Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Cookies

I cannot believe this recipe. It's the regular Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe from the package of chocolate chips, and it's says that it makes 5 dozen cookies. I have no idea how anyone, anywhere could possibly squeeze more than two dozen out of one batch, much less FIVE. I'm halfway through the dough now and I've made, oh, 16. I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that I have nothing too heavy to complain about today, just a bunch of little complaints that peck at me constantly, and so to relieve the mini-burden that is those peckers, I shall just unleash them upon you.

It took me 20, TWENTY, minutes to find Silom on a satellite view of Bangkok. I honestly suck at looking at maps of Bangkok, there's just so much shit going on, and obvious I hardly ever see Bangkok in an aerial view when I'm there, so all I really had to go by was the RBSC and Lumphini park. Well that didn't help at all, and when I finally went on google search and found a drawn map of greater Bangkok, I realised I was in the wrong bend of the Chao Phraya and way too fucking north to anywhere near Silom. So I corrected, found the street, zoomed in and found my house. All for the sake of geo-tagging my flickr photos of Millie and Trillie.

So I've been geo-tagging my photos, totally ignoring the cookies (I'm surprised I haven't burnt any yet), the oven's still going but the cookies are out. I just can't believe how sucked into things I get when I'm into them, nothing else matters, I'm so over cookie baking right now. It just surprises me when I realise I'm trying to do multiple things at once, because anyone who knows me well enough knows my "open mouth stare". The biggest and most contraversial case is when I'm talking to you on the phone, and there some other stimulus going on where I am. Be it the television, the cat, a shiny object, I will, without fail, completely ignore anything you are saying to me, whether you're speaking softly or yelling, I won't hear a word unti I snap out of it.

I just geo-tagged some of my photos on flickr, there's a map, you find locations, drag and drop your photos onto locations, and so when you view the photo and it says on the side "Take in San Francisco, CA" you can click on the "map" link and it'll show you exactly where in SF I took the photo. I don't think I have the energy or mental capabilities to tackle the Hawai'i set yet, especially not with this cookie baking going on.

I just finished the last batch, scraped the last of the dough from the bowl with a spatula and sent them into the oven, when done, I will have a total of 27 (plus 1 eated) cookies. That is not even 2.5 dozen. I don't know how these Tollhouse crazies make their cookies, but I'm pretty sure people eat four at a time because they're so damn tiny. Eugh, makes me want to quit making drop cookies because the dough is so stupidly sticky, at least with a shaped cookie I know how thick it's going to be, I can make them smaller or bigger. With a drop cookie recipe I can either make a big sticky lump or a small sticky lump.

Enough complaining, I'm going to watch Care Bears on YouTube again.

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