Cookies and Candy

I seem to be thinking about sweet things a lot lately. Must be the holidays, huh? Yesterday's post about the wintergreen patties was just the tip of the iceberg.

What do you think about this recipe for Molasses cookies? I don't have any molasses on hand but since I need to make a run to Wal-mart to pick up a prescription for two drugs that my doctor prescribed for me yesterday, I can grab the molasses while I'm there. And look for some wintergreen flavoring too. And since I've already bought the fixings for no bake cookies, it's shaping up to be a very sweet weekend.

In my defense, somehow I managed to lose 5.5 pounds during the 8 days I was wondering around the southeast last week. I can't explain the weight loss since I certainly managed to eat a fair amount of food.

Hmmm. I weighed in at 207 yesterday morning whereas I was 212.5 before I left. Maybe driving burns a lot of calories? That must be why all those long-haul truck drivers are so svelte. LOL

Getting back to the drug thing, I've been having trouble sleeping for a while. Since about 1969, if you want to be specific. And since I tend to avoid doctors I've not done anything about this problem in the pharmaceutical sense. Now that's changed: my doctor is prescribing Ambien to see if it'll help. I've heard about the side effects on the news so I'm curious about how much help---and harm---will result from this experiment. I'm willing to endure some side effects if I can sleep 5 hours or more a night however I don't want to wake up to find myself sleeping in a tree--or worse.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I tend to not like multiple spices in my cookies, so I probably wouldn't like those. But it reminds me that I have a question about parchment paper. I want to use it to line my cookie sheets this year -- I usually use foil. Since I make a lot at a time and rotate three pans, I wondered if you knew (or someone else knows?) whether I can reuse the parchment paper a few times or will I need a new sheet for each tray I do?

I only took Ambien once. I'm drug sensitive and try not to use any, so my experience may just be weird. I didn't wander or anything (but it's my understanding that those symptoms occur after using it for awhile -- kind of a tolerance thing), but I did have vivid dreams and apparently yelled out a lot during the night. I slept though....
6:25 PM
Anonymous said…
I forgot to add.... Melatonin is a good substitute for Ambien. My only side effect was scratchy eyes in the morning.
6:28 PM
Unknown said…
This is similar to a recipe my mom used to make. I'm not a huge fan of molasses cookies, they make my teeth ache - don't know why.

Hope you get some sleep Utenzi, you get grumpy when you're awake too long ;)
10:16 AM
srp said…
I believe my mom puts molasses into her gingerbread cookies... perhaps I should pull up her recipe as it looks as if any cookies served this Christmas will be made by these hands... woe the persons having to eat them!
7:40 PM
Anonymous said…
OMG, all these sweet recipes and photos. Yer killing me over here!

Hey Dave, don't forget to come over to my blog to play the weekend Meet & Greet... I'm now hosting it! :)

Can't wait to see ya by... Have a great weekend.

Tanya!
3:04 PM
Cynnie said…
ambien will make you eat like a cow ..EAT LIKE A DRUGGED COW.

I promise ..you'll wake up with food in your teeth and no memory of how it happened.
3:07 AM
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