When the mister and I were first married we did what all newly married couples do...we established some ground rules. After the mister tried to decorate our home so that it looked like the inside of a Holiday Inn...grass-cloth on every surface with tropical print bedding, drapes, rugs...I decided that he could have control over the outside of our home but I would have control over the inside. He quickly agreed...too quickly...he pointed out that we lived in an apartment and therefore there was no outside so he didn't have any chores to do...ever. Obviously an oversight on my part. So I made a few amendments...the mister would have to make ice cubes (this being before the invention of an ice maker) and he would have to clean the showers, windows and all AUTOMOTIVE ISSUES were his and his alone. He agreed. And we didn't have one problem with our system until the car died. Then he tried to push fixing it onto me. I pushed back. Automotive was his department. Why he didn't just go outside and look under the hood and kick a few tires was a mystery to me! That's what all men did, wasn't it?!?! My dad can hear a bad exhaust 5 miles away...he can change a car's oil in under 15 minutes and he's never met a carburetor he didn't like...he KNOWS cars. And I stupidly thought all men were born with car knowledge. Oh how wrong I was. Turned out the mister knew how to start a car, drive it, park it and he also knew that the trunk of a man's car was meant to carry golf clubs, in case he happened by an empty golf course on his way home from work. And that is all he knew. Over years, he's only learned one additional thing about cars...who to call when they break.
My car suffered a recent stroke or something very similar. When it wouldn't start I informed the mister he was up at bat. And while he dealt with the car surgeon, I made Chocolate-Coconut Macaroons. I was already eating my third cookie by the time he was finished. Which means these cookies are extremely easy and fast to make and/or the mister is extremely slow at talking to car people...long story short, my car has been resuscitated and the mister thinks he walks on water.
These are slightly crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside - sweet chocolate flavor marries the coconut...a match made in Heaven! You're going to love these! 5 dangs worth!
CHOCOLATE-COCONUT MACAROONS
1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
1 egg white
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoons almond extract
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 bag (14 oz.) flaked coconut
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line baking sheets with foil and
grease and flour foil or use Silpat sheets. Set aside. In large bowl,
combine sweetened condensed milk, egg white, vanilla and almond
extracts. Stir in cocoa powder and then coconut. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls, about the size of golf balls, onto prepared
baking sheets; with back of spoon, slightly flatten each mound. Bake
for 17 to 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from baking sheets; cool on wire racks. Makes about 24 cookies.
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." ~ Bill Gates
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