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Comfort food anyone?? I baked Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies today. I've been baking these babies since I don't remember. But the last time I did .... I couldn't either! Anyway, here's the recipe: 2 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour (sifted) 1Tsp. Salt 1 Tsp. Baking Soda 1 Cup Butter (2 Sticks) 2 Large  Eggs 3/4 Brown Sugar 3/4 White Sugar 1 Tsp. Vanila Extract 2 Cups Chocolate Chip Morsels (Nestle Semi- Sweet / Hershey's Milk Chocolate Morsels) 1. Mix Flour, Salt and Baking Soda (sifted) in one bowl 2. On a separate bowl mash melted butter, brown sugar, white sugar 3. Add eggs one at a time on butter mix til all ingredients are all mixed well 4. Mix the dry ingredients with the creamy mixture gradually 5. Add 2 Cups of Chocolate Morsels 6. Refrigerate for an hour or two 7. Heat up the oven to 375 deg. Fahrenheit / 190 deg. Celsius 8. Place drop of rounded tablespoon of cookie mix on a flat pan with 2 inches space apart 9. Bake cookies in 10-12 Minu...

I apologize for the lack of posts. Been very busy since I reported back to work after my life episode and Chief's father was with us, he flew in from Italy for a few days and our schedule was so hectic. Finally, a peaceful weekend of just Chief and myself. We bummed at home and did a marathon of old black and white sci-fi movies. Chief's addicted to sci-fi movies specially the old ones, you should see our DVD library.. we've got hard to find movies dating early 1900's! He introduced me to sci-fi movie genre. Of course bumming made us hungry and I thought of making some Chicken Pie. I've wanted to try to make it for a long time.. years I may say.. and finally did it! So we went to get some stuff at the grocery and I started baking. My ingredients were all simple, specially the filling. I made a creamy chicken filling with potatoes, carrots and raisins.   Sauteed the chicken in onions, added the vegetables, raisins,  chicken broth, a little bit of ...

One of myfrustrations about living in Dubai is eating good food (Actually, Chief and I). We always go out on Thursdays to unwind after a longweek of hard work and of course, to have good food. We get disappointed most of the time so we end up making food we want to eat at home which is actually too much hassle and work. Then there's this one weekend that really made us feel like Harold and Kumar from the movie Harold& Kumar goes to White Castle. Our Elevation Burger Experience. I was browsing through Cobone  when I saw the deal for Elevation Burger . The picture looks enticing.We've been disappointed by all fast food burgers in this country--name it alland we've tried it---and every time we have the craving, we give in to McDonald's (though Mc Donald's from other country tasted better--) I showed the deal toChief because I wanted to get the coupons for it. Of course he said NO andsaid, why beat the rush of getting the coupons when we can go there when wewant...

Was if fun? Did we have a good time? Of Course YES! Met up with Jasmine and Rachel's family at Mirdif City Center. It was nice seeing Rachel again after how many months with my god daughter. I always meet up with Jasmine but the last time we saw each other was few weeks ago when she came to see me at the hospital. We'd go out for coffee and shopping or I'd go to her house just to hang out or during parties and get together that we would be invited at their place. I was actually happy. I felt normal since I got hospitalized few weeks ago, It felt like I was not sick. I was worried about this day because yesterday Chief and I did a bit of a "trial" when we went to the same mall to do some grocery shopping. I did not fare so well that just a few minutes of walk just made me so tired and out of breath.---JUST WALKING! That's the last thing I wanted was another trip to the hospital. We then decided to sit down and eat since what we all wanted to ...