It is a free mobile photo app that allows you to take photos using your iPhone and then share them with other users. In my opinion the best part of Instagram is the ability to "love" and then comment on a person's pictures. Its become a pictorial twitter, so to speak. A specific picture can have hundreds of comments and within those comments a dialogue can build and in some cases even a friendship.
Users will share their photos using hashtags that can then be clicked on to locate other users who have tagged their pictures with the same. Like I said, very much like Twitter.
My two all time favorite hashtags are #dailysqueeze and #squish. Apparently there are few things funnier in this world than using a giant hand to squeeze a teeny tiny object...and thousands of people are doing it!
On Sunday I thought it would be funny to do a #dailysqueeze recipe for my infamous chocolate chip cookies. So, for those of you who are not on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram I thought I would share it with you.
To begin you will preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. You will then need 2 sticks of butter & 1 stick of butter Crisco melted in the microwave until completely liquified.
Next you will measure 1 1/2 cups of both granulated and brown sugar and place in your mixer or a big bowl if you are mixing by hand. Which, if you are mixing by hand you are in for quite a workout!
You will then add the melted Crisco and butter in with the sugar and mix well. To this you will add 4 large eggs and mix well, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 4 Tablespoons of real vanilla extract (yes, I said TABLESPOONS!) and mix well. Finally you will begin adding a total of 6 cups of all purpose flour and mix really well.
At the very end you add 2 1/2 cups of chocolate chips (I prefer Hershey's semi-sweet) and then place the cookie dough onto your pans using a cookie scoop.
The next part is very important!! You MUST resist the urge to stick all those little balls of buttery chocolate goodness in your mouth because if you do you'll never get to taste how good they are when they're baked! So, pop 1 in your mouth and get on with the next step!
Set your timer for 8 minutes and put the 2 pans in the oven, 1 on the top rack and 1 on the bottom (obviously).
Yes, I have a magnet that says, "I fling poo". I have 2 boys with autism and if I don't laugh about the reality that is their potty issues I'd go crazy. Trust me.
When the timer goes off open the oven and rotate the pans(top pan goes on bottom and vice versa) so that the cookies bake and brown evenly. Return to the oven for another 8 minutes.
When the timer dings remove the pans from the oven and scoop out onto a wire rack to cool.
This recipe will make enough small cookies to feed a large army (approx. 60) or 30 very large cookies to feed a small army.
