I am always looking for an interesting ingredient for a cookie. I am sure that is what drew my attention to this recipe. Warning: If you don’t already know that you like matcha green tea, I would recommend you not try these. My experience is that this is not a universally appreciated flavor.

Recipe By:

cookpad.com

Ingredients:

3½ ounces unsalted butter
¼ cup granulated sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1 egg
5¼ ounces all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon matcha green tea powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup coarsely chopped white chocolate or white chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 330F. Shift flour, green tea, and baking soda together. Set aside.

2. Microwave butter until it’s melted. Combine the sugars and butter together. Add the egg and salt, then mix.

3. Stir in flour mixture with a spatula. Stir in white chocolate.

4. Drop cookie dough in rounded tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets covered with parchment paper.

5. Bake about 12 minutes. Don’t over bake!

A young man and woman were having an argument. She pulled out a switchblade knife with intentions of using it on him. He wisely turned and started to run away. Just like in the movies, she snapped the blade open and threw it at him. It struck him squarely, burying the three-inch blade deep into his back. He collapsed to the ground, moaning in pain. Someone at the scene tried to pull the knife out but, being unable to do so, called 911.

Our evaluation, including x-rays and scans, failed to demonstrate any evidence of serious injury. He was taken to the operating room where the knife was removed by a spine surgeon.

The blade could have stabbed his lung, spinal cord, esophagus, windpipe or a large blood vessel like his aorta. But, it happened to hit him in just the right place so that only skin and muscle were cut and the point of the knife was buried in the bone. All of these tissues would heal nicely. I’m sure the same could not be said about his relationship with the girlfriend.

The Deadest Person

It was the end of my shift and I was just leaving Slidell Memorial Hospital in Louisiana when I was called back. The paramedics had just alerted the Emergency Department that they were on the way with a severely injured trauma victim and my help was needed.

The patient was about thirty-years-old and was not wearing a helmet when he crashed his motorcycle into a car at high speed. He was thrown under another car, which ran over him. A voluntary ambulance crew picked him up and rushed him to our emergency department, performing CPR.

Since the patient was not breathing, I was assigned to intubate him by placing a tube into his windpipe so we could ventilate his lungs with oxygen. As other members of the team quickly performed their assigned duties, I easily passed the tube, secured it in place and then started to blow oxygen down the tube. What happened then caused everyone to stop what they were doing. With each push of oxygen down the tube, he started to puff up. His neck expanded and air bubbled out of a cut near his eye. His abdomen started to expand, then his scrotum. Each time I pumped in air, his scrotum puffed up a bit more until it was the size of a grapefruit. When I pinched the enlarging scrotum, air was forced out of a large cut over his hip. He was pronounced dead.

An autopsy done the next day showed multiple fractures of his extremities and spine. In addition, he had at least four things that would have killed him: His head was completely dislocated from his upper spine. His left lung was completely ripped off with extensive damage to all the other organs in his chest. There was a huge hole in his diaphragm, which separates the chest cavity from the abdomen. His liver was completely demolished. His pelvis was severely crushed. All of this explained why he had puffed up as we blew oxygen into his wind pipe. The oxygen went down the windpipe and into his chest cavity. It then passed through the hole in his diaphragm into his abdomen. The crushed pelvis allowed the air to continue down into the scrotum and out the hole over his hip.

This was the deadest person I have ever taken care of.

I was wanting to try peanut butter cookies made with butter and powdered peanut butter. When I bought the powder, this recipe was on the back of the bottle.

Recipe By:

Back of bottle of Raley’s Organic Powdered Peanut Butter

This is a common brand of powdered peanut butter.

Ingredients:

¾ cup brown sugar
½ cup powdered peanut butter
½ cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup flour
⅓  cup oats
½ teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350°. Line baking sheets with parchment.

2. Cream together brown sugar, powdered peanut butter, butter, egg and vanilla.

3. Add flour, oats, soda and salt. Stir to combine.

4. Stir in chocolate chips.

5. Scoop onto prepared baking sheets. Flatten with bottom of a drinking glass, buttered and dipped in sugar.

6. Bake about 12 minutes.

If you Google Doubtree Cookie Recipe, you will find many different, but similar versions of the same. I got this from our son’s mother-in-law, Sandy. Can’t say how it might compare to the many other versions out there. I also have NO IDEA what the heck a tiny bit of lemon juice might do to a good-sized batch of cookies.

Recipe By:

Crazy for Crust via Sandy Obreza

Ingredients:

½ cup old fashioned oats
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup unsalted butter, melted
¾ cup brown sugar, packed
¾ cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon lemon juice
2 large eggs
3 cups chocolate chips
1½  cups walnuts, coarsely chopped (optional)

Directions:

1. Place oats in a small food processor or blender and grind until they turn powdery. Place them in a medium sized bowl and whisk in flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.

2. Stir together melted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth. No mixer needed – just use a wooden spoon or spatula.

3. Mix in vanilla, lemon juice and eggs. Stir until smooth.

4.  Stir in flour mixture.

5. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

6. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Scoop ¼  cupsful of the dough into balls and place on the cookie sheet. You do not need to space them. This is just for chilling. Cover well with plastic wrap and chill at least 4 hours or overnight before baking. Heat oven to 350°F. Place cookies well-spaced on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Slightly depress each ball with the palm of your hand.

7. Bake for 13-17 minutes.

Notes:

I didn’t refrigerate them and scooped them in 2-tablespoon balls. They were very good, baked for a shorter time, of course.

The Insanity of My Addiction

Paramedics were called to a house where a twenty-six-year-old man was having a severe allergic reaction after injecting methamphetamines. He told the medics he didn’t think it mattered what he mixed the meth in before injecting it. So, since he had some handy, he had used grape juice. Soon after injecting the juice-meth mixture, he started to feel terrible and called 911.

The medics found him in severe distress with fast heart, low blood pressure, swollen face and diffusely red skin. They correctly diagnosed a severe allergic reaction resulting in anaphylaxis and appropriately treated him for the same. By the time he got to the emergency department, he was feeling a lot better.

When I talked with him, he confirmed he had injected meth mixed with grape juice and he didn’t seem to think there was anything strange about having done so. He said he had done the same in the past, and he was sure the problem that day was caused by dirt in the cup he used to make up the mixture.

When I asked how often he used meth, he answered, “How often do I not use meth?” I asked him if he wanted to be smart with me or if he wanted to give me serious answers so I could take good care of him. He said he was not being smart. He used all the meth he could get ahold of.

Since a severe allergic reaction like this can be life-threatening, we watched him for several hours. None of his worrisome symptoms came back, so I went to talk to him before he was discharged. I pointed out that most people would not think it was a good idea to inject grape juice into their veins. He reiterated that he thought it was contamination that caused his problem. I pressed him, again, that it was unwise to inject things not designed for that purpose. He thought for a moment and then agreed, saying, “That’s just the insanity of my addiction.”