Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies For Comfort

Needing some comfort food,

I made these cookies for the first time on Saturday.

I took them to work and my boss/friend

said they were delicious.

So two votes for delicious..

Maybe you should try them?

Recipe at the end.

I made some new candle bowls to see

 me through the winter.

I also made this pillow out of

an old linen piece. 

Spending hours reading here, snuggled 

under a quilt I made years ago.

I usually pieced my backs to save fabric use.

Saddened by Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death.

Such a great loss.

So many great performances.

"Lester Bangs" in Almost Famous

a family favorite

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Comfort Food

Makes 2 1/2 dozen

1c butter softened

1 c firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 c granulated sugar

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 c flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3 cups uncooked regular oats

1 pkg chocolate chunk morsels

1 c toasted chopped pecans

Preheat to 350

Beat butter, sugars, add eggs, vanilla

Combine flour, soda, salt

Add oats

Add dry ingredients to butter mixture

Gently stir in chocolate chunks and pecans.

Crop by rounded tablespoons or I use a scoop onto

silpat or parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake for 10-12 minutes or until slightly

 browned around edges depending on oven.

I found these baked better with 1 sheet in

 middle of oven at 12 minutes.

Yum

Update:

Several gals tried the recipe and loved it

(see comments)

so do give it a go..

I recommend only using chocolate chunks

for that big burst of chocolate

It's Cold

Walking in the garden in summer pj's and a sweatshirt

We have all been talking weather for 5 months

Global warming anyone?

The roses are at their best right now

The bottles are coming out on the bottle brush

Bees will be here soon 

so will the hummers

Lots of shade

Lots of pink silks dropping soon

requiring lots more cleanup

Yin Yang

are actually complimentary

not opposing forces

interacting to form a whole

greater than either separate part

shadow cannot exist without light

Found this on 

Carole's post this a.m.

chased away a few shadows for me

Some wise words to keep in mind from  

From Patton Oswalt on facebook

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

It's cold

but many things warm my heart

I Don't Care

I don't care what the calendar or anyone else says.

It's fall.

I need it, I want it, I NEED it.

I want to turn off the annoying air and fans.

I want to burn candles everywhere.

I want to wear my wooly socks and flannel pj's.

Constantly

Hunkering down inside my cocoon does not seem

as quirky (or psychologically damaging), in the fall

 as it does in the blaze of summer.

I want the kids home for the holidays,

and the pooches to stop panting

especially when Howie rocks the bed..

pant pant pant

"Get off!"

I want soups and stews and crusty breads

and an adjustable waistband.

I don't care, it's what I want.