I posted this a while back when I was having issues with the Sundance Film Festival, but decided to post it again in honor of Jenny Matlock’s Summer School and the color indigo. Last year during Sundance, these lights were strung all over Kimball Junction which is on the way into Park City. I just loved them!

I don’t however, love Sundance. If you want to read my rant about Sundance, it’s in the “She Shoots” archive. DISCLAIMER: no celebs were actually hurt during the writing of that post….

For more bubbly blue posts, click here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
Happy Rainbow Thursday!

So, I know that I really whine all winter about this

But, because we had so much snow last winter and so much rain this summer, this has been the greenest summer I ever remember on the Wasatch Back. This area typically is very wet in the winter and has a short, green early summer and then it dries out and gets kind of brown. Not this year! It’s still green and I’m really enjoying it.

1 lb unsalted butter, softened
3 cups light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 t vanilla
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 t salt
2 t baking soda
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Cream the butter until smooth

add the sugars and beat until smooth again


Just a little side note here people, I have a rather common mental disorder called obsessive compulsive disorder (see the post about my yellow chalkboard below). As a result, when I looked on the screen of my camera and saw how cool the picture of my mixer in motion was, I had to take more and more and well, more. So it would appear that there are many more pictures of my mixer in motion in our futures (sorry)
Beat in eggs, one at a time and the vanilla



Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda




Slowly beat the flour mixture into the butter/sugar mixture

fold in the chocolate chips

then transfer the dough to a large sheet of plastic wrap

cover and refrigerate for four hours

Just look at all that buttery, chocolatey goodness…
When you take it out of the refrigerator, drop it by the ice cream scoop onto parchment lined cookie sheets


Then bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 8 to 10 minutes…

YUM..
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This post is a confession of sorts about an obsession of sorts, my yellow chalkboard. It is also in honor of the color Yellow and Jenny Matlock’s Rainbow Summer School. For more yellow posts, click here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

A few years ago, I bought a yellow chalkboard to post menus on when I have parties or cater weddings.

Isn’t it cute?

Anyhoo, it’s become quite an obsession. I started by listing what I was planning on serving for large parties and weddings and then cooking from the board so I wouldn’t forget anything. Later, I found I needed it to make dinner for myself. Now, I sometimes find myself writing things on it like “coffee, toast, jam”. Can you say, obsessive compulsive?

While I’m airing my dirty laundry, so to speak, I have another obsession with these dirty, disrespectable old yellow cowboy boots that I just refuse to replace. I cleaned the horse manure off them for these shots:

What’s that you’re saying? Time for some new boots, Rocky? Yeh, yeh, I know..maybe next spring….

I also have a really old, kind of rusty looking pickup truck that I drive around town. It’s not yellow, though, so I’ll save that for another time when we know one another better….