Being on cooking crew is more time consuming than I had expected, but it is so much more fun. For lunch today we only made sandwiches and salad, but everyone liked it. For dinner we made pizza. We thought it was going to be a catastrophe because the dough was not wanting to rise (because we may or may not have killed the yeast on accident), but it turned out fine. Everyone loved it, and there were absolutely no leftovers of our 5 huge sheets of pizza.

Working Mama Bear’s taught me at least one very worthwhile skill: how to wash dishes efficiently. We had the dishes clean and sanitized and dried and put away in record time. After which, we made pasta salad and cookie dough for dinner tomorrow night. I was in charge of the cookie dough, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever made (perhaps not because we haven’t baked it yet):


Brown Sugar Cookies
2 cups of brown sugar
2 cups of butter
2 large eggs
6 cups of flour
1 tbsp of vanilla
2 ½ tsp of ground cinnamon
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Bake cookies at 375 for 6 to 8 minutes.


Tonight I was able to Skype with people, which was great. I also downloaded music from iTunes because I was absolutely dying without music. It’s funny how I had to pre-order the U2 album on the iTunes store, but I could buy the actual CD here in Ireland and already have it. So I’ll have to wait for that CD until it is released in the States on Tuesday.