Wednesday: Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Sometimes the occasion calls for cookies. Nothing will do but homemade. Here is my adoptive recipe from The New Basics cookbook. We love these so much. Super easy, rave reviews! Let March go out "sweetly" ...

Take out:

1 cup of all purpose flour

1/2 cup of rolled oats

1/2 tsp baking powder

dash of salt

1 stick of sweet butter plus two tablespoons of Spectrum vegetable shortening

6 tablespoons of brown sugar

6 tablespoons of white sugar

tsp. of vanilla

1 large egg

1 cup chopped lindt dark chocolate bar (your choice of flavor but make it dark!)

Heat up the oven to 375F. Grease the baking sheets

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.

Cream the sugar and butter and egg in another. Slowly add this to the flour mixture.

Stir in the chopped chocolate. You can add nuts, but make sure they are chopped well.

Drop onto the sheets 3 inches apart. They spread. Bake for 5 minutes then take out of the oven and rap them on the counter twice and then return to the oven. Bake until they are done. The rapping makes them flatten and cook better. These are pretty yummy. I like to make them small and tea sized so you can eat a bunch and feel less guilty. Crazy huh? Makes about 2 dozen regular sized cookies. You can double this recipe easily.