a fifo wife {fifo life: bake it: best chocolate chip chewy cookies}

I got out of the pool on Wednesday afternoon and head to the car whingeing and whining all the way. It was not swimming and nor is it swimming weather. It’s winter so naturally you swim in winter well I have started to. I’m not one for making things easier for myself. I am swimming three days a week and I started swimming because I thought I was fit. I am not Mount baldy my children and two fifty-year-olds showed me that. Three weeks ago I had the brilliant idea to walk Mt Baldy my children bounded leaped ran all the way all awhile leaving me to vomit at various points. That afternoon I vowed I would get fit well fitter than I was or am at that point. My children seriously ran that mountain and last weekend when I took the cousin up the mountain we were passed by two easily aged 50-year-olds also running the mountain not shuffling but ruuuuunnnnning the mountain. As they said excuse me please with out even missing a breath the cousin threw his hat on the ground with a curse whilst I leaning against the only tree shook my fist and said under my breath I will get you I swear I shall…

So I’m swimming because running requires too much coordination.

Three weeks in and the 70-year-old woman who initially passed me on my first day no longer passes me {there was a mental fist pump that day because being passed by a woman twice your age does nothing for your esteem but a lot for your I will beat you attitude} in fact I am swimming around 1.2 kilometres easily now and am increasing my time and length each week.

So naturally a post on getting fit would and swimming would also include a recipe on chocolate chip biscuits and the best chocolate chip biscuits I might add but I swim for fitness not diet. I don’t believe in diets we don’t like each other. I can’t see the point of them moderation is the key to happiness right?

These biscuits they are all sorts of chewy and chocolate and were exactly what I was thinking craving when I raced to the car that afternoon and were exactly what I made when I got home. Matched with a hot chocolate a good swim under my belt it was a good good afternoon.

Best Chocolate Chip Biscuits.

What you will need:

• 125g butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 caster sugar (or white sugar)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 1 cup self-raising flour
• pinch of salt
• 3/4 cup plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips or dark whatever your prefference

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat (or in the microwave) and set aside to cool slightly.
3. Pour butter into a large bowl and stir in brown sugar and caster sugar until smooth and sugar is mostly dissolved. Add a pinch of salt.
4. Lightly beat the egg with a whisk or fork and stir into the sugar mixture along with the vanilla.
5. Sift flours and baking powder together into a small bowl and then gradually mix into sugar mixture until combined.
6. Stir through chocolate chips.
7. Drop rounded tablespoons of the cookie mixture onto lined baking trays.
8. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden then remove from oven and allow to cool on trays for 3 minutes before transfering to a wire rack to cool completely.

{image source here with thanks}