Cookies!

So while us Americans dream of the perfect pain au chocolat, the bread, or the croissants. The French dream of American chocolate chip cookies. They can't make them here, they don't have the right ingredients, but us Americans got some pretty tasty cookies out of experimentation today. First thing the French don't have is brown sugar. Such a strange concept right? Well our brown sugar is made with molasses, they don't have molasses here, although they do have caramelized sugar here (it looks brown) so we ended up using that. then they don't have baking powder here, they do have baking soda (but they call it bicarbonate). Finally the metric system is hard to convert into our system, so things were just kind thrown into a bowl, the batter tasted and the ingredients adjusted according to the taste. We first made a traditional crunchy chocolate chip cookies. After running out of brown sugar we substituted creamed honey for the brown sugar and made cakey sugar cookies that were delicious. After sitting around for several hours, baking, eating, listening to Christmas music, I started to really miss the holidays in Michigan, where it actually gets cold. But alas, I will be in France for Christmas and Thanksgiving. Apparently the program will give us a "Thanksgiving dinner" on Thanksgiving, at a restaurant. Although I am told not to get my hopes up and that it's no where near as good as at home. Alas, I will have to wait till next year to make another delicious Thanksgiving dinner with my boyfriend!
Peace, Love, and Missing Mashed Potatoes