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That's the way the cookie crumbles
August 13, 2008
I'm currently on a dairy free diet. I love milk and cheese, but the baby had just awful gas when I had dairy. The toddler was this way too when he was little, so I've done this before. While I don't really like it, I know that it's just for a few months, and I know that I can do this. It's really hard though, and it reminds me how difficult life must be for people who are truly allergic to milk. No milk chocolate, no cake unless I made both the cake and the frosting with soy milk, no pancakes for breakfast. You get the idea.
I'm finding that I have the need to spoil myself with food in other ways. I know that I should still be on my healthy, sugar-free diet, but I just need something to make up for the lack of pizza and grilled cheese in my life.So I'm baking. A lot.
While I can substitute soy milk in some recipes, I've found that it just isn't the same, and I prefer to just make things that don't have milk in them to begin with. In my quest to find dairy free treats, I'm digging out recipes that I haven't made in a long time. This is one of them; it's the Chocolate Crinkle cookies my mom used to make. I don't know why I almost never make them; they were my favorite growing up. I even remember drawing a picture of them with a white crayon on brown paper for my grandparents the last time they came to visit us when I was about 5.
I'll post the recipe in the near future. It's been one of those crazy days where things just didn't go as planned. I started this post at 7 this morning; it's now just after 10 pm.
Just in case you're wondering, I am knitting. Remember this? I didn't get it finished in time for Christmas last year! Now, I'm most of the way through the first sleeve. And it looks like it might be a perfect fit for the toddler this year. It will still take me a bit to finish it; there's quite a bit of seaming and a neck band to knit, but I'm certain I can get it finished in time for colder weather.