i don’t know who the original author is, but Brian passed this along to me from one of his co-workers. we haven’t tried baking them ourselves, but we will!
these “infamous disgusting cookies that look like cats poops (rolled in grape-nuts, which makes lovely fake kitty litter)” comes in 2 flavors: chocolate (dark brown) and gingerbread (light brown).
The author seldom measured carefully, so the amounts may need adjustment, especially on flavoring. The cookies are dense and not very sweet, this is necessary so that they will keep their shape during baking. If you use white flour or sugar, they may be tastier but they won?t look like poop.
Chocolate ingredients:
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1/2 cup honey
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2/3 cup (1 and 1/3 stick) butter, margarine, or lard
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1 egg
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1 tsp vanilla or peppermint extract
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2 cups whole wheat flour
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1/3 cup cocoa powder
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grape-nuts(TM) cereal
Gingerbread ingredients:
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1/4 cup honey
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1/4 cup molasses
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2/3 cup(1 and 1/3 stick) butter or margarine, or lard
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1 egg
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2 and 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
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spices-ginger, cinnamon, cloves to taste (maybe 1/2 tsp each) grape-nuts(TM) cereal
Mix-ins:
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Coconut = tapeworms
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Chocolate chips = poop chunks!
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Butterscotch chips = diarrhea!
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Peanut butter chips = diarrhea!
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Cooked spaghetti or ramen noodles = roundworms
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Peanuts = chunks
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M&Ms = decoration?
To Make:
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Microwave the honey till it bubbles (about 1 minute).
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Add the butter, (I’ve been told using lard makes for a more realistic texture and softer cookie) and the molasses, if any.
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Add the egg, mix well, then mix in all the other stuff.
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Add mix-ins of your choice to some or all of the batter.
- Chill.
- Roll dough logs of random length and the diameter of cat poops.
- Roll logs in grape-nuts and bake at 350 degrees till done (about 20 minutes, but this varies so watch them.)
- Serve in a disposable cat litter box on a bed of grapenuts, with a cat litter scoop. I hear you get lovely effects by decorating the box and scoop with melted chocolate or pudding.
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Brown sugar might work as a substitute for the new clumping litters…
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Mixing brown sugar with the grapenuts "sweetens up the cookie a bit while still looking truly hideous."
see? i practice what i preach (see Chicago Living Tip #31): i pulled in as closely as possible to the cars in front and behind. Brian wouldn’t have tried to park here. OK, i just wanted to show off the awesome parking job i did because i’m usually horrible at parallel parking.
I’d like to thank everyone who’s played so far. I wish I could play too, but since I’m hosting the tournament I can’t. However, I’ve taken some of the quizzes from which the questions are taken, and some of them are so irritating. One asked what species Plo Koon is, and I typed in "Keldor." I got it wrong because it’s actually "Kel Dor." Bah.
Anyhow, I’m hoping to get Paint Shop Pro again soon (my free trial expired) and I’ll create Medals of Yavin for each month’s winners that you can put on your site. I’ll also place a link at the top of this page. So keep playing and tell your friends!
I should have listened to my gut when I thought that Fox wouldn’t air the trailer until the end of “The O.C.” Instead, I sat through the whole show and suffered through the insipid dialogue that was worse, much worse, than the dialogues in Ep. I & II.
But the trailer…oh, man! I cannot wait for this movie to come out. I’ve heard that a camp-out for tickets is happening in D.C. on May 6 or some ridiculously early date like that. Give me a break. It isn’t like there’s only a limited amount of tickets. I’d like to see it on the first day, but if I don’t, I don’t.
So Palpatine whips out a lightsaber in the trailer, but we don’t get to see him use it. We do see Anakin leading an army of…I don’t know…droids? I didn’t tape the trailer, silly me. Lots of explosions! Yay! Padme crying…boo hoo. I always wondered what happened to the Skywalkers’ mom. She isn’t mentioned in the EU, as far as I know, but I’ve only read up to the Thrawn Trilogy.
I also can’t wait to find out how it is that Palpatine manages to hide his Sithness from the entire Council. I mean, come on, this was Yoda in his prime–how could the dark side that clouded be? I’ve managed to remain spoiler-free as far as Ep. III goes, except for what I’ve seen on this trailer and the one on Star Wars.com, so I don’t know if they’ll show Yoda fleeing to Dagobah and Obi-wan holing up on Tatooine.
