Honey, you baked!

Whenever I bake, I always think about the scene in Clueless when Cher is getting ready for her date with Christian and tries to bake some cookies for him.  She takes a roll of store-bought cookie dough, rolls it onto a baking pan, and sticks it in the oven.  However, she forgets to take it out and causes a minor fire.

Anyway, that is neither here nor there. 

I decided that I was going play Sally Homemaker and make dinner.  Since starting school, I almost never cook, and mooch off my parents for almost all of my home-made food.  Yesterday, I made chili, which is something we never make at home, since it doesn't really fall into the Russian food category.  It was really yummy-lots of turkey meat, beans, and tomatoey sauce.  I served it with sliced avocado, chives, cilantro, sour cream and shredded cheese.  My family approved.  My dad even took some to grandma's house, and she really enjoyed it.  It's a chili miracle!

For dessert, I made a "chocolate chip cookie pie" which is basically a giant chocolate chip cookie/pazooki. 

When I posted the pic on Facebook, I think people assumed that I did something very fancy, when in fact it was super easy.  I googled a recipe for a "Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie"-this is the link on AllRecipes.com.  Naomi mixed up the cookie dough, and instead of spreading it thinly on a pizza pan like the recipe says, we shoved the dough into a pie tin.

Two really important things to remember:  cook the pie for about 30 minutes longer than the recipe suggests, since the middle is really thick; and cover the pie with tin-foil so that the crust doesn't burn while the middle bakes through. 

We ate it"a la mode" with vanilla bean ice-cream.  It turned out to be a super rich, decadent dessert.  The only down-side is that I ended up falling into a major food coma, and instead of going out with my friends, I ended up vegging on the couch and watching Russian TV with my mother.