Virgin Mary's Oatmeal Cookies

[ccrawford]

Some of us are trying to be good, but need a decent closure to an otherwise boring meal. Aha ! Try VMOC;

Ingredients:
2 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 tsp vanilla
2 eggs or equivalent egg beaters.
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups 1 minute oatmeal
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup evaporated skim milk
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Mash the bananas with a fork or blender to a liquid. Place in a large bowl and mix in the sugar, vanilla, and eggs or substitute. Mix together the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, and baking soda. Alternately add the flour mixture and the milk to the banana mixture and then add the nuts. Preheat oven to 375 and spray a cookie sheet with Pam. Put the batter, one tsp at a time on the sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until the cookies are just barely brown on the edges. NO GUILT COOKIES --- ENJOY !!!

 

[LoraW30]

Sounds yummy!!!! As soon as I can get to the store and get the right kind of oats and milk, I'll have a go at that one.

 

[Peggy in Alaska]

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That oatmeal cookie recipe is making me hungry. Do you have the nutritional breakdown? Or does anyone reading this have the weight watchers recipe builder? We could punch in the ingredients and figure out the WW points. I am an on and off again WW member. It works if I stay on track. I find it hard to stay on track.

 

[ccrawford]

Hi Peggy - sorry, I don't have the nutritional breakdown. I guess we could figure it out with one of the detailed books that are available - but that's so depressing to do !!! You would think it would take a lot to count up to 2000 (calories) but somehow the count jumps to that point. By the way, where in Alaska are you from? I have a cousin from King Salmon. We met via doing research on Ancestors.com and it turns out that eight generations ago we shared a common ancestor. I hope to get up to our largest state and do some serious fishing sometime. Maybe bring back a whole freezer of salmon !

 

[Peggy in Alaska]

If you are the outdoorsy type, you would love it here. And the fishing is great. We have halibut and salmon in our freezer all the time, not to mention the Kodiak deer meat. So much less gamier than the deer I tried in Wisconsin. So much healthier for you than beef.

I'll try to find someone with the weight watchers recipe builder. You plug in your ingredients and it will tell me how many points your cookies will cost me!

I am not from Alaska, but have lived here since 1978. So longer now than my birth state of Wisconsin. Been living in Anchorage the entire time except for 6 months way back before we had kids when we went off into the boonies and built a log cabin on a remote lake [only access was by float plane]. Beautiful place, wonderful experience, but I missed people, and restaurants, and movies. My hubby wants to stay here forever, I find the winters are way too long. We shall see who wins that fight! Have a 10 yr. old so suspect we will be here till she is off to college.

Anyway, thanks for the reply. I'll be sure to try that recipe in any event. It sounds pretty darn good.

 

[Peggy in Alaska]

To: ccrawford

P.S. Has anyone ever told you youo look like David Letterman with that hat on???!!!

Peg

 

[sylviayasgur]

actually peggy, chris looks just like a young version of joey's (and now mine too) uncle, iz yasgur.
he was the greatest vet in town and was written up for having discovered some kind of virus or fungus in animals.
he also happens so be max yasgur (woodstock farm) 's brother.
unfortunately, he retired, they bought an rv and moved to fla. and travel the country visiting their kids.
my favorite uncle! i miss them terribly, so it's nice to see chris's face each time i log on... reminds me of him!

 

[Peggy in Alaska]

Sylvia:

I still think he looks like David Letterman!

Chris:

I bought the whole wheat flour and evaporated skim milk yesterday and will try those cookies out on my kids this week.

Peg

 

[ccrawford]

Letterman is a fellow Hoosier, but he's a Ball State Grad and I'm a Purdue and Butler Grad. He seems to have found a lucrative profession !

 

[Peggy in Alaska]

ccrawford:

Baked those cookies last night. They went over fairly well with my kids. My 10 yr. old daughter ate 2 of them and said they were kind of like muffins.


I found my 17 yr. old and his girlfriend munching on them in the kitchen as well.