I love cookies. Period. End of sentence. Baking cookies makes me happier than... I don't even know what. Eating cookies that have just come out of the oven is a meal in itself for me. I love cookies.
In Asia, kitchens do not have ovens. They have two to four burner gas ranges. Only the wealthy have gas ovens.
That said, I'm sure you can imagine just how much I've missed cookies while living on this side of the world. Not to mention that they don't really do cookies here like they do at home.
When Jen and Jeff announced that their apartment came with an oven, I was over-joyed. When we decided that we would have a Christmas cookie swap I was beyond excited. We decided that every person who would come would bring a batch of cookie dough and we would spend the afternoon watching Friends re-runs and baking (and eating!!) cookies.
This morning I woke up at an un-godly hour for a Sunday morning thanks to the election trucks outside my apartment (more on that tomorrow). However, it gave me plenty of time to start baking cookies.
At any given time in Canada, I will have all ingredients handy for a batch of chocolate chip cookies. In Korea, it took trips to four different foreign food stores to find all the ingredients necessary. I paid more than $5.00 for a bag of Hershey mini-chocolate chips and about $7.00 for vanilla extract. But what was more ridiculous than that was the process that I went through to make the cookies.
In Asia, kitchens do not have ovens. They have two to four burner gas ranges. Only the wealthy have gas ovens.
That said, I'm sure you can imagine just how much I've missed cookies while living on this side of the world. Not to mention that they don't really do cookies here like they do at home.
When Jen and Jeff announced that their apartment came with an oven, I was over-joyed. When we decided that we would have a Christmas cookie swap I was beyond excited. We decided that every person who would come would bring a batch of cookie dough and we would spend the afternoon watching Friends re-runs and baking (and eating!!) cookies.
This morning I woke up at an un-godly hour for a Sunday morning thanks to the election trucks outside my apartment (more on that tomorrow). However, it gave me plenty of time to start baking cookies.
At any given time in Canada, I will have all ingredients handy for a batch of chocolate chip cookies. In Korea, it took trips to four different foreign food stores to find all the ingredients necessary. I paid more than $5.00 for a bag of Hershey mini-chocolate chips and about $7.00 for vanilla extract. But what was more ridiculous than that was the process that I went through to make the cookies.
Two pots acted as my wet and dry ingredient mixing bowls, a tupperware container was my measuring cup and a Korean-style spoon my mixing spoon.
Although it was a bit of a messy process
The end results (and baking cookies for almost five hours) were more than worth the trouble.
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