Creative Dawn

Today was a day of getting things done.  Cleaning, cooking, baking and errands, whew tired now!  I was just going to make some banana bread, but half way through that I decided to make some peanut butter cookies, my favorite.  My banana bread recipe is from the mother of an ex-boyfriend.  I love making it and the house smells so wonderful afterwords.  There are quite a few cookie recipes that I use, but today instead of making a traditional peanut butter cookie with the criss-cross top I added peanut butter chips.  Wow are they good, I had four!  Yummy for the the tummy, but not so good for the waistline. The painting here is large.  Normally I don't get to paint pictures this size because the materials are a bit more than my budget allows, but this was free, the best price of all.  It is about 3 feet by 4 feet, the wood isn't cut perfectly so if you look close you can see the border is uneven.  The paisley shape just seemed like a g...

Today, I was in a baking mood.  I just love to bake it can be so relaxing.  The only bad thing is that my husband doesn't eat sweets at all which is bad for my waistline.  The good thing is that I can bring them to work.  In my past job, all of my friends in the kitchen looked forward to my treats, hopefully the new job will have lots of baked goods lovers too.  I had all of the ingredients for oatmeal cookies except for raisins.  I scoured my recipe books and came up with a basic recipe and instead of the raisins that were called for I added peanut butter chips.  I added a little extra sweetness once the cookies were cooked.  I had small bits of both white and dark chocolate chips.  After melting them down in the microwave, I spread the chocolate on the tops of the cookies and let them cool and harden.  YUMMY!  So, tomorrow see if the new coworkers appreciate my treats.  Wish me luck!