Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Fall Baking

I hate Tuesdays. Hate them. On Monday at least there's still a vague memory of the weekend despite four work days ahead of you. But on Tuesday the weekend memories have completely faded with more than half of the work week to go. It's just awful. Tuesdays should always be cancelled.

*End rant*

Today I was still a little bit hungover from the crazy weekend+Monday of sugar consumption. No more. I couldn't even eat a banana because I could not stomach those 12 grams of sugar. And thus I was under on sugar for the day. Hooray!

My mother has a holiday party tomorrow, and signed up for dessert despite the fact that she cannot bake. So I made these chocolate chip pumpkin cookies from Two Peas and Their Pod. I ended up with five dozen, though the recipe claimed it makes three dozen. This never happens to me. I always end up with less than the recipe reads. And they were fairly large cookies, so they must have been HUGE for her.

Note that these cookies are by no means healthy, and were I cooking them for myself, I would make them completely differently. This recipe calls for a good amount of butter, sugar and white flour, which I rarely use in baking anymore. But they did come out soft and flavorful and delicious, so no complaints on the recipe composition if that's what you are looking for. I approve.

On exercise, I was a complete dumb-dumb today and forgot my bag at home, so no running today. I did manage to pull in a 40 minute NROL workout before calling it a day. I promise I will stop being a slacker tomorrow.

I'm calling good food and a good run tomorrow. And I have a spaghetti squash waiting to be eaten. Stay tuned.

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