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Soft Pumpkin Cookies
2 and 1/2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
1/2 cup of butter (1 stick) softened
1 cup LIBBY'S %100 Pure Pumpkin
1 large egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease baking sheets.
COMBINE flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in medium bowl and set aside.
BEAT sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until well blended.
BEAT in pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract until smooth.
Gradually beat in flour mixture.
Drop onto greases baking sheets.
Bake for 13 minutes or until edges are firm.
Cool for 2 minutes, move to cooling racks.

I've Got My Angry Eyes On

I miss cheese. I just moved from a quiet farm in Connecticut to the city of Chicago. Then again, after India, anything else is quiet. So far, so good. Coming from NYC usually, I am used to crazy traffic, large crowds, busy trains, and loud honking. Chicago has offered nominal traffic, less people, okay trains even at rush hour, and near silent streets. It's a nice middle ground. Grant Park is amazing and I am loving the cycling community. I bought myself a bike. And not just a bike, but a sassy little Schwinn Jaguar. My mother checked it out at Target. She said it looked like Pee Wee Herman's bike. I took that as a complete compliment.

While our new condo is fantastic and so is our new black cat, Tux, I went to the doctor for an annual physical just before I moved. I found out that at 29 years of age, I have high cholesterol. This is shocking to me. I am in pretty good shape and for all 123 lbs. of me, I like to eat. I now live in a city that is famous for it's deep dish pizza! What's a girl to do? For the past three weeks, I haven't had anything with cholesterol in it... until last night. I had turkey kielbasa. Today, I feel tired and gross. Also, I am really hungry. to make things worse, before I moved, I vowed to used my Kitchen Aide Mixer every week. I love to bake. Today I made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. I am frustrated for two reasons. 1- I am tempted to eat all the cookies. 2- They came out terrible. So in a sense I guess I solved my own problem. As for the deep dish- I'll have to get back to you on that one:)