{"id":41,"date":"2020-04-05T03:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T03:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2020-04-05T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T03:49:42","slug":"baking-cookies-during-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Baking Cookies During a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the time I started to learn to bake, I have been baking cookies. All through high school I would bake cookies.\u00a0 Arriving home from school I would pull out the ingredients and whip up a back of cookies.\u00a0 My favorites were chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.\u00a0 I would often make other kinds of cookies, but those were my favorites.\u00a0 Since that time I have realized that baking cookies is relaxing for me.\u00a0 When I am stressed or concerned about something I will navigate toward the kitchen and once again start a batch of cookies.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, I would make big batches of cookies.\u00a0 As my family grew I learned to double and triple batches. As one would expect, kids grow up and move away from their parents home.\u00a0 This is the situation I have found myself in&#8230;my kids, one by one, are growing up and leaving home.\u00a0 It has been an adjustment downsizing my cookie batches, plus, I have cut out sugar and refined flours from my diet, so I have had to stretch and search for new recipes.\u00a0 It is sometimes challenging, but even so, I still find the act of baking cookies relaxing, what better time to bake cookies than during a pandemic? Relaxing and rewarding with a sweet treat at the end of the process.<\/p>\n<p>In this video I make two different batches of peanut butter cookies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baking Cookies Brightens the Mood | Life UP\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-dBpqGHGxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the time I started to learn to bake, I have been baking cookies. All through high school I would bake cookies.\u00a0 Arriving home from school I would pull out the ingredients and whip up a back of cookies.\u00a0 My favorites were chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.\u00a0 I would often make other kinds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeintheup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}