It’s cookie baking time. What else are you going to do on a rainy day? I am searching for the perfect, chewy oatmeal raisin cookie. This batch is good but not chewy enough and lacking in something I just can’t put my finger on. Some elusive spice.
I found the recipe on AllRecipes – more and more I find I’m getting my recipes online rather than pulling out my cook books and looking them up there. The best part of online recipes is that they are usually rated and reviewed. You can get some really good suggestions from the reviewers that the original poster of the recipe hadn’t thought of.
The reviews that crack me up are the people that totally mangled the recipe because they didn’t have all the ingredients on hand and then they give the recipe a poor rating. "I didn’t want to mess with making a bechemel sauce so I used canned cream of mushroom soup instead. And I hate shrimp so I used leftover hamburger. Even so this was really awful. 1 star." Excuse me ~ you don’t get to rate the recipe unless you make it properly from start to finish first.
What did turn out yesterday was Ina Garten’s portobello mushroom lasagna. Only I didn’t use portobellos. And I added chunks of turkey. And I still give it 5 stars.
Those cookies look so good. Some oatmeal cookie recipes don’t call for cinnamon and I love cinnamon in oatmeal cookies so I add it every time.
I agree with you, I find the best recipes online. I love to read the reviews on http://www.epicurious.com It is so funny what some people do to mangle the recipes.
Cream of tarter added to a well beaten egg white may add a bite more chewiness. YUM. I wish i could have one of those cookies.
What a pretty picture of your kitchen! I love big fat raisins in my oatmeal cookies.
I use the Oatmeal cookie recipe on the oatmeal box. I also go to AllRecipes a lot. And that is funny about how people do that and leave bad ratings.