When it rains here, it hails. It’s mid-June and hailing. You’re in the car five miles from home and it starts hailing. At Home Depot today, where Jim ran in for a quick item, I pulled under the contractor’s shelter. And we only have a one-car garage and there’s no-where to park the older car until they open up the mall right up the street. It hasn’t yet been golf-ball-sized hail, thank goodness. Strange weather in the mountains!
Over the weekend I read the regular Chowhound.com column that’s emailed to me and found what might be my mother’s favorite oatmeal-raisin cookie recipe. Straight from the back from a box of Quaker Oats. I tried years ago to find it. These are tall, tiny cookies with a lot of chewiness to them. Yum. I was set to try it out today but ran out of time. So I’m no baker but I’ll give it a shot, if only to share with you and my siblings.
It’s hailing again. Now the sun is trying to come out. Strangeness.
I found some reasonably priced baby back ribs for tonight, used a dry rub and baked them for over an hour. Hopefully when the rain/hail stops we’ll be able to finish them on the grill. They’ll go with fries as I don’t think I’ve enough sliced, parboiled baby red potatoes for dinner. Snap peas for the veg, probably cold.
Hope you had a great weekend! Enjoy what little is left. Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
When I went through my oatmeal cookie phase, I really liked it with pumpkin pie spice added! 2-3 tsp? Can’t remember. But now I’m in my shortbread phase…
My mother’s apple shortbreads were taken on by my sisters and I’ll try to get you the recipe. Love shortbreads as part of our families are Brit, Scot, Irish and they love their biscuits!
I just have to try this one as it was our favorite, and so I need to check this one out. Also Jim’s been touting my blog to his co-workers, whom I’ve yet to meet. They want food…. Dee