Recipe: Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

from the kitchen of Annie Hunt, who used to work with Neal

• 3/4 cup oats
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 stick of butter, softened
  
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 6 oz or 3/4 cup chocolate chips

1. Cream together butter and sugars.
2. Add vanilla and peanut butter. Mix.
3. Add egg. Mix
4. Add dry ingredients. Mix carefully, lest you cause a flour explosion.
5. Stir in chocolate chips.
6. Chill in fridge for 2+ hours or in freezer 30 minutes. Dough will keep up to 2 weeks.
   
7. Create reasonably sized dough balls and bake at 325 degrees for 12 - 15 minutes.
8. Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes; move to rack and cool another 2 minutes. (Alternately, throw caution to the wind and eat immediately.)