Rainy Day Recipe
04 May 2009 6 Comments
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Mix one set of Mom-size flannel pants and hooded sweatshirt with two sets little-girl-jammies. Throw in some frog-style rainboots and a pinch of umbrellas for the mid-morning jaunt to stomp in puddles.
Add in approximately one thousand miscellaneous Legos and a floor suitable for Lego city-building. It is helpful to have two kids to really pull off this well so that Mom can stay on the couch and noodle around on the Internet.
A good soundtrack is key, so plan your favorite rainy-day tunes, or your favorite Pandora station, or even your favorite radio station. Throw in a good-sized soupcon of kids messing around on the piano, with recognizable songs popping up here and there in the din.
Now assemble banana-cinnamon-butterscotch-chip cookies from a new recipe. The dough seems awfully goopy, but your helpers will enjoy slopping them on the cookie sheets anyway, and your kitchen will smell delicious. Final judgment: a good way to use overripe bananas if you’re tired of banana bread, good lunchbox cookies, but be glad you added more flour than the recipe called for and sprayed the cookie sheets well. Let the kids bring some into their blanket-tent-clubhouse for a special meeting of the “Friendship and Reading and Fun Club.”
Make sure to have plenty more blankets and pillows for cuddling and reading D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Plan tuna melts and Crash Hot Potatoes for dinner, with juicy red seedless grapes and corn on the side. Think of your husband, off studying for his last exam of the year (Civil Procedure, on Tuesday), and feel so proud that he’s worked so hard this year. Be happy that you went grocery shopping yesterday and don’t need to leave the house again today.
Remember that summer is coming soon. Don’t think about all the grading that must be done today.
May 04, 2009 @ 04:04:53
Your day sounds awesome. I love D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths. Please share the recipe for the cookies, too.
My son had a birthday party to go to, and my husband had to go visit his dad in the hospital, so they went off at 12:30 and my daughter and I made bagels and started chocolate cookies while waiting for her friend to come by for a playdate. Then they played all afternoon. When my son came home, he played Webkinz happily while the girls played elsewhere. I caught up on some e-mail, started a new recipe (carrot-spinach-rice stew via Mark Bittman’s blog) and found out classes are canceled tomorrow because of swine flu. Then I started answering all the e-mails from students wondering if the paper is still due tomorrow.
May 04, 2009 @ 04:31:15
Wendy, here it comes:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup mashed bananas (2.5 or two large, one small)
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/3 cups flour
pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup butterscotch chips
Spray cookie sheets or line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350.
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and mix till light and fluffy.
Mash bananas and mix with baking soda. Let sit for two minutes.
Mix banana mixture into butter mixture. In separate bowl, whisk together flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon. Mix flour mixture in banana-butter mixture just until combined. Fold in chips.
Bake for 11-13 minutes or until edges are golden-brown. Cool on wire racks.
May 05, 2009 @ 21:23:32
Sounds like a perfect rainy Saturday to me!
Dec 13, 2009 @ 04:08:20
Jackie, just wanted to let you know I tried these cookies today (finally, 7 months later, but in my defense I was off my feet for 3 of those months) and they’re delicious! I love them! They’re kind of puffy and light but also sweet and delicious. Thanks!
Dec 13, 2009 @ 23:00:27
Wendy, I’m so happy to hear that! I’m gearing up for Christmas cookie baking today, so this was a funny kind of synchronicity!