homemade baked red potato chips

I got a craving for potato chips yesterday, and realized that we had none in the house.  I could have driven to Dollar General... but Buffy was on and the recliner was comfy, and I had already had enough of pants for the day.
Then I realized that while we didn't have potato chips, we did have red potatoes.
And so began an experiment that turned out exceptionally well, and will be revisited many times.

Garlic and Sea Salt Red Potato Chips

6 or 7 small red potatoes (depending on how many chips you want)

garlic cloves

sea salt

3 tb coconut oil

Preheat the oven to 350, then start by chopping the potatoes as thin as you want them.  Place them on a baking sheet, spread out as well as you can to make them bake through evenly.  Sprinkle the sea salt over them.  Chop up a couple garlic cloves and sprinkle them over the potatoes as well - I tried to make sure a piece of garlic was on every piece of potato because I love garlic.

Melt your coconut oil in a cup and pour it over the potatoes on the baking sheet.  Make sure a little oil gets on all the potatoes - the ones that miss out on the oil will burn, I found out the hard way.

Baking times vary on how crispy you want your chips to be - I think I left mine in there for close to 20 minutes.

I plan on trying a bunch of different herb combinations with these and seeing what other flavors we like! They're so easy to make as a side item.  Caleb and I are eating them as fast as I can make them!

Skillet Cookies

It seems that most of my cooking adventures that actually succeed are accidents.

Take these cookies, for example.

I meant to make sea salt chocolate chip cookies from this recipe.

I didn't necessarily want to add peanut butter, so I subbed in a cup of chocolate pudding.  And I didn't have butter, so I subbed apple sauce.

But the most interesting sub of all was that I didn't have a cookie sheet, so I cooked them in a skillet.

They actually turned out delicious, though they aren't the prettiest things in the world.

What you need:

1.5 cups flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

.5 cups apple sauce

1 cup chocolate pudding

sea salt (sprinkle it in to taste)

.3 cups granulated sugar

coconut oil

1 tbs greek yogurt

as many chocolate chips as you can stuff in there

Mix all your dry ingredients and set aside.  Mix pudding, apple sauce, and yogurt and add dry ingredients slowly, mixing thoroughly together - the texture of the dough is going to be kinda fluffy and sticky. Heat up a skillet and use coconut oil to grease the bottom and cook like you would pancakes - flip it over more often than you think you should so that the bottom doesn't get burned.  I flipped these about 3 times a cookie, just to make sure it cooked mostly through.

These are basically cookie pancakes, and they are yumm-o.  They'll probably be a little doughy in the middle, but I like my cookies that way, so I'm cool with it :)

yum!