Today I decided to bake so I could give cookies away to random people at work tomorrow.
I decided on oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but instead of chocolate chips I cut up a chocolate bar with hazelnuts in it. Sounds delicious right???
I thought so too until I pulled this out of the oven:
Flat cookies.
Burnt cookies.
Fail.
I blame Italy.
Italy has killed my baking skills and bolstered my meat making skills.
All this because of a strange curiosity about pancetta…
Overrated, I’m ready to be vegetarian again and win back my baking skills.
Foodologie 
Haha I feel like that about alot of things. When my Spanish goes up my English grammmar goes dowwwn
At the risk of sounding “un-manly”, were I in your predicament I would gladly cash out my meat making skills in exchange for mad baking prowess.
Mmmmm pancetta. I will have pancetta in Italy before I do. Bummer about the cookies….it seems like I am finally learning how to bake while you lose your skills. Come back so we can switch-I am a notoriously bad baker.
POLENTA AND PANCETTA! That shot is restaurant-quality.
Hire me!