Decided to treat myself to some chocolate chip cookie dough for lunch. From scratch.

I use the standard recipe for Tollhouse cookies found on the Hershey's semi-sweet chip bags. Don't have any handy, so had to do it by memory, but that's okay.

Except you want to leave out two ingredients. And put back in one ingredient that they dropped from the recipe about 20 years ago.

Wife says that one ingredient doesn't make any difference, but she's wrong.

Wife also always tells me to crack my eggs into a separate container, instead of the mixing bowl full of margarine and sugar. I rarely do. But today I did. The second egg came out an orange mishmash, not yolk and white. And smelled a little strange (but not necessarily bad). But Salmonella being Salmonella, the orange egg and its partner went down the drain. And I tried again.

So her advice was correct. Usually is. Rare that I listen to it, so today must be a good day.

For those of you who regularly use and talk about your culinary talents (Deb, Trin, Jo, Lisa, and any others out there), I have a question:

Why the heck does white sugar absorb moisture from the air and become hard as rock, while brown sugar in the very same room loses moisture and still also turns hard as rock? This has got to be some sort of violation of one of the laws of thermodynamics.

I mean, I can see having a leak in the brown sugar bag and finding that dried out and hard. Happens all the time, and can be partially corrected with two minutes (we have a weak-AMPed microwave) in the microwave with a bowl of water. But that being the case, the white sugar should be just as dried out, and perfectly powdered. But no, they were both hard as rock.

Finally opened the five pound bag of Ghirardelli chips for this batch. Like the chips straight, but Hershey's semi-sweet are better in cookie dough.

Anyway, that was lunch. Stomach is just starting to register complaints. And in about two hours, youngest son and I go get the masked heeler. (Should have been able to get her home at lunch, but her "chart" still wasn't done! She's stayed there almost 24 extra hours waiting on paperwork! What is this? A hospital?)