Sunday, March 4, 2012

blogging with a guilty conscience

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What's on your desk right now? Wait, no. Be honest. I'll be honest. I have two laptops. A package of Trader Joe's unsulfured, sweetened, dried mango. A cup of cold date tea. An Inception DVD. Six historical books, focusing on either a) Irish secret societies b) machine politics or c) the Irish exodus. Not a single pleasure read on my desk. They're all chilling just a few feet a way. I can hear them whisper (or maybe it's my lack of sleep talking to me), "Nicole, hey, Nicole. Put down that boring book. And pick me up. Crack open my spine! I can still crack! You didn't finish me yet." The Picture of Dorian Gray says those words. He's needy.

And I need sleep. And cookies. This week is going to be nuts. Nuts, as in, no-time-to-breath, nuts. Not I-met-a-cute-boy-and-we're-hanging-out nuts. Or I'm-baking-cookies-all-week nuts. Or walnuts, pistachio nuts, and peanuts. No, as in, back-to-back-semi/very-scholarly-events. Superb.

I still have work to do, guys. And yet. I'm blogging. Okay, moving on. (My conscience is catching up to me! This post will be short.)

Cookies

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with Nutella,

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with semisweet chocolate chips,

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and smeared with more Nutella.

Um, do you need anything else when a chocolate craving hits? I don't! Have a splendid week! Recipe here. No real notes today. I followed the recipe word for word and I baked them a tad longer because my cookies were bigger.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, I do this all the time. I blog when I should really be studying or doing homework... In fact I'm doing it right now. But, these cookies are definitely worth it. They look heavenly!

    What I have on my desk right now: a lot, lot, lot of books, about 5 different textbooks, notebooks, binders, and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Are you talking about the Picture of Dorian Gray? Is it good? It's been on my want-to-read-list for forever now.

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    1. They were; nutella is one of my weaknesses. Tolstoy?! School assignment or pleasure read? I heard that book is innnntense. Yes, I am! It's my on-and-off pleasure read since September. It's on my shelf, just begging to be finished. Hopefully, I finish it by this weekend so I can cross it off my book list.

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  2. Love that you topped these cookies with Nutella and pistachios - what a great combination of flavors! They look so delicious. Going to check out the recipe now!

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