To wrap up my busy week of cooking, I decided to end with a sweet treat! Using regular oats, I made oatmeal raisin cookies. Among all kinds of cookies, these have long been my favorite, minus the heavy calories, of course. But, the cookies I made today have less than half the amount of calories and fat that the regular ones have. I used regular oats, whole-wheat flour, raisins, brown sugar, Splenda, light whipped butter, applesauce, egg whites, vanilla extract, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. With these ingredients there is a mere 125 calories in one LARGE cookie! Compare that to the average 296 calories! These cookies tasted amazing. When I distributed them to my family, I had some requests to make the cookies without the raisins. So, next time I will make a batch of half and half: half with raisins and half without.
Not only have I been deliberately working on my recipes and research, but I have also been busy working on my WISE midterm. For the class, we are required to make a 2.5 minute video that gives an overview of my project. I don't make movies on the computer often so this has been relatively challenging for me. I have been actively trying to figure out the details of how to use the movie maker program. However, after working on it for hours, I think I finally got the hang of how it works. Hopefully the final project turns out well!
For now, I am going to continue working on my video so I can have it ready on time. This weekend I am going to continue brainstorming recipes, specifically finger foods! Stay posted to see what I come up with!
RANDOM FACT: I bet you didn't know that the world's oldest recipe is for beer!
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