1/2 Egg

This new-found duty as wife has found me cooking and baking in the kitchen much more often than I had been. (Sorry Mom, but I just didn't know what was in your cabinets or what to do with it.) Now, however, I know exactly what is in the pantry (the pride of the apartment) and in the frig. I have also taken to planning a tentative meal schedule by the month, one month to be exact and emphasis on the tentative. We'll see how this goes in months to come. I have so many intentions to be organized, but I haven't had any schoolwork to do yet.

I have been working in a research lab at the hospital for the last few weeks and they have been very welcoming. It has been almost effortless making friends with them. Anyway, every Wednesday is a lab meeting with everyone involved in the lab and it was treat day. I hadn't baked anything in a long time so I figured it was time to bring out the sweets. Monday, I decided to make brownies from scratch to try out my skills. Not quite up to par with what Heidi (my sister-in-law) makes, but they were good enough for Tony to say he liked them. I thought they were too dry, or burned, its hard to tell sometimes. The treats I decided to make for treat day were Monster Cookies!! I made them once during this last school year and they are forever since my favorite cookie. Once again, Tony (and everyone) said they were delicious, but I thought they were too dry. This weeks quest is nutella cups, little bowls of dough with nutella in the middle of them. About to come out of the oven this very minute. Didn't quite turn out the way I wanted them to, but anything with nutella is bound to be amazing regardless of its current state.

This brings me back to the title. 1/2 Egg. The egg. The limiting ingredient in further dividing the recipe down. I'm not baking for an entire chapter anymore, or a small group, or a family of ten, but I'm baking for two people who would really prefer to maintain, if not shorten, their waistlines, and the egg prevents me from doing just that. I have profoundly discovered that cooking with an apron is very useful. I love being able to not worry about wiping my hands on my clothes, which I would do anyway, so it is just perfect. Now I use it all the time. Well, it is time for me to go. Tony cooked dinner tonight and it is bound to be fabulous. TTFN!