cookies

tonight i came home from a drumming session and decided to make cookies. i found a recipie for which i had most of the ingredients. in searching for some of the ingredients i found out how moth infested our cabinets are. the strangest place i found a moth was inside a chocolate covered fig. the trash can is now overflowing with mothy stuff.

what i was looking for while discovering moths was nuts. i found a small nearly empty bag that had been mostly devoured by moths who left their signature silky webs. i pondered, what could replace nuts? then i realized i had some leftover buckwheat and oats from the morning, took a whif of them to make sure they hadn't fermented or something, and put a cup of them into my mix of butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and salt. since i bake cookies about once every ten years, i was game for anything and held little expectation.

after mixing a few minutes, i took a taste, remembering how good the raw dough tasted when mom made cookies. these tasted a bit different than mom's but satisfied my sweet tooth nonetheless. i popped them in the oven and they didn't cook as fast as they were supposed to. worried they would suddenly turn into little rocks, i kept poking them with a fork to make sure they were staying soft. after 20 minutes, more than twice the recommended cooking time, i pulled them out and now they sit cooling on the stove. i've had a couple. not too bad. i wouldn't want to bank a baking career on them, but i feel deeply responsible for having recycled my oats!