First foray into baking without a kitchen

We're doing a major remodel of our kitchen, which is extending rapidly into other parts of the house (there was a 5'x5' hole in our bedroom wall last week!). Our kitchen is a big hole.

I usually do all our baking to avoid nuts.. and because my Kindergartner needs an afternoon snack, I thought I'd try to bake some healthy (?!) cookies for him in our temporary kitchen upstairs.

I started out with an oatmeal cookie recipe, added toasted wheatgerm, currants, and tiny dark-chocolate chips (it can't be any worse than the nut-free Quaker granola bars he's been taking for afternoon snack!).

The kids were very excited about my baking, as its been over 2 months since cookies or cakes have appeared.. so they couldn't contain themselves and were aching to dive into the cookie dough, which they did to their satisfaction.

Well, the DeLonghi convection toaster oven did ok - despite its convectionness (!), the bottom cookie tray took longer, and the top tray browned faster.. but I made them!! I also decided bigger is better when it comes to my sons.. hence the second batch of super-sized cookies.

Its good to be back baking, and blogging :-)