Yum.

So no worries, the Hungary pictures are coming. But in the midst of the moving and working... well, they've kind of gotten pushed to the back burner.

But apparently baking hasn't. I came home today and felt the need, no, the compulsion to bake something CHOCOLATY (by the way, did you know that was spelled without an "e"? Because I did not until now. Huh.) So I googled chocolate cookies and found Paula Dean's recipe, tweaked it a bit, and voila! Deliciousness in 15 minutes. Okay, less, because I admittedly ate about as much dough as actual cookie.

Here's how the magic happened:

1 stick + 2 T. butter, softened

3/4 c. sugar

1 egg

1 T vanilla

1 c. flour

1/3 c. cocoa

1/2 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1/4 bag chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg and vanilla. Mix remaining ingredients in a separate bowl. Gradually mix into wet ingredients. Bake at 325 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

On another funny note (okay, maybe not to everyone, but it made me laugh), I was packing up our bookshelf tonight and found a folder of old English papers from college. I looked at one essay test from a comp class (you know the kind where they give you an hour to write 5 pages?), and, in my messy cursive, I had definitely written the following:

".... before the English gente tried to impose colonialism."

Yup. Gente is Spanish for people. Language confusion? I think so. Good job, college freshman Christie.

Amazingly, my English prof did not catch this. I guess sometimes using less-than-perfect handwriting pays off. :-)