late night kitchen adventure

PC and I have this habit of playing video games in the evening for hours. Inevitably we will turn to each other and our respective stomachs will gurgle and grumble. 

"I'm hungry," he says. "What is there to eat?"

And then it is my job to figure out something to make. Usually I resort to chocolate chip cookies straight out of the oven, covered in vanilla ice cream and slathered with chocolate syrup. But last night I didn't have any cookie mix, we were all out of ice cream and there was no chocolate syrup to be found.

That is when the miracle of the internet came into play. To the Googles! Because the internet knows everything. I typed in various ingredients that were stored in the pantry and tagged on the word dessert. I was greeted with hundreds of recipes, so I sorted through various ones that sounded appetizing and that we also had all the necessities. Mostly I wanted to only use things that we already had because a) it was late and i didn't want to go anywhere I didn't have to and b) going to the store means spending money, and I really just can't do too much of that at the moment.

So I found a recipe that was just exactly what I was looking for and I set to work. I got out all the ingredients I would need and started measuring them out and mixing them together.

After a couple minutes of measuring and mixing, my arm was tired from stirring everything together and I just wanted to sit for a bit. But the dough was looking fabulous and the oven was hot, so I spooned the dough onto the cookie sheet and set it to bake for 10 minutes.

The dough, undergoing transformation.

Ten minutes later I was greeted with piping hot chocolate chip scones that were absolutely delicious. Seriously you guys, I am turning into quite the little domestic housewife, except for the whole not actually being a wife part, you know how it goes.

We had a couple for dessert last night, and a few for breakfast this morning. The dough yields about 18 scones depending on how big you make them. I just used a table spoon, so some of my scones were a lot larger than others, but it's really up to you to decide how big you want them to be.


Chocolate Chip Scones
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 egg, well beaten plus milk, to make 1 cup
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 450. Grease or spray a large cookie sheet.
Stir together dry ingredients including the sugar. Cut butter into flour mixture. Add chocolate chips (or raisins if you want, or nothing if you're a plain jane kind of girl (or guy)), stir to mix well. Beat egg in measuring cup. Add milk to make 1 cup. Stir into flour. Drop roughly tablespoon size scoops on cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.

*You can knead 15-20 times and roll out and cut if you wish, but I prefer the ease of the drop method*

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I have been a really bad blogger lately. I haven't been posting all that much or commenting as much as I used to. I've been up on my reading though, just you know, lazy bones this one. I'm not really sure as to why, other than I got a little overwhelmed with the end of last semester and things with Princey have been rocky at best.

Most of the time we get along alright, but I have called my mom a couple times in a crying frenzy over something stupid that transpired between the two of us. I keep hoping that things will mend themselves, you know? But really only time will tell. I try to tell myself to take it one day at a time. Either we'll end up together or we won't and no amount of pining or worrying or crying is going to make a difference. Things have been nice lately, and I'm hoping they will stay that way.

So on to brighter and happier things shall we? Oh good.

Now that the semester is over, I'm only taking one class. That means more time for stuff I actually like doing. Like blogging. I promise to be a better blogger. Maybe even post pictures of things that aren't artwork! Can you imagine? It's been a while, I know.

And in addition to promising to get back into the blogging swing, I've discovered that I'm a dab hand in the kitchen, wouldn't you know? I can cook things like hamburgers and spaghetti and tacos. I can make awesome chocolate chip pancakes and fry an egg with the best of them. And my spicy cayenne ranch dip is to die for. And it is spicy, lemme tell you.

Have you been to Applebee's? Poor Moscow, really it's one of the nicest restaurants in town. Definitely on the higher end of the spectrum here in this tiny little podunk place in the middle of nowhere. But I do like their food, especially the Bourbon Street Steak. Please, if you haven't eaten that delectable morsel of meaty goodness you need to go right now. RIGHT NOW!

I am getting way off topic.

I bring up Applee's to you because of this dessert that they have. And let us just agree that chocolate chip cookies and vanilla ice cream drenched in chocolate syrup might just be the best invention ever next to my mother's award winning apple pie (seriously, it's super delicious and I will never be able to top it).

So anyway, I had a craving tonight for delicious vanilla ice cream soaked chocolate chip cookies but I really didn't want to waste precious pennies on something I could make myself. And I did. Because I can be domestic and stuff sometimes. Actually, I really like playing house, but don't tell anyone okay? Okay.

Tell me please, what have you been up to lately? Let's get reacquainted. I feel like we barely know each other anymore!