Sweet deliverance!

Well, Nitty woke up this morning and went outside, drank a bunch of water and ate all her breakfast!  We live to fight another day!  It made me happy and motivated to get a few things done.....a little cleaning and some baking!
I'm always looking for 'crispy' cookie recipes and I found a great one today!  From The Kitchen Magpie and she even explained what makes crispy cookies and what doesn't so I learned something.
These are super crispy and delicious...of course I had to try them....warm...fresh out of the oven.  It was a great day for baking and being in the kitchen because it rained most of the day and it's still raining.  No watering!  Yay!
These are crispy chocolate chip cookies like I remember them when I was growing up. Then something changed in the recipes and they started getting 'soft'.  This recipe solves that!

You drop them by teaspoonful and then dip a flat bottomed glass in water and flatten them.  The water keeps the glass from sticking to the cookie.  Who knew?  I always dipped the glass in sugar.  Another lesson learned.

If you lived next door I would call you over for some tea and warm, out of the oven, 'crispy' chocolate chip cookies!

I made another batch of my Mediterranean salad....I love it and it is really good for you.  The gal that I got the recipe from, a blogger in Australia, she ate this to lose weight and she did!  This may be my summer diet food!  My grand kids love it too.  Cuke, cooked corn off the cob, red onion, red or orange pepper, lemon juice, olive oil and feta cheese.........yummo!  You can add whatever spices you like...I add fresh parsley, cardamon and salt and pepper.  You could add other veggies too.

I made a scrubbie last night out of the yarn I picked up at Walmart.  One of the gals that sent me a bunch of supplies for Stitch Mania asked if she could pay me to make some for her.  In thanking her for all the supplies, I sent her a little scrubbie in the mail and she loved it!  I said she couldn't pay me but I would make her some more.  She likes blue and purple so this is the blue.  I'll pick up some purple yarn next time.  I like the variegation and it has a turquoise and a royal blue with white. 

 I also picked up this yesterday at Wally World.........I love butter but I searched for the best tasting butter flavored healthy spread and this is what popped up in 1st place.  By gum it does taste like butter!  I used it on my french toast this morning and in the cookies.....you could have fooled me!
I also got some of that butter flavored spray to put on my popcorn.  Trying to eat as healthy as possible but I don't like sacrificing flavor.  I also got a sugar substitute but haven't used it yet.  I'll let you know!

I hope everyone is staying dry!  I had to go out in the rain to harvest some herbs for my salad but just on the front porch....I made it easy on myself for just such occasions! LOL!
Happy Trails!!!