February 1 marks the official start of lacrosse season for my son.
While I am excited about cheering on his college team, I am not looking forward to spending two hours freezing my ass off in the bleachers! Still, I plan to suck it up and go to the first scrimmage next weekend.
This week, my Mom and husband decided to go watch this weekend’s intra-team scrimmage. My Mom wisely noted that my (freshman) son is more likley to get some playing time against his own teammates. But, I had a rough week at work and felt like I was fighting off a sinus infection, so I decided to stay home. The weather forecast (high of 30ºF with a wind chill “feels like” temperature of 9ºF) didn’t do anything to change my mind.
To allay my guilt, I decided to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies to send up in a care package. I used the Nestle® Dark Chocolate Morsels that I found at Target a few weeks ago, and added some finely chopped pecans to sneak in a bit of nutrition.
With 53% cocoa, do these have more or less cocoa than semi-sweet morsels?
I was surprised by how large these morsels are–probably 2-3x regular chocolate chips!
Does anyone else still use a hand mixer? I have yet to invest in a KitchenAid® stand mixer.
The cookies baked up nicely.
Cleanup was easy with Palmolive® FreshInfusions liquid dish soap.
I was given the opportunity to try out this new line of liquid dish soap through Influenster. While I love the light floral scent of the Ginger White Tea variety, I’m not sure I like my dish soap to smell like flowers. I feel like I need to rinse my dishes more than usual to make sure my next meal doesn’t take like a florist shop. I think I just expect dishsoap to smell like lemons–maybe I will like the Lemon Thyme variety better. (I tried the Lime Basil variety, but it reminded me too much of lime Jell-O®, so I gave it to a friend.) The product itself is great–it foams up nicely and its concentrated formula cleans a lot of dishes with a few drops. I’m interested to see what other people think.
FTC Notice: I was provided a free sample of Palmolive® FreshInfusions liquid dish soap to try. The opinions expressed here are 100% my own.
Do you put nuts in your chocolate chip cookies?
no no no to the nuts but YES TO THE FLOWERS.
I like everything to smell like flowers—except me 🙂
Do not like nuts in my choc chip cookies! Weird considering how much I love nuts! Not sure I mind what my soap smells like- it sure sounds lovely. 🙂
I like nuts but I don't like nuts in my cookies, ice cream or chocolate, but I do like cookies with ground nuts in the batter — its the crunch I don't like I guess!
I never really put nuts in my baked goods. It's too much for me. I'm not a huge nut lover, except for nut butters, that is.
Yes! I love my hand mixer… it does the job so I never worries about a Kitchen Aid either. Cookies sound yummy… you're right, that's not really "dark" chocolate!
If you don't want your backside to go frozen in the bleachers, you gotta duct tape a space heater to your booty cheeks. Duh! I'm a non-nut type person when it comes to cookies. I want soft & chewy with no nuts, please.
I definitely prefer chewy! Hard cookies make too many crumbs which someone might try to use as evidence against me.
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