Hi All,
I actually overslept this morning! I was up at 5 to let Mabel out and then went back to bed and fell sound asleep with some very strange dreams. HA!
The knee X-ray was quick yesterday. I arrived at the facility around 8:30 when registration opens...went in...registered...went upstairs for the X-ray and was out of there around 8:50! My doctor should have the results by sometime Monday.
Look who showed up the other day!
Two sweet fawns. One resting and the other nosing around looking for apples. The mother doe was also there - just not in the picture. As soon as she started moving into our neighbor's yard, the resting fawn got up and trotted after her.
I tried a new recipe for cookies. No flour, no eggs, no white or brown sugar! They are chickpea peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips.
Just one can of drained and rinsed chickpeas smooshed up in the food processor. Then you add 1 cup of peanut butter, 1/3 cup of maple syrup, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of vanilla. Mix all then fold in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. The dough is very wet and sticky. I used an ice cream scoop to get them onto the baking sheet. They only need about 10 minutes at 350. They don't look like much, but I think they taste good. Fletch says they could be sweeter (naturally) and he would like them crispy. So, this batch is going over to Colin & Mailing today. Hopefully Iris will enjoy them!
Any big plans for the weekend? None for me other than dinner at C&M's on Sunday. I'll be taking homemade vanilla ice cream to go with the flourless chocolate cake Colin is baking! YUM.
I am making ice cream today as well! I hope Iris likes those cookies! (And a huge buck visited us last night... he was very interested in the hummingbird feeders on our patio!)
ReplyDeleteYou and your family do make sure you eat well! I'm not entirely sure about chickpea cookies but the homemade vanilla ice cream and flourless chocolate cake sound delicious. I hope you have a terrific weekend!
ReplyDeleteWe have had two tiny fawns in the yard this week which is odd for this late in the year. Daughter and the oldest Grand have celiacs so SIL makes that flourless cake for them for most family gatherings and it is so good. I'd make one myself but I'm afraid I'd eat the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteThose cookies sound interesting! I'm glad your knee is feeling better, but it'll be nice to get the doc's read on the situation. I am SO looking forward to the 6-week follow-up w/my hip doc on Monday... that will also include a new xray.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had slept in this morning -- I woke up at 4:20 and snoozed for a while until Ruthie started barking around 5:30. Maybe I'll get a cat nap later. Those cookies sound good (but I also love chickpeas). I have a feeling the rest of my family wouldn't even try them, though, which means I'd end up eating all of them. Have a lovely weekend and enjoy all those tasty treats!
ReplyDeleteThose cookies look really good and we like chickpeas so I'll have to give them a try sometime.
ReplyDeleteWe're packing things a little at a time for our trip west. I put things into our purple rubbermaid camping bin as I think of them. Then Dennis takes it to the storage unit where the camper is kept. He always has something he wants to do to the trailer so it all works out. It would be so much easier to have the camper closer but we've never had a house that had parking for a camper so I guess we're used to it.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
The deer are so sweet!
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful to see the doe and her fawns! The cookies sound mostly good! lol
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet photo of those fawns. I've only seen deer in our yard a few times in the 30 years I've lived here and it's only been full grown ones. I don't know about those cookies, Vera! LOL
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