Long Time No See!

So it's been a LONG time since I've seen such a time as this-- a time where I have a whole week off with NO obligations! The possibilities are endless. I can actually do things that I never get around to doing because I'm too tired from work.

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I am so looking forward to not being tired all the time, and to enjoying some of my hobbies. I am going to (finally and for the first time since I got it) change my guitar strings... I can pull out the sewing machine I bought and learn how to use it. I can hang the picture I bought several weeks ago that has been disguised as a pillow on my couch (and not a very soft one at that!)... Oh, how I hope that I don't waste my time away!

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Yesterday I embarked upon my first experiment ever in making up a cookie recipe from scratch. I have modified existing cookie recipes several times, but have never started from scratch. There aren't many ways to alter basic dough, except when you are trying to make gluten-free, dairy-free dough... I've tried just using all purpose gluten-free flour... Not so good. Tasted like beans. Tried substituting rice flour. Flattens out into a cookie-disc. So I came up with a fluffy cookie with body, which doesn't taste at all gluten-free or dairy free... And they are actually very low in sugar too! Can such a thing as a good tasting cookies exist with these criteria?? Yes!

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I am going to call them White Chocolate Spice Cookies. The only "bad" part is that they are actually fluffy, as I said before-- usually cookies aren't fluffy. You could take the same recipe and put it in a loaf pan and make a bread with it. Maybe with walnuts though instead of white chocolate chips. But they taste very good, and very normal! No one would ever know they were "special".

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Well, that's it for now. Perhaps I will update further into my vacation! :)

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