Not too shaggy.

An hour ago Mario said, "I could go for about 20 wings and a half dozen chocolate chip cookies."

The grocery list on our refrigerator has two key items to make the above request nearly impossible for me to oblige. We are out of sugar and Frank's Hot Sauce. The pantry at the beach house has plenty of each but we forgot to bring them home with us on our last visit.

However, we do have a ridiculous number of cake mixes on hand. After a few minutes on the Internet (can somebody please invent a kitchen friendly laptop/recipe finder thing?) I found a bunch of cake mix recipes. There are things I didn't even know you could do with a cake mix...but hidden among them all were many many recipes for cake mix cookies.

I picked this one. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix 2 eggs, 1/2 cup oil and one yellow cake mix. Add chocolate chips. Bake for 10 minutes.

Mario was skeptical, but it's hard to blame him because he has tried a lot of my pantry experiments. I delivered one cookie to him. He ate it. And another. And another. He's waiting for the next batch to come out of the oven as I write.

As my dad would say, "Not too shaggy!" I know he would be impressed if he tasted them too. I foresee many cake mix cookie experiments with bargain cake mix finds in our 2010 Grampin' adventures.

I'm not even going to tackle the hot sauce situation until I go grocery shopping. Franks cannot be duplicated. Tonight he can eat extra cookies instead.