Oatmeal Cookies made with oil

Oatmeal Cookies

1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teasp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 teasp. baking soda
1/4 teasp. salt
1/2 tesp. ground cinnamon
1/8 teasp. ground nutmeg
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F  Grease cookie sheets. In large bowl, mix oil, sugar, egg, and vanilla until well blended.
Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix in oats and raisins last.

Drop by rounded teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet.

Bake 10-12 minutes in the preheated oven.  Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely.

Armenian Bakery, Egyptian Market

The place to buy Armenian pizza...lahmajun.... in Glendora...this little bakery with lots of steady customers. They sold kibbeh frozen in bags of 20 for 20 dollars. They sold Borek (soft bread turnover) with cheese, Borek with spinach, and lahmajun (one dollar each).

 Lahmajun

The Egyptian/Middle East grocery store next door had Nazook...a tender sweet flaky rolled up pastry.

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MMMmmm....some Polish food here, too...

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Sumac...what is sprinkled on humus in restaurants....

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On the corner of Grove and Foothill...is a big strawberry filed and a stand. I could not believe that they were harvesting strawberries already and that we could buy and eat freshly picked strawberries int he middle of January!!!!!!

Joan had to take pictures of the pickers in the field....an early harvest!

Big, juicy and sweet!

C A L I F O R N I A  in  January 2014 !

PIEOLOGY

We heard that PIEOLOGY-where you can order ANY kind of pizza....you watch them put on the ingredients..kind of like Subway...kind of like Chipotle...is really good..so we went to one...

It takes about 3 minutes to bake these nice thin crusted pizzas.

 Joan had bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives, red onions, cilantro....

 John had buffalo chicken pizza with red onion and cilantro....

Our receipt....we were at the Pieology in Rancho Cucamonga.

 Just a segment of the big wall of inspiring quotes they have at PIEOLOGY.....so as you eat, you can contemplate the wisdom of these quotes...

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MMMMmmmmm....

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