Adventures in Cooking
The Great Cookie Experiment
Lauren and Mathilda
It was a lazy some-day afternoon, and after much driving and giggles, and slaying of dragons and fluffy creatures, two writers decided: "Let's make cookies."
"Ah yes, but these will be no ordinary cookies," said one writer to the other.
"No ordinary cookies they will be," confirmed writer two.
"So extra-ordinary they shall be that no logical man will ever eat them." To which writer two gave out a hearty chuckle.
They set out to get a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, which was easily found in any American cookbook, of which they had plenty (as writers and books of any sort generally go together). Searching through, and finding very quickly a basic recipe for chocolate chip cookies, they began their mischievous plot.
After getting all of the ingredients from the various cabinets and cupboards, they exchanged grins and started searching for something fun and exciting and incredibly stupid with which to replace the chocolate chips and (optional) macadamia nuts. While one put it all together:
the other had ended its quest and dropped out of third person. I, formerly known as writer two [Editor's note: her name is Lauren], and my partner in crime, Mathilda had decided that the most illogical and disgusting combination to put in a lovely chocolate chip cookie batter would be water chestnuts and chopped olives:
After obtaining these from our good friends Lindsay and Ralph, we set out to complete this stupid task.
As our great minds unfolded and graciously extended some creativity into what would have been rather boring and ordinary cookies, we put it together:
Put together, of course, only by underpaid minors working in our sweatshops in third world countries. [Editor's note: This isn't entirely true. We have many adults working in our sweatshops too.]
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