culinary creativity

andrew and i splurged on a new cookbook crazy about cookies, we rationalize this purchase by deciding that it wasn't a cookbook cookbook (of which we have plenty), but a cookie cookbook of which we have none! so of course, andrew wanted to try a recipe immediately and decided on the peanut butter cookies. we were worried that we'd be short on the shortening (haha get it?), however the REAL crisis was when we realized we were about a full cup short of PEANUT BUTTER. we had a couple options 1) wait and make them sunday after we'd bought more peanut butter (we'd already measured the dry ingredients), 2) check with steve to see if the huge jar of peanut butter we sent to work with him during snowcropolis was still in his car (negative on that one), 3) see if we still had that jar of nutella in the pantry (a negative on that one too), however what we did have was a jar of dry roasted-lightly salted peanuts- well when life hands you peanuts-you make.....

peanut butter-throw in the nuts, put it on high speed, and once everything is really smushed, add just a drizzle of canola oil so that you don't lose the consistency needed for the cookies.  then you get some pretty awesome cookies, we also threw in a handful of chocolate chips just for kicks and giggles.