To cap off the month’s theme of favorites I made jalapeno chocolate chip cookies. This is the department’s hands-down favorite. I mean, I get the appeal. This is the cookie I was going to make last week before I got horribly sick on Thursday. I had already written the week’s selection on the board on Wednesday and then… I did not bake on Thursday. I barely got out of bed.

My stamina remains in the toilet and I have to be careful how much I do.

However, knowing that these are a crowd favorite, I did not want to disappoint a second time. My brain went off this morning at 0619. Again. I don’t think I’ve slept past 0700 since last week. There was also a hospital meeting at 0730 AND the 4th quarter awards at 1030. I did what any other workaholic would do, I got up and mixed the cookies. The first tray went into the oven at 0715. The meeting began and went on. Thank goodness for Zoom. I engaged when I was asked to engage and offered up ideas for the group. The meeting ended at 0815 and the last tray of cookies came out at 0832.

Neat.

However, I noticed that the cookies were not baking up to their usual cookie-ness. They were tender and flat. I think the baking soda is going bad, although I JUST BOUGHT IT in December. At least they tasted the same.

The jalapenos were not very hot at all. I had gotten them for free from a farmer I know back in September. I processed them to freeze them for use in cookies. I did have them come to room temperature before baking.

When I dropped the cookies today and rewrote what the make was on the board, one of the other nurses told me that some people were hot about no cookies last week. Especially, no jalapeno chocolate chip cookies last week.

Oh, well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.