No Flour Cookies, No Rain & This & That

    Good morning Sunday,

       Were you able to see the awesome moon last night?

    Here from the big windows looking out at the lake-the moon was to the far right amongst the tree limbs-but I was able to view it-wonderful. They say we will be able to see it again tonight It was very red.

   I have not made us cookies in a long time-probably since last Christmas time.  On Pinterest I ran into an oatmeal-peanut butter-chocolate chip no flour recipe I mixed up the dough late Saturday and baked them before our 2 pm meal today. I liked the ingredients, natural peanut butter, maple syrup, rolled oats, chocolate chips, a couple eggs and baking powder, vanilla extract.

   In my pantry years ago-at least 15 years ago or so I was into making my own extracts-They turned out sooo good too. I still have two bottles that I haven't used much of since I made those. These are just excellent now from the years of aging. I will start using these up instead of buying vanilla extract. I also found a bottle of lemon extract I had made during that time as well

   I have made something similar to this recipe in the past but this was a much better recipe-flavor and texture. It made 2 and 1/2 dozen cookies-will freeze half of them.

 Here is a link to the recipe

   I think the peanut butter makes them a little shiny. Good texture and I love the maple syrup in these too. Once a year now I buy a gallon of maple syrup from a farm on the east coast-sooo delicious and worth every penny. It is getting pretty pricy now though. Larry likes homemade pancakes with maple syrup for Sunday mornings.

   The weather people said cooler today with rain this morning. We heard lots of very loud thunder and lightening for about 15 minutes around 7 am and then just a couple seconds of sprinkling rain-and then it all just left-sigh so we missed the rain again.

  It is at that point now not worth the water to water my plants any more-but I do water them just enough since they are mostly perennials

On another "this & that"  I am getting too many kindle books this month-I started getting newsletters from Book Bub and also Amazon for Kindle-with too good a deals-or free to pass up-so I need to start deleting those emails before looking at them haha. I have lots of different reading material now to choose from, many new to me authors as well..

  One last "this & that"  How often do you change out your wooden cutting board?  We retired and moved down to Missouri around 25 years ago-and that is when I bought a new wooden cutting board. I had been thinking about changing this one out for a couple of weeks now. I saw an article probably on Instagram about needing to change out wooden boards every couple of years. That article said even though you wash and sanitize with bleach you can't get all the bacteria out of wooden boards.  I am thinking Wow yes I do need to change this out.  

   So I went with bamboo cutting boards-I bought a three pack that was on sale on Amazon so went with that. Didn't make sure about the sizes so the biggest one is smaller than I would have liked the best-but it is working. I read they should be oiled with food grade mineral oil so will need to check into that, and to replace when the bamboo has deep cuts in the board. Sounded easier and  sanitizes better than regular wood--any of you have bamboo kitchen cutting boards??

This is the one I chose  I like them but they are smaller than I thought they would be --largest one is 15 x 10 inches  My other board was twice that size. These will work out ok

Sharing a photo I found online. This is Bagnell Dam on Lake in the Ozarks-that makes the electricity for our area more info here

   Happy new week!