Recipe - Famous Amos Hawaiian Nut Cookie

This is one good chocolate chip cookie recipe! Don't know whether
it is really the famous amos recipe, but I've tried it and it is really very
good. Try it, will definitely turn out well. This recipe makes loads and loads.

Recipe may be halved:

2 cups butter

4 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

2 cups granulated sugar

2 cups brown sugar

5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal &

blend in blender to a fine

powder)

24 oz. chocolate chips

1 tsp. salt

1 8 oz. Cadbury bar (grated)

4 eggs

2 tsp. baking powder

3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

2 tsp. vanilla

Method :

Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together

with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate

chips,

Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a

cookie sheet..Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112

cookies..

Points to note:

Do get the Hersheys Choc Chips, they are more chocolatey and sinful!

You need 2 packets for this recipe.

Also get the Hersheys Choc Bars - yum! yum! I just smashed them up

and tossed them in the first time I tried this recipe. The 2nd time, I

actually melted the Chocolate Bar.

The 1st method would give you choc chunk surprises when you bite into

your chocolate chip cookie which is lovely but the 2nd method would

give you a darker shade of brown cookie. Depending on your preference,

really. My hubby loves the 1st chunky bits of choc all smashed up method.

Perhaps you can combine.

Me, I am a no nut choc chip person, so you won't find any nuts in

my chocolate chip cookie!

the datin diaries episode 1

yes i have something to look forward to nowadys. it all started from the new tv series that just started on tv3, last Tuesday (6th) at 11p.m. just in case you are wondering what the hey am I on about ok, this is actually a new mini series kinda thing. I never was a fan for any Samrinda or Sembilu Kasih that is on our local channels all this while but somehow this is kinda interesting... at least I thought it was enough for me to actually stay up till 11 to catch the 1st episode.

anyhow... here's an excerpt of the show from a media web posting that I came across regarding the stars in the show ....

Datin Diaries dibintangi oleh lebih 26 pelakon-pelakon handalan seperti Azean Irdawaty, Rita Rudaini, Nasha Aziz, Fazura, Jalaluddin Hassan, Fahrin Ahmad, Ahmad Tarmimi Saregar dan Zulhuzaimy.

Turut berlakon di dalam drama ini ialah Ako Mustafa, Elly Suriati, Catriona Ross, Rosnah Mat Aris, Yasmin Hamid, Zek Zaidi dan Linda Onn.

Teraju utama drama ini dibawa oleh pelakon veteran Azean Irdawaty sebagai Datin Mary, yang merupakan pengerusi Kelab Datin dan adalah seorang 'datin' yang paling berpengaruh. Drama ini turut diwarnai dengan watak Datin Molly (Rita Rudaini), Datin Sally (Nasha Aziz) dan Datin Nelly (Fazura) yang menghadapi masalah rumahtangga masing-masing.

so it is a reall ALL STAR cast drama .... how can I not watch it???

Episode 1: quite interesting ... enuff for me to go back to the office the next day and asked if any of the girls at the office caught it the night before. nobody bothered to stay up. alaaaaaaaa borringnya now cannot gossip about the show.... after yours truly hear gave them a somewhat detailed summary (what rubbish) mmmm okaylah I told them every little detail that I could remember (downright to the fact that Azean's lips looked oh so pouty and plump)

enuff about datin diaries the drama... what you should take not here is that there is in fact a datin diaries, the blog!!!! uhuh! no kidding! nothing to do with the drama! or perhaps the blog led to the drama... can't tell right away. must wait and watch the whole 26 episodes of the drama and compare it with this anonymous datin's blog. I tell you this blog is bloody addictive. I must say whoever this datin is, no matter what type of person she is and what type of crazy or not (damn far more interesting life though) life she may be leading.... one thing for sure is that she is a one damn good writer!!!! if a publisher were to publish a novel based on her blog bet it would be a best seller in Kinokuniya for months!!!!

does this work

trying an alternative way to update my blog.... what have I been up to lately nothing much.... went to Ikea last Sunday... needed a tv cabinet for our bedroom got a disposed tv from surprise!surprise! mom's house... we got one now what we need next is a 2nd astro decoder for that tv. how can a free thing costs us so much additional extras in the end ..... well! well! so much for freebies huh! attached is Zarif's pic fast asleep in the shopping cart post Ikea.

Back from the dead

I can't believe that I actually managed to make my way back here. Upon checking my last entry was ... what??? June 2006??? So I was right after all, in one of out a total of 6 pathetic postings, I did say that I was starting 2 new things last early last year which were:

1) Blogging
&
2) Exercising

and I did say something about that I cannot expect that I would be following through both new things... so I am well kinda glad to say that phew, at least I followed through item 2.

So what's up since June 2006 .....

soooo many things.. will have to cut and paste my 2006 outlook calendar huh!!

School Holiday

The school holiday is back! Never thought that I would be one of those parents who'd be concerned when it comes. However, I HAVE become those parents! I have been harping my hubby to make the necessary "early" arrangements of getting hotel rooms before they are all fully booked everywhere weeks before the starting of the holidays. Malaysians really take the campaign of "Cuti-cuti Malaysia" full-heartedly nowadays. Which is good really, I'm not complaining. I am all for these holidays!

It's good to be away from your normal weekly routine of going to work, come back from work, cook dinner, look forward to weekend, wasted the weekend or spend too much time clearing your weekend to-do list that you just panic when you realised that it was already 22:00 hrs Sunday night and you realised you did not get a chance to put your feet up to finish that chic-lit or the latest Korean DVD series that have been loaned to you. Before you know it the whole routine starts again in less than 9 hours time!

We decided Penang again this hols. The main reason I chose Penang was beacause I wanted to go to the Night Market in Ferringhi beach again, I regretted that during my last visit, about 1+ year back, I did not buy the Hermes bag there it was only RM100!! So I thought I would get it this time. Plus, give my kids Sand, Sea and Chlorined Swimming Pool, they'll be happy anywhere we go. Not to mention staying in A Hotel. Yeah, just like I was at their age.

Stayed at a hotel in Tanjung Bungah, just a note, don't worry about which hotel. You do not need to know. Do not evvvah bother to stay at any hotels in Tanjung Bungah if you are staying in Penang. Stick to Batu Ferringhi. The beach is sooo much better. The one where we stayed at was sad really really sad. My kids, fortunately had a whale of a time. Thank goodness! It was all about them having fun really. Something diffferent to do other than being couped up in our tiny apartment watching Playhouse Disney Channel and Cartoon Network all day long.

On the way to Penang we stopped at the Taiping Zoo and on the way back The Lost World of Tambun in Ipoh. Word of advice, Taiping Zoo is worth the trip if you are totally okay with walking in the hot hot sun for long hours. We just did the train ride, that took about 30 odd mins. Said a breif hello again to the elephants & parrots and spent sometime at the playground. Yes, I did say playground AT THE ZOO in TAIPING!!! All the way to play at the playground!! But really the attitude to be in when you are there is just to marvel at everything that you don't get to see when you're at thome. Just go through it. Kids love animals, really it is just not for us! Nothing that we cannot see in Animal Planet in the comfort of our home.