Chocolate chip...que??

A great American tradition that absolutely no one currently living in the United States should take for granted is the baking of chocolate chip cookies.  That golden, delicious, crispy on the outside, gooey on the inside, milk's real best friend cookie is something that has been missing in my life lately. So Sarah and I decided to fix that problem.  Here is a sample of how our conversations have been going for the past couple weeks:

Fourteen days ago: "Let's bake chocolate chip cookies!"
Thirteen days ago: "I bought white sugar and flour...couldn't find anything else..."
Ten days ago: "Found vanilla! This tiny bag of chocolate chips is...4 euro!"
Nine days ago: "Baking soda is 'biscarbonato' in Spanish."
Eight days ago: Sarah to every grocery store worker,"Tienes biscarbonato?"
                            -"Que? Bis...que?"
Seven days ago: "We have brown sugar!"
Three days ago: Rosa to us (in Spanish), "I found baking soda...at the pharmacy!"
Today: "Let's bake chocolate chip cookies!"

-"How do you use the oven?"
-"Rosa says we can't use the hot water...so let's microwave it a cup at a time."
-"Why are there pills in the mixing bowl?"
-"I just google translated 'teaspoon'...Rosa still doesn't know what I'm talking about...."
-"She has no measuring devices...wingin' it!"
-"No te preocupes Rosa, vamos a limpiar la cocina."
-"Does this look like a cup to you?"  "Yeah, sure...."
-"This 'no electric mixer' thing is a real workout."

  -"Why won't the salt come out of the thing?"
  -"Si, Rosa...vamos a limpiar...."
  -"Why is the brown sugar exactly like white sugar?"
  -"....ate too much cookie dough....ugh...."
  -"No cookie sheet.  We're using the oven rack."
  -"No Pam here.  I sprinkled melted butter instead."






-"They're turning into one big cookie..."
-"Vale Rosa, vamos a limpiar la cocina pronto."
-"Why is the oven smoking?"

 -"Well...they taste pretty good."

.....

-"Oh jeez...why did we have to eat so many...."

Baking Cookies: what an adventure.