I have promised this recipe to a couple of people, but after a lovely evening last night with Carolyn, Dave and the cookies, I'm finally getting around to posting it. First, though, I have to explain how the recipe came about.

In February, at the time share in New Zealand, I made four or five batches of these cookies. They all tasted quite good, but the consistency wasn't perfect until the end, because I was changing the recipe from using 3/4 cup Crisco to, ultimately, 1/3 cup canola oil. With David's genetic heart problems and the fact that no one needs to be eating Crisco, the change to a "good" fat seemed the way to go. And then, because vegan baking is even healthier, not to mention I was making a batch for Taylor and Megan when they came over for Fourth of July, I decided to substitute rice milk for the milk, and half a banana for the egg. I love that substitution! It's ingenious. You can taste a little banana in the cookies, which I don't think is a problem, but if you do, feel free to use an egg instead. Either way be careful, though: they're really yummy and disappear quickly.

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A month later, we're in the final stages of moving (we hope), and, as such, have taken to following David's prescription, which is to "blitz" rooms. I'm not sure why he uses that word, but whatever, it seems to suit the action, since in blitzing we remove everything from a room. In doing so we find some interesting things, like a grocery recipt from July 13, 1989. Want to know what was purchased? Of course you do!

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Stephen Colbert doesn't need to worry about our having been eaten by bears (if you just want to see the bear section, it starts at the 5:39 mark, although threat number four is hilarious, and the rest are pretty funny, too). And no, despite having posted from Las Vegas weeks ago, and then disappearing, we didn't lose what money we had, so we haven't been hiding in shame. Though possibly that would be better, since at the moment we're both exhausted.

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