Saturday was Spin-In and I tried out a new chocolate cookie recipe. I've been craving chocolate for a while, and these cookies sounded good. I found the recipe on Pinterest, which can sometimes be tricky. Thankfully, this recipe worked out even though I didn't do everything exactly. You see, the recipe makes 12 giant cookies. I didn't want giant cookies...I wanted something more like 24. I read some of the comments from people who tried the recipe, but made smaller cookies. So I went for it.
I decided to make one batch of dough. The recipe called for 2-1/2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips (yes, that's a lot of chocolate chips). I wanted nuts in my cookies, so I cut the chips down to a scant 2 cups and added 1 cup of chopped, salted almonds. I divided the dough into 12 pieces just to see how big the original size would be. Holy Cookie, Batman! Those puppies were huge! The author really did mean giant! Then I divided the 12 into 24. Still too big. I ended up just eyeballing it and managed to get about 40 cookies out of the batch.
I think they turned out pretty good:
The recipe is here: http://www.annies-eats.com/2011/01/14/giant-double-chocolate-cookies/
Sunday, we met the Daughter at Stanford University (where she did her undergrad degrees) to walk the Dish trail. It had been several years since the last time I walked it and I had forgotten how hilly the trail was! Needless to say, my leg muscles are complaining about how I abused them!
It was a hot day and visibility was pretty good. I took a few pictures. The Dish:
San Francisco:
Moffett Field:
and Hoover Tower at Stanford University.
We had a nice lunch afterwards and I went home to
I finished spinning the Pilgrim yarn:
and a close up:
Specs:
Started: 2/19/2011;
Finished 5/11/13
Merino-Tussah Silk 4 oz. from A Verb for Keeping Warm
325.7yds, 17 WPI
And I made a little progress on the Royale handspun. Tomorrow I'll try to post a picture of the new yarn I started spinning at Spin-In.
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