This day, last year

One year ago, on this day precisely, I started to blog. 161 posts and more than 49000 visitors later here I am. Still utterly fascinated by writing and blogging as I was a year ago. Not jaded or tired. Not of writing. Because here, on this blog, in these words, I live and relive. I live once in reality and once when I write about it and many, many times when I go back and read it.

What started as an outlet for my creative(?) expression, morphed into a mommy blog – you can’t blame me, blame Chip and his father– and has now, sort of weaned itself away from that topic exclusively, trying to find a new ground. Mixed metaphor be excused. I never imagined I would be here one year ago. Not on my blog and not off my blog. The blog has witnessed my moments of extreme anguish and moments of extreme joy. Moments of pride, moments of peace, moments of confusion, moments of confidence and moments of unanswered questions. All here. Wrapped in these blog posts annotated with thoughtful comments. Your comments. From you who turned out to live across the street from me and you who live half a globe away. You who shared my happiness and shared my distress. You who engaged in a fierce debate with me, questioning my dogma. You who patted my back and gave me a hug. This blog would not have been where it is without you. And so on my very first blogivesary, I am going to leave with with a recipe for something sweet. Like you'all. A batch of sweet, nutty but healthy cookies. Bake em on your blog anniversary every year and let me know how they turn out.

Blogiversary Oatnut Health Cookies

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup old-fashioned oats
2 tbsp fine semolina
1 ½ cup brown sugar
½ cup walnut meal (run walnuts in a food processor)
1 ½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp kosher salt
A good pinch nutmeg
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 cup fat free yogurt
¼ cup fat free milk

Preheat the oven to 350F. Mix together all the dry ingredients except sugar. Beat the yogurt, vanilla and sugar together until fluffy. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, alternating with small quantities of milk. Do not over mix. Spoon with a table spoon onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet (or grease the cookie sheet a bit) taking care to space the cookies. The cookies spread while baking. Bake at 350F for 12-15 minutes or until the tops turn golden brown. Transfer immediately to a cooling rack. These cookies are chewy. Enjoy in a within a week. Makes about 30 cookies.