I haven't been cooking much lately. Since school started right after we got back from vacation, I've been pretty busy reading, reading, sitting in class, and reading. As I mentioned, though, not eating well makes me feel like crap, so I did my best to carve out some time to cook this week. Last week, we cut up onions, red peppers, and broccoli on the weekend and used them in omelets and pita pizzas. Not too bad for lazy cooking, but I want to do better! Fortunately, I have a new fun cookbook to help me - Georgie's new book Fuel Up. It's full of nutrition advice, even photos of how to stock your refrigerator! And of course there are tons of recipes. I wanted to make something from the book, but didn't feel like doing a lot of prep work or going to the store. After flipping through for a while, near the very end, I found a recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies. The recipe has 4 ingredients and you bake the SIX cookies in the toaster oven. Perfect! It was exactly what I was looking for.
I had peanut butter, but I have an almost-done container of almond butter that needs to get used up pronto, so I decided to try out some Almond Butter Cookies first. They were so easy to make. The flavor was pretty good, but the cookies flattened out - nothing like the picture! (And no, I did not forget the baking powder!) They were more on the crisp side, like sugar cookies. Ken asked me to make them again, and I decided to try it with peanut butter this time - I was determined to make them look like the picture! I guess peanut butter is texturally fluffier or something, because they did puff up and look pretty like the picture in the book. They were a little gooey in the middle, but tasty. One of my favorite qualities of this cookie was that I didn't want to eat a lot of them - they were so rich! What a great little snack to make when you're craving baked goods but don't want to end up eating a lot of junk.
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