Heat Wave

Running when it’s hot hot hot out is pretty low on my ‘best part of the day list.’ Therefore, the 1.9 miles I ran this morning. and the single mile I ran yesterday. I’m going to have to go back to the 5:30am runs.

So something more fun: cookies! From a while ago, back when I could still turn on my oven.

After spending a good hour looking for oatmeal cookies without too much butter, Lorne and I started with this recipe from Cooking Light, using the basic recipe for oatmeal cookies and skipping the cranberries. Then we added raisins to half, and TCHO chocolate chunks to half, and voila, healthy-ish cookies.

Today’s goal: find some strategies for running in 90 degree weather!

Healthy Cookies (Exclamation Mark!)

Sunday was coooold (I ran for a total of 11 minutes before I was convinced my face was going to become a victim of frostbite!) and snowy… the perfect type of afternoon for baking. I found these cookies on Heidi Swanson’s wonderful site, 101 Cookbooks, and decided to go vegan-style.

These use bananas, almond meal, oats, and coconut oil for the base—no eggs, butter, flour, or vegetable oil. I ground blanched almonds with an immersion blender (no food processor in this small kitchen!), but they were still pretty big bits. Didn’t seem to be a problem at all. The cookies that baked the longest (15-16 minutes) also held together the best.

These are moist, slightly sweet, and just virtuous enough that you can have another one… or two. Tammy and I devoured the first batch out of the oven (it was cold! snowy! Sunday afternoon!).

The rest are now bundled up and on their way to my boyfriend, Lorne. He was in a tiny car accident and is hanging out at home in Idaho until he’s better… so the plan is for the healthy cookies to make everything better.