{"id":11706,"date":"2021-03-19T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:26:55","slug":"making-messes-with-mick-blogs-about-making-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/03\/19\/making-messes-with-mick-blogs-about-making-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Messes With Mick; Blogs About Making Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Hey guys! I was in the lab, talking to Mr. Patrick, our outstanding technology coordinator because he&#8217;s always in here. And we were talking about how I&#8217;m terrible at writing blogs. And he was like, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you write about your baking?&#8221; Because everyone knows I like to make food. So, I am starting a blog series about making food. It&#8217;s going to take effort on my part because as of the moment I will have to go by asking my sister (who is a better food creator than me) because I didn&#8217;t bring recipes to school. Now, let&#8217;s get started.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week&#8217;s recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>I recently made these for some classmates of mine. It was one forty-three a.m when I pulled the last baking sheet out of the oven. Anyway, back to the food.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>1 cup of butter, softened<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 tsp. (teaspoon) pure peppermint extract (there&#8217;s a difference between pure and imitation trust me)<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups all-purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp. baking soda<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 tsp. baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. salt<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups mint chocolate chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Honestly, the longest part about this is getting the ingredients out. At least for me, it is.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Preheat oven to 325 degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Mix the butter, sugars, and eggs and beat until combined and creamy. Then stir in the peppermint extract.<\/li>\n<li>Add in the remaining ingredients and stir until well combined.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the chocolates. Then, using spoons (I prefer teaspoons), drop batter onto an ungreased baking sheet and flatten slightly.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 8-12 minutes (depending on how large your little drops of batter are) until golden brown. Cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then move the cookies (using a spatula) to a wire rack to cool completely.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>The funny thing about this recipe is that when I baked the cookies for some classmates, I also baked some for one of my favorite staff members, Mr. Benney. I gave him his cookies and the next day when I saw him, he had the biggest smile on his face and rubbed his belly. So now, every time I see him, he does the same thing. It trips me out every time. Now, I&#8217;m not going to lie, this was a new recipe that I stumbled upon. I usually use a different recipe but I couldn&#8217;t find it. I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of how the cookies, but I have been told by several people that they were good. So, time to play cookie roulette.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys! I was in the lab, talking to Mr. Patrick, our outstanding technology coordinator because he&#8217;s always in here. And we were talking about how I&#8217;m terrible at writing blogs. And he was like, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you write about your baking?&#8221; Because everyone knows I like to make food. So, I am starting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/03\/19\/making-messes-with-mick-blogs-about-making-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Messes With Mick; Blogs About Making Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11747,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions\/11747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}