Crispy Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

Date: July 26, 2007
   
     
      OK - I am bad on a diet - I tried and tried and could not get my silly self out of the kitchen unless I baked something! Too many years as a working Mom who still baked bread and cookies and stuffed a mean turkey.
     
      2 cups Quick cooking Oatmeal - McCann's Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal -
      hunt for it at Trader Joe's for one.
     
      1/2 cup light brown sugar ----- except - I use the Splenda Brown sugar substitute - 1/2 the sugar
     
      1 egg - use an Omega 3 egg
     
      3 tablespoons vegetable or Canola - use Canola
     
      2 tablespoons Maple Syrup - use sugar-reduced like Atkins
     
      375 - temp
     
      Mix and let sit for 15 minutes (for oats to absorb moisture). Try to keep you fingers out of the dough.

      Drop teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet (use PAM spray on a non-stick - which comes in olive oil now and well as butter flavor)
     
      Cook 10-15 minutes - let sit - then take off pan with a pancake turner.
     
      They will harden as they cool.
     
      Lacy - chewy - good - not bad for you either.
     
      Now --- I am a bad girl and stick in raisins and walnuts - you can add what you like (some of the new 75% and higher dark chocolate semisweet bits for example).
     
      Thanks! The recent word is that walnuts are better than olive oil for relaxing arteries and improving cardiovascular disease. So it's not "bad" to put the nuts in the cookies!
     
      Or to eat them by the handful????
      I am slogging the web page update for FabioIFC - at home in Fremont - and NO DSL UNIT - they never delivered.
      I hate AT&T. (Turns out - they LOST THE ORDER.)
      Good grief!
      What a time for my DSL to go down! Fabio and Eric are sending these HUGE files to me. At least I can grab them at the office and download there and toss them onto a USB unit and carry them home. 13 years I have done the Fabio fan site and they take THIS MOMENT to decide it should look different and oh, by the way, HERE! But it is looking FABULOUS inspite of the hardship - give me a technical problem and I WILL solve it or find a work-around. I am a problem-solver. (Take a look. http://www.FabioIFC.com.)

      I lose a modem a year. Pain in the butt.