​ Cookie Monster

I tried to bake cookies in the itty bitty oven in the Airbnb. This was extremely difficult for several reasons:
 
1) Ovens are not part of typical Nepali cooking. Almost nobody has one. The oven at the Airbnb is basically a glorified toaster oven.
 
2) The glorified toaster oven requires electricity. If the lights go out while baking cookies…you don’t bake cookies.
 
3) I used the tried-and-true Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe. Which uses cup measurements. But nobody has measuring cups because nobody bakes because nobody has ovens. And also everything here is in milliliters. I had to guesstimate how many coffee mugs of flour equaled 2.25 cups.
 
4) Sugar in Nepal is much coarser than in the US. Imagine coarse cane sugar.
 
5) “Brown sugar” is that weird coarse sugar with molasses dumped over it. It doesn’t make a nice uniform brown substance like in the US. Imagine sugar covered in sticky brown syrup. Yuck...
 
6) The glorified toaster oven is in Celsius. 300 degrees Celsius is a lot different from 300 degrees Farenheight. Let’s just say I burned the first batch. 

Next time, I'm making brownies.