Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I made these back around the release of the second Hunger Games. I asked one of my friends what kind of cookies I should make for the midnight movie premier that we were going to. His reply was "Katniss Cookies." This is what I decided to make to be the Katniss Cookies.

Enjoy. 

And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Mix together:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, soft

1 1/4 cup  dark brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

Add:

2 eggs

2 t. vanilla

1/4 t. cinnamon

Mix in after sifting together:

2 cup all-purpose flour

1 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

Add:

3 cups oatmeal (whole oats)

1/2 to 3/4 of pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips

Optional- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Bake 350* for 10 minutes on a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

*This is the original recipe but I added another 1/4 t. of cinnamon, 1 cup less of oats, and added both semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips. 

Tell me how it goes if your try the recipe!!

More than just Cookies

So my favorite things to bake are cookies and especially sandwich cookies. Someone asks and I will whip a whoopie cookie right up. However, over Thanksgiving weekend I wanted to make something new and different than the traditional pies that are commonly eaten over Holidays. I decided to make this Pear Cranberry Slab Pie from Martha Stewart. It was delicious! I plan on saving this recipe and hopefully one day soon making it into a more individual smaller pies.

http://www.marthastewart.com/1035237/pear-cranberry-slab-pie?center=0&gallery=1042732&slide=%3Fxsc%3Dsoc_pin_2013_11_20_Holiday_Thanksgiving_B&1035237&crlt.pid=camp.js9YduSGpAay

I luckily was able to share my creation with some of my family and friends, and it was a huge success. You should try it, or ask me to make it for you sometime, I don't think you'll regret it!

Pictures below..

And of course Martha's picture of the final project, mine got eaten up before I had a chance to snap a picture.

Man I wish I had a food stylist on hand. And a ladder. And a pro photographer. 

xoxo,

kravings

Introducing kravings!!

Daddy Kim turned the Big 6-0!!

Love my family, just some pictures to show how much I love them and what a great time we had!

banana coconut bread…mmmmm..

all i want to do is bake. i'm trying out new recipes and i am really happy with the way this one turned out. thought i would share this mmmmm sweet picture.

All love

I've been listening a lot to Ingrid Michaelson, all her matter of the heart songs. This one below is called All Love, the lyrics aren't anything special, but I love LOVE and this song is all love, it's all my stupid love.

When I push the sheets away

From your face and watch you sleep all day here

And when I push you away

And say you simply cannot stay here

It's all love, all love

It's all of my stupid love

When I say you take away

The most important parts of me with you

And when I've had the grayest day

You add more gray, that's just your way, it's true

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

You can't be the one to kill the pain anymore

You let me in but then you slam my fingers in the door

I've had enough but I keep asking you to give me more

When I say that there's no way

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

this is how i feel about politics.

Okay so this is not how I fully feel about politics but I do feel that with Obama winning this election I want to leave the country and just go travel. Mostly I want to travel. But I guess even though I am disappointed with this election and another four years of Obama, I still want to stay in my country and support America.

God bless America.

I think we'll really need it now.