If I can, I’d like to read Jedi Trial and Labyrinth of Evil before I see the movie, but I just hate hardcover books. They’re so bulky, and they aren’t going to come out in paperback anytime soon. So much to do!
this post is actually in response to a comment Crissy A. left under Ridiculous Weight Gain, Med Change & Lamictal Side Effects. when i began gaining weight, my pdoc didn’t think it was the Lamictal, because it isn’t supposed to cause weight gain. but after gaining 20 lbs. in about three months, he finally took me off of it about three or four weeks ago. i lost 2 lbs. the first two weeks. i don’t have another appointment for another week or so, and i will have a weigh-in then (i haven’t owned a scale in ten years!)
my appetite is much smaller and i haven’t had cravings for peanut M&Ms. i’m convinced (as is my pdoc) that it was caused by the Lamictal. i haven’t lost a lot of weight since i stopped taking it, but i went from consuming 2800 calories one day, down to 1800 the next! we still have a big bag of peanut M&Ms and i haven’t been tempted to eat any. however, i’ve been eating an awful lot of Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, particularly the Cookies ‘n Cream flavor. well, at least they have way fewer calories and fat. the drastic change in my eating habits is kind of weird to see. i’m still keeping track of my food on my FitDay Journal, but i admit that it’s kind of a pain in the ass.
i’m certainly no doctor, but for anyone who gains weight after starting to take Lamictal, it’s worth mentioning to your doctor. however, it doesn’t seem like a lot of people have weight gain as a side effect, which is why my pdoc didn’t think it was the Lamictal at first.
…is how i’ve been feeling lately, which is why i haven’t posted in a while. i’m not manic, but there are so many things that i need to do and i’m having a hard time prioritizing. not only that, i’ve had a lot of trouble concentrating on anything complex, like writing.
i joined the Alchera Project, which is a sort of online writing community. members are required to write something every month on one of the given topics/projects. i know what i want to write about, but i just can’t get myself to sit down and sort everything out. there are too many ideas floating around.
part of me feels that maybe i leaped before i really looked when i signed up for it. however, the reason i did so was to get jump started with writing again, and for discipline. aside from blogging and an attempt at KotOR fanfic, i haven’t written anything since graduation, certainly no poetry. i haven’t submitted anything, either, and it’s been about 4 years now since i last published. my c.v. is looking pretty outdated.
if you ever take the Metra train to the suburbs there are 2 things you should know about purchasing tickets:
- the ticket agents at Union Station do not accept debit or credit cards.
- you can buy a ticket on the train, but it will cost an additional $2 unless the ticket windows are closed (hardly ever)
courtesy of Brian, my blogless husband
edit 9:20pm: J has kindly pointed out that the conductors also do not take debit or credit cards.
fresh laundry must be marked right away.
i just read an article called "Open Season on Cats in Wisconsin?", and i’m distressed. i found the link on the left sidebar under Feed Bowl, which shows RSS feeds for cat-related news items. you can read the article below.
the first time i heard of something like this was in 2003, when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission proposed a policy that would allow the department to trap free-roaming and feral cats on public grounds. the idea was to protect endangered birds. although the policy was adopted, the FWC has issued this document to avoid any misunderstanding: the goal is to protect wildlife, not to eradicate feral cats.
what’s being proposed in Wisconsin, however, is to let hunters shoot feral cats. although i’m not a hunting advocate, i understand the plausibility of a need for deer hunting, in order to control the population and ecosystem. however, the people who back this proposal argue that cats are not wildlife and harm said ecosystem.
it’s this same argument that i would use against them: deer are a part of native wildlife and it’s not uncommon for hunters to eat what they kill. we are, after all, evolved from hunter-gatherers. cats are not considered wildlife, so there’s little doubt that a hunter who caught one would eat it.
feral cats may not naturally belong in the areas of Wisconsin where they are supposedly a problem, but regardless, they are wildlife. they’re wild cats, not domestic cats. it’s a fine line that can be drawn between domestic and feral cats, but they’re still very different. i understand that some feral cats may have once been tame, but because they were abandoned or lost, they have reverted back to a wild state.
the opposition for this proposal has set up a Web site at: http://www.dontshootthecat.com.
at the time the proposal controversy in Florida was going on, i was trying to tame Hee Seop. he was a feral cat who Brian and i discovered on our back porch one day, eating what the trash that the possum we saw earlier that day, left behind. (yes, we have possums and raccoons in the City of Chicago.) Hee Seop has come a long way since then, and yesterday, he climbed in my lap as i sat at the computer. this issue is very personal to me, but i don’t know what i, personally, can do about it.
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pay a visit to the fabulous Miss Maddie’s blog: I Crap in a Box. Maddie is a gorgeous, long-hair calico and believe me when i tell you that she has cattitude, which is why i love her. she lives with her mom and sister Kadi. Miss Maddie also knows what T-R-E-A-T-S spells, so don’t try to fool her!
