Grammie's BlogThursday, May 18, 2006
Cookie Monster Confessional
Me know. Me have problem.
Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn't normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside.
When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can't stand looking in mirror, fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don't think me is monster. Me just furry blue person who love cookies too much. Me no ask for it. Me just born that way.
Me was thinking and me just don't get it. Why is me a monster? No one else called monster on Sesame Street. Well, no one who isn't really monster. Two-Headed Monster have two heads, so he real monster. Herry Monster is strong and look angry, so he probably real monster, too. But is me really monster?
Me thinks me have serious problem. Me thinks me addicted. But since when it acceptable to call addict monster? It affliction. It disease. It burden. But does it make me monster?
How can they be so callous? Me know there something wrong with me, but who in Sesame Street doesn't suffer from mental disease or psychological disorder? They don't call the vampire with math fetish monster, and me pretty sure he undead and drinks blood. No one calls Grover monster, despite frequent delusional episodes and obsessive-compulsive tendencies. And the obnoxious red Grover...oh, what his name? Elmo! Yes, Elmo live all day in imaginary world and no one call him monster. No, they think he cute. And Big Bird! Don't get me started on Big Bird! He unnaturally gigantic talking canary! How is that not monster? Snuffleupagus not supposed to exist, woolly mammoths extinct. His very existence monstrous. Me least like monster. Me maybe have unhealthy obsession, but me no monster.
No. Me wrong. Me too hard on self. Me no have unhealthy obsession. Me love cookies, but it no hurt anyone. Me just enthusiast. Everyone has something they like most, something they get excited about. Why not me? Me perfectly normal. Me like cookies. So what? Cookies delicious. Cookies do not make one monster. Everyone loves cookies.
Me no monster. Me OK guy. Me OK guy who eat cookies.
Who me kidding? Me know me never actually eat cookies. Me only crumble cookies in mouth, but me no swallow. Me can't swallow. Me no have no esophagus. Me no have no trachea. Me only have black fabric throat. Me not supposed to be able to even talk.
Me no eat cookies.
Me destroy cookies.
Me crush cookies.
Me mutilate cookies.
Me make it so no one get cookies.
Everyone right. Me really is cookie monster.
Aren't we all cookie monsters on the inside? Who doesn't love a good cookie?! I know we do in our house! Here are two of our favorites:
This first recipe is one of Jenn's favorites. It came home with her from college...according to her, it is from a friend's mother and the recipe got passed around her "friend group". It's been baked at every alumni get-together she's been to ever since.
Cake Mix Cookies
1 pkg. Cake Mix of your choice (raspberry are VERY good, but you choose from your favorite cake mix!)
2 Eggs
1/3-1/2 Cup Oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Beat eggs
Add oil and cake mix to eggs
Bake at 350 degrees on parchment-covered cookie pans, 12 to a sheet
9 minutes for chewy cookies, 12 minutes for crunchy cookies
Here is a family favorite. Ginger cookies are one of my very favorite cookies. Just recently, I found out that ginger helps your body digest food easier giving this cookie monster another reason to bake some up :)
Ginger Crinkles
2/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
4 Tbs. Molasses
2 Cups Flour, sifted
2 tsp. Baking Soda
1.2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
1 tsp. Ground Ginger
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Beat oil, sugar and egg well
Stir in molasses, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger
Roll into balls and into some granulated sugar
Bake for 10-15 minutes
Grammie ::
11:08 AM ::
3 Comments:
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Me love you story!!!
me love story too!
me LOVE Cookie Monster. Me gets Cookie Monster cake for birthday every year. Me also love cake mix cookies!!!
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