Our friend Tyler, who is the other assistant for the city of Barentin, came out last week to spend the afternoon with us playing music and baking chocolate chip cookies.
I think that this will be the last batch of chocolate chip cookies I'll be making here in France. The chips come in a tiny little bag for 2.5 euros each. I needed two bags, so the chocolate chips alone in this recipe cost over 6 dollars! I'm really not sure why French people don't like chocolate chips. They're so easy to find and cheap in the US! If you buy a chocolate chip cookie at a bakery here, it's like you're purchasing some exotic product and it's usually over 3 euros each! I suppose I could use only one bag...but I don't see the point in a chocolate chip cookie where the chips are few and far between.
Anyway, these cookies were excellent, despite the fact that it was hard to keep them from burning in our tiny little counter-top oven.
While we waited for the cookies to bake, we played music. (And ate cookies as they came out of the oven.) This week we met again to play music and we now have four people for our group. Maybe we can hit the streets in the spring and make some cash!
Anyway, here are the cookies! That one batch looks pretty burnt, but it actually tasted fine. I took a bag of the nice-looking ones to Anabelle's house for dinner. She is the spanish teacher who invited Mariel and me over last week. Her children loved the cookies!
Umm. Kavsum?
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