Thursday Night Yumminess

Today is my day off from work. I love my days off. I know most people would agree that days off are awesome to do things that you normally don't have time for. I just love being productive. Today I...


#1. finished my vacation blogging (finally),
#2. got 1 hour of live CE credit (my registration expires at the end of May),
#3. ran 5 miles at a 9:44 pace with NO knee pain,
#4. got my haircut at a new salon (my normal stylist cancelled at the last second 'cause she's sick),
#4.5. found a new stylist to go to when my regular stylist starts maternity leave in July,
#5. went to Wegmans for some groceries,
#6. made 4 dozen cookies, and
#7. made myself a BLAT for dinner.


Allow me to elaborate on some of that. I really love baking. I'm not great at it (ie guava empanadas), but I love doing it. Normally I don't have enough time during the week to do it though. Also, I'm not a fan of having baked goods in the house. So, today seemed like a perfect day to bake. Why? Well, I'll tell you...


#1. It's my day off (see above if you need more elaboration).
#2. I have a cookie recipe I wanted to try (from Food Network Magazine, of course).
#3. Peter & I are going to poker night tonight, so I can bring cookies to share!


So, after my hair appointment at Scott Miller I headed across the street to Wegmans to buy a few things on my grocery list & stuff for my cookies.

Do you think the lady checking me out thought I had a problem?

The big bags of M&Ms, toffee, chocolate chips & peanut butter chips are all for my Kids Candy Cookies recipe. The Jelly Bellys are for me & the Cadbury Creme Eggs are for Peter.... we have a problem with Easter candy.

Cookie Ingredients

This cookie dough was phenomenal! Baking them didn't seem necessary.

Cookie drops made with my handy scooper from my mom!

It said it would make 25 cookies... it made 4 dozen normal sized cookies!

Excellent!

Since my husband didn't know if he'd be home for dinner, I decided to make something easy I've been wanting for a while... a BLAT. I learned about these in New Zealand, but never got a chance to order one. The BLAT is Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado, and Tomato. I love BLTs (hold the mayo, of course) and I love avocado. This just seemed like a match made in heaven. I bought a fresh loaf of sourdough bread at Wegmans & made a pretty awesome sandwich.

Yummy BLAT!

So pretty!

I took this as my opportunity to attempt avocado growing again. We'll see how it goes this time! Fingers crossed!

My avocado plant (take 2)

ADDENDUM: My super sweet cookies were a big hit at poker night. The boys (& Pooja) must've been distracted by their supreme yumminess 'cause I kicked their butts at poker! Girl power!