My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

I. LOVE. Cookies

I thought I found this recipe on Pinterest, but now I can't find it. I'll keep looking.
I was asked to make someone else's recipe for a funeral recently, wasn't a fan, and had to make these right after. Enjoy.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 cup Butter, softened
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 cup Brown Sugar, packed
- 2 Eggs
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 3 cups Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 2 teaspoons Hot Water
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 2 cups Chocolate Chips

- Cream together butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
- Beat in eggs, then stir in vanilla.
- Dissolve baking soda in hot water (I just put them into my mixer on top of each other, ain't nobody got time for that!), add to batter. Then salt.
- Stir in flour and then chocolate chips.
- Shape into balls, place onto greased cookie sheets (I usually make them really small so I can make a ton at a time and when I eat 12 of them I don't have to feel quite as bad.)
- Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

The best.

Dead Posts

I have at least 3 or 4 blog post ideas that have been sitting in the notes on my phone for who knows how long. They seemed like brilliant ideas at the time, but then I forgot about them and when I got back to them, I just wasn't as committed. 

Maybe I should post them any way. 

We shall see.

Lincolnisms VI

I forget what was happening, but he was still in a diaper at this point, "I think I just peed a little." and then laughed.

"I think the mommy horsey is called a lamb, and the daddy horsey is call day blah blah, and the Michael (my brother, currently living with us) horsey is called a piggy, but where is the Lincoln horsey and the baby horsey?" (there is always a mommy and daddy and Lincoln and baby of whatever he sees or is playing with.)

"My church is open all day long like a bird flying over our car."

.....?

L: "Mommy! I want a Barbie daddy!"

Me: "A daddy Barbie?"

L: "Yes!!"

Matt: "We've got to go home."

L: "We could go to the market or the coffee place (?) or sumthin."

M: "Lincoln, no one calls it the market anymore."

L: "Well, the little piggy went to the market."

L: 1  M: 0

(He says well a lot. We love it.)

L: "Mommy, I have to grow up." (pretty out of the blue)

Me: "NO!"

L: "Please mommy, will you just let me grow up?"

Me: "I guess. But I'll be sad about it."

L: "OK!"

Grabs the bag of chips off the counter, rips off the clip, "You can't hide from me you silly chips!"

L: "Mom, guess what I dude."

Me: "What did you say?"

L: "Guess what I dood."

Me: "Did?"

L: "Yeah."

"Its a giant SPOTOPUS!"

Beef and Broccoli

I'm not really one for Chinese food. It takes me a while to work up to trying something different. Recently I branched all the way out to beef and broccoli at Panda (I am usually only a chicken eater). 

Yum.

So when I found a crockpot beef and broccoli recipe, I decided to try it.

Slow Cooker Broccoli-Beef

INGREDIENTS

• -1.5 pounds flank steak, thinly sliced and chopped into 2 inch pieces (I looked at buying flank steak, saw how much it was and bought stew meat instead - it was tasty still)
• -1 cup beef broth
• -⅔ cup low sodium soy sauce
• -⅓ cup brown sugar
• -1 tablespoon sesame oil (Didn't have any, used olive oil)
• -1 tablespoon minced garlic
• -¼ teaspoon red chili flakes (optional) (Yes)
• -4 cups broccoli florets
• -2 tablespoons cornstarch + 4 tablespoons cold water

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Grease the inside of a slow cooker. Add steak, beef broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, garlic, and chili flakes. Cover and cook on high for 2-3 hours or low 4-5 hours.
2. minutes before serving, uncover the slow cooker. In a small bowl whisk corn starch and water until dissolved. Add to slow cooker and stir. Cover and allow to cook another 20-25 minutes.
3. Just before serving, place broccoli in a large tupperware, fill with ½ inch of water, and place the lid on in an off-set manner so that the container can vent. Microwave on high for 3 minutes. Drain, stir broccoli into slow cooker, and serve.

Matthew and I both enjoyed it, that's a win!