Clark had a table tennis tournament today. He's made noises about wanting me to finally come and watch him play, so I decided to be a good wife for once and drove down to South Park to oblige him. I think I was the only spectator, so it was me clapping by myself in the background whenever Clark scored a point. However, there were nachos for 50 cents, so everybody wins!

By the time we got home Clark was just too worn out to do much besides sit in his chair and watch our DVR recordings of the Osaka Spring Sumo Tournament. I'm always game for sitting! Sitting is the best!

Okay, so after two hours of sumo I baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies, because watching fat guys push each other around will make you hungry. I used Alton Brown's recipe for chewy chocolate chip cookies. I burned the first batch. I totally blame that our meek oven timer. Its beeps only reach the second floor half of the time. I'm lucky that Clark likes burnt things; he ate most of them while enjoying his customary Saturday coffee. He also likes old and stale food, so it's nice for the bottom line.

Okay, so I made a second batch, but it was light and fluffy instead of chewy. The cookies were also shaped like half-domes instead of flat circles like normal chocolate chip cookies.

Clark made a third batch out of dough that had been left at room temperature and those turned out just right. To bad there was only enough left to make two each. Summary: ignore the part of the recipe that says to chill the dough. Also, the ice cream scooper is unnecessary.

Clark also made a pun for the day: ご chewy ください。 (go chewy kudasai) It's a pun on ご注意ください (gochikudasai = be careful)...okay so not that funny, but Clark is dreaming of building a cookie ad campaign around it.

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posted by Alison 3/21/2009 07:35:00 PM : (0) comments : splink