The Castoffs met at Michele’s house – a slightly smaller group than usual, but we were joined by Kerrie, our crocheting librarian (the rest of us librarians knit but we love her anyway). It was a talky bunch this time. We drank a little tea, ate some awesome oatmeal cookies studded with chocolate chips that Michele made. So many of us wanted the recipe that we decided to add it to the blog:
Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/4 cup applesauce
2 Tbsp. butter (no substitutes)
1/3 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or crushed dark chocolate bar
Preheat over to 350 degrees. Beat together applesauce, butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a separate mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir flour mixture into first mixture and mix well. Then stir in oats, followed by the chocolate. Place rounded teaspoons-full 2 inches apart on a baking mat on a cookie sheet, or directly on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Store in an airtight container.
Makes 18 cookies.
They were truly delicious. Please make this recipe and enjoy! Thanks to Michele for the recipe and to Mary for sending it to me.
It took a long time for us to finally get some knitting done. Leslie hasn’t yet decided on a new project, so she was busy looking through all of Michele’s knitting books and magazines.
- Hmmm. So many patterns, so little time.
Leslie also regaled us with the tale of the headboard. Her daughter Sienna (the newlywed) is decorating her house and needed a skinny table, so Leslie repurposed a headboard. She showed us photos on her phone and I must say it looked fabulous. Now we all know why Leslie isn’t knitting. She’s decorating! She is the queen of finding inexpensive or lightly-used items and turning them into wonderful, chic expressions of her creativity.
- Mary needed a visual on the headboard
I know that we were at knitting but nobody was actually knitting here. Mary brought her knitting but it sat on the floor for most of the meeting.
Lo, the finger of the knitter came from above and said, "Knit."
Kerrie brought her crochet project, but spent most of the time telling us about a wonderful contest that she won. She is going to Minneapolis – all expenses paid – to a Creative Women conference that sounds fabulous. I get to stay home and sub for her at the high school, but we are all expecting a full report when she gets back. It isn’t until October, so we’ll have to wait a while. In the meanwhile, she pretended to crochet while we all pretended to knit.
- Cutie the Crocheter
Joan joined us for her (maybe) last Castoffs meeting. She and her husband, Jeff, are returning to Arizona in a week or so. They’ll be HOT down there. Even though we tried to talk her out of it, I know that they are anxious to get home and see how much stuff they can bring up here next spring when they come back to their new Montana house. We’ll miss you, Joan!! Email me a photo of that cute washcloth puppet when it’s finished.
- Joan! Don’t go!
Linda joined us late, she’s still emptying boxes in her new condo. She must be on washcloth 65 by now. Eh, Linda? Didn’t get a good photo of it, so you’ll have to take my word.
Next week we’ll be at Leslie’s house. Some of our wanderers will be back: Marylane from SLC and Dick’s reunion; Francy from seeing her new granddaughter, Grace (Congratulations, Grandma! We can’t wait to see pictures!); Carol from opening her new dance studio (Yay, Carol); Deb from…where are you, Deb?; and Julie from taking her son to college (free at last, free at last!). Unfortunately, I’ll be in Wyoming and will miss the show. Wahhh! But I’ll see you all in two weeks. In the meantime, keep those needles blazing. I’ll leave you with a quote from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (The Yarn Harlot) and her book, “At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much.”
“I will remember that no one has ever been killed or maimed by being adventurous with knitting, no matter how pointy the needles.”
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