PorkChopQueen: Thelma and Louise Bake Cookies

Kay and I have been friends for over 50 years. We were inseparable in school and played a lot of jokes on unsuspecting classmates. If the movie, "Thelma and Louise" had been a known entity then, we would probably have been given that as our nickname.

I remember going to our 20th class reunion and of course Kay and I were there together. As we were scanning the crowd trying to figure out who all the people were, up comes an old classmate, Larry, exploding with excitement as he points his finger at us and says to his wife, "There they are, I told you they would be together!"

Well, we're together again. My "party in a box" friend, Kay, is visiting and we have been going nonstop since she arrived.

Today, it is raining, windy, and cold so we decided to make homemade vegetable soup and cookies. Time is flying by cause "Thelma and Louise" is on. Forgot how funny some parts of the movie are and....that Brad Pitt had such a good part.

Well, Thelma and Louise went grocery shopping in the rain, this morning to get all the good stuff we needed for soup and cookies. Right now, Kay (Thelma) has mixed, rolled, and cooked, over 400+ ginger crinkle cookies, while I (Louise) rest and watch. Now that's a good friend. And we (actually Kay), have been making cookies all afternoon.

Bet you want the recipe don't you? If you're smart, you'll try it, 'cause I am so full of cookies right now I could jump in a rag top Thunderbird and drive toward the Grand Canyon!

Ginger Crinkles

2/3 cup Wesson Oil (Kay says if you use butter, the cookies are softer...she likes them crunchy, so she uses oil)

1 cup sugar

1 egg

4 tsp Grandma's molasses

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

Mix all ingredients and roll into marble sized balls. Roll in sugar and place on cookie sheet. Bake 8-12 min at 350 degrees. When taking out of oven press top down with a fork, hence the crinkle part. Makes about 75 small cookies.

Kay uses a pumpkin dip for these, but I ate mine straight. For the dip she uses: 1 can of pumpkin, pkg of cream cheese, cinnamon, ginger and cup of confectioners sugar (to taste).

Yummmmmmy!