucks and thought…why not. So I went with it. Along with a few other cheap ingredients, that I mostly had on hand…
…it turned out pretty good!
And I had more than one very happy customer.
