stuck at the 'brary

surprise surprise. coco proves, once again, to be an idiot. i was being a diligent student and getting my work done at the library, and really wanted to take the 3:40 bus. BUT since i wasn't keeping track of time, i walked outside and what did i see? the 3:40 bus driving away. the next one isn't for another hour. ugh. i just want to go hoooome. i wish my car wasn't broken again.

also, i sort of lied to get out of a conference today (for a good reason!) with my professor, and then, of course, i saw him in the hallway exactly when we were supposed to be conferencing. lying always, always, always bites me in the ass. whatever. the good reason was that i didn't have anything to say to him because i hadn't done my homework yet. well, it's not a good reason, but it is a reason. i would have been wasting his time otherwise. oh my god, i am the worst graduate student ever.

mayo cookies

in an effort to further procrastinate, i decided to make something sweet this evening. so, horror of horrors, when i found, looking through fanny farmer, that every cookie and cake recipe calls for eggs, i thought i was through. i'm poor! i don't have any eggs! alexa has one egg left, and i felt bad using it for sweet-stuff purposes.

sooooo, here's the world's greatest no-egg fix:

mayonnaise! right, i know, you can also use applesauce, or bananas, or some oil and some baking powder, but i didn't have any of those things. but i did have mayo. it makes sense, since eggs and oil are pretty much the only things in mayonnaise.

here's the recipe (so, so, so easy):

1 cup of sugar
1 cup of mayo
2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

combine everything in a bowl. roll into small balls and dip balls in some extra granulated sugar. press sugared balls with fork. put in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

this makes a lot of cookies.

and i snickered pretty much the whole way through that last paragraph. heh.

enjoy your mayonnaisey cookies!

UPDATE: so now that i have actually eaten one of these mayo cookies, i can better report back. basically, they taste like cookies you made when you were missing ingredients. they taste fine, and are especially enhanced by dipping in milk, and they are cute, too, but they aren't the world's greatest cookie, by any means. also, the texture is a bit cake-like. still, for cookies made on the cheap, they're just what the doctor ordered.