Surprises

This past week has come with some surprises.  After a year of pain in my knee and months of physical therapy, last week I got the okay to finally start working out slowly.  But Saturday night, at a party, I couldn't resist the backyard trampoline.  After less than 2 minutes, surprise, I hurt my knee worse than anything in the past year; my self-diagnosis and prior experience tells me it's a torn meniscus.  And of course the following day, we headed over to the state fair where I walked/limped around all day.  But another surprise, found a new knee brace that seems to be working pretty well.   

Even after 354 different cookie recipes, I can still get surprised by different recipes. 

#353 Low-fat Oatmeal Raisin cookie
I made this batch intending to pass it off to my husband's guys night group or to bring it to my co-workers to get rid of.  But it surprisingly is yummy.  My husband gave it a 5.  Another surprise, it called for 1 cup sugar and 1 cup brown sugar, but I missed that part and only put in the 1 cup sugar - so it's not got much sugar in it either.  Delish!

#354 Chewy German Chocolate Cookie
There are certain recipes that I have tried to save thinking they are going to be fabulous.  I figured this would be one of them.  Surprise again.  Hubby isn't home so he hasn't tried it, but it's only a 2 (out of 5) for me.