Feeling Snappy

For all of you who rejected my whale picture, who tried to make me feel guilty for not posting a "real" picture ......

I ask you? Why do you want this picture so much??? Have you pondered this question in your heart?

You want to find inner glee at how big I am, ....don't you??? You might as well admit it. Because I already know the truth.

So I am delaying. I'm thinking a candid on-the-way-to-the-hospital picture.
I'll probably be in my PJ's, hair uncombed, crumbs on my shirt. (A person drops a lot of crumbs when they have to sit three feet away from the table because their belly is so big. Good thing I have my daddy's long arms ...we'll not HIS arms.) Anyway more glee for you.

Speaking of snappy. Yes, I am snappy these days.

Gingersnaps. I don't like 'em

I love them.

Well not really, I bite into them and think, "ick" too strong, not good. blehk!, But a few second later I want another one, so I eat another one, and another one and another one. Until all I want and have ever wanted is gingersnaps.

It's the strangest phenomenon.

I wonder if it's related to the chocolate ice-cream phenomenon.

Once when we lived in Logan, Barry brought me home some ice-cream as a surprise. It was chocolate, as a rule, chocolate ice cream is not my favorite, but being ice-cream deprived I ate a bowl of it.

Surprisingly finding it quite delicious, I ate another bowl of it.

Later that night Barry had some, and I finished off the carton the next day.

That next evening Barry asked me what I wanted to do for our date (see, this was a long time ago, we still went on dates).

I told him all I wanted was to get some more of that ice cream. He laughed at me, but he agreed and went and purchased two more cartons. I was halfway through the first carton, when Barry(gggrrr)happened to look at the ingredients. Third ingredient Instant Coffee.

Oh so sad. I finished off the carton, and promised to eat no more of it, but I have dreamed of it, and I can tell you, if the craving for a cup of coffee is anything like the craving for coffee ice-cream, those people have a tough habit to break.

ON to better things....

You want to make gingersnaps now don't you??? No?... you want some of that ice cream. MMmmm me too, but we can't.

So you'll have to settle for these.



Grandma's Gingersnap cookies.

Yes, you'll like them strangely, you won't be able to stop eating them ravenously, you'll get fat, ironically, you'll look like a whale fittingly..........and then I'll request a picture gleefully.

Ahh the power of suggestion.

(Mmm yum, don't forget to buy the molasses, if that's not something you keep around the house)



Grandma's Gingersnap Cookies
Original Recipe Yield 5 dozen

Ingredients

* 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon ground ginger
* 2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 3 cups of instant coffee
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 cup shortening
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1 egg
* 1/4 cup dark molasses
* 1/3 cup cinnamon sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Sift the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt into a mixing bowl. Stir the mixture to blend evenly, and sift a second time into another bowl.
3. Place the shortening into a mixing bowl and beat until creamy. Gradually beat in the white sugar. Beat in the egg, and dark molasses. Sift 1/3 of the flour mixture into the shortening mixture; stir to thoroughly blend. Sift in the remaining flour mixture, and mix together until a soft dough forms. Pinch off small amounts of dough and roll into 1 inch diameter balls between your hands. Roll each ball in cinnamon sugar, and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
4. Bake in preheated oven until the tops are rounded and slightly cracked, about 10 minutes. Cool cookies on a wire rack. Store in an air tight container

For added blubber, dip in melted white chocolate or cream cheese pumpkin dip.