Today I made a triple batch of chocolate chip cookies. Baking isn’t always a good idea when you’re on Weight Watchers, but it’s a tremendous test of will power! I have to say that the chocolate chip cookies and I were pretty evenly matched. I ate less than I wanted to, but more than I should have.

I made them for my husband to take to work, using the big KitchenAid mixer my mother-in-law gave me years ago that sits in a cupboard unused most of the year. I thought I had done a triple batch in this mixer bowl before, but as I was attempting to add the 9 cups of flour to the bowl I realized I probably never did quite 3 times the recipe before. I had flour being flung out of the bowl on all sides, flour in the air, flour all over the counter, in my face, on the floor. As the mixer continued  doing its job, the cookie dough expanded, spilling over the sides of the bowl, like some sort of mutant experiment gone wrong. I burst out laughing.

It was a fun and productive way to spend the day. Results? One totally trashed kitchen and 197 cookies. ..well…minus four. But who’s counting?