What we've been doing

We've been hunting and Christmas shopping, baking and cooking and shoveling snow (lots of snow!)tending chickens ( we're even getting a couple of eggs already! My how those little chicks grew fast!) and sometimes we conjugate latin verbs and solve for X and try and figure out the Boer War. We also are reading the Iliad out loud. Try that sometime if you want to twist your toungue around all those Greek names. Truly gives new meaning to it's Greek to me!

The Cooky that got the hobbits through January

This is it: Outrageous Chocolate Chip Cookies courtesy of the Robin Hood flour bag. This cooky has everything:chocolate chips, peanut butter, and oatmeal!
1 cup butter, softened and blended with 1 cup white supar, 2/3 cup brown sugar, 1 cup peanut butter, 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
2 cups flour
1 cup quick oats
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt ( stir these together and add to butter/sugar mixture. Stir in
1 package chocolate chips


Bake on ungreased cooky sheets at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. Let sit on cooky sheet for a minute before removing to wire rack to cool. Very good!