When I'm stressed, I like to cook (or clean things if there's nothing to cook). When I relax and get happier, I like to eat. After I eat, I feel I should work out to make it worth it. Then I get stressed again.
Repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
In the past week or so, I've been a teensy bit more stressed than usual. Working out has helped immensely, and it makes me feel good. However nothing makes me feel great like going into the kitchen and cooking. Thus these creations came about:
Over the holidays, I had a wonderful meal prepared for me of pork loin with a cranberry-balsamic-rosemary sauce. This is my recreation of that, and I must say I pulled it off! Cheesy polenta (a new near-constant craving of mine) and roasted cauliflower rounded out the meal. So. Good.
These are a standard peanut butter cookie recipe divided in half, with one half getting peanut butter, as normal, and the other half getting Nutella instead. I then chilled the doughs to make it workable, pressed them together, rolled it all up, and sliced. Some I rolled into balls to make swirly, while others were left in the cut form, producing spirals. 
They spread out a little more than I would have liked. I might need to increase the flour (although the dough was already so thick the little motor on my ancient hand beater was whining alarmingly), or decrease the butter.Either way they are amazing. And I have that independently confirmed from external sources as well! Stress, you have been defeated for now. Until we meet again, I shall stay ever vigilant, my knives well-sharpened.
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