Back-to-School Promos and Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Aug 06, 2025 10:11 am
Back to school...
Huge crying emoji!
That's right, I HATE back-to-school. Besides being stressful for parents as well as kids, I hate it when my babies (note: they are teenagers) go back. I know I'm supposed to like it. I'm supposed to be like, "Now I get so much done during the day." (Which I do.) But I still miss those dog days of summer.
So I spent some time today creating some promotions to make myself feel better.
With Nook...
I'm running a BOGO FREE promo for my Unlikely Heroes series. It'll run from the 11th to the 18th.
Then the 18th-25th, I'm doing a BOGO FREE for The Determiner Series.
On Google...
August 18th-25th, will have a series bundle for The Determiner Series where you get 20% off the whole thing.
Since many of you are new, a reminder that my audiobook Four Seconds (an addiction and recovery memoir) is FREE on Spotify Premium. It's my friend's true story of her dive into addiction.
A little about it:
In her debut memoir, Andrade tells of her years with cocaine and crystal methamphetamines—using, then selling—until all she had left of the life she wanted was a chalk outline and a pack of cigarettes. This is the story of her use and recovery, of the people who frustrated and inspired her, of her decision to leave the drug world.
It is the story of her slow, often unsteady walk home.
And then because the kids are back at school and we all know they're famished monsters when the return home, I'm giving you one of my all-time favorite cookie recipes. It's super easy, higher in protein than normal cookies, and dense and delicious (note: also tastes excellent with vanilla ice cream).
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Note: This is the original recipe, but I usually only use 3/4 C sugar and omit the other 1/4C, in case you--like me--want to pretend you're more virtuous than other parents.
1 C peanut butter
3/4 C white sugar
1/4 C brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 C chocolate chips
Mix all ingredients together except chocolate chips. Then add chocolate chips (told you it was easy).
Roll into balls (12 large or 18 small). Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. They will be just barely barely golden at the edges. I recommend you take them out at 10 minutes (11 if they're large) whether you see gold or not, because these can burn fairly easily. They won't even look burned, but when you taste them, they will taste burned. I expect that the PB burns more easily without the flour to temper it a bit. Please, be warned and watch the clock, not the cookies (not usually a rule to live by, but trust me).
When you take them out they'll be kind of thick. You can mash them with a spatula if you like which causes the edges to crack a la snickerdoodle and is lovely, or you can leave them as thick delicious mushroom cap cookies.
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