On Holidays

So we are officially on two weeks of stay at home holidays which I wanted to celebrate with these yummy mint chocolate chip cookies.  They taste like an After Eight chocolate in cookie form -  delicious!  I will be making at least one batch every November now as a kick off to the holiday season.  No, my food photos will never be Pinterest-worthy, I am a real life cook/baker and let my cookies cool off on the counter overtop newspaper and the parchment paper they were baked on. Who needs to spend money on cooling racks?
I used this recipe from allrecipes.com, left out the nuts as didn't have any in the cupboard that day and used the mint chocolate chips from the gift basket I won last week.  Family says two thumbs up.

All the Christmas gifts have been purchased (I might get one more for hubby as thought of something last night), house decorated, and turkey is tucked away in the freezer, purchased at .95 cents a pound utility, of course.

Our rain did finally stop, the State of Emergency is  officially over and roads reopened - thank goodness.  Most businesses that were evacuated but not damaged lost two days of trading.  Some homes were damaged but will get some financial relief from the Province (not much but something).  We are under a boil water advisory due to all the water issues of late in our town reservoir so we have been boiling up large batches of water and filling two litre pop bottles so they are handy on the counter - no bottled water here

Off to make some blackberry jam this afternoon with Mom.  I have never made it but today is the day I learn - plus free up some space in the freezer from all the frozen berries.  I hope everyone has a nice relaxing weekend!