Please don't eat all the Morsels...!

When I was in college, one of the things i would do when I was depressed or really really stressed out or whatever is buy some cookie dough and chow down. (Seriously. I even converted one of my friends to doing the same thing.) It's actually rare that cake batter or cookie dough ever actually makes it to the oven to be baked, as a matter of fact. :)

So the weekend before the layoffs at work, I was actually feeling really anxious about the house. I knew it was in great condition, seemed well built, and I had done a good job negotiating the price...but I was stilll concerned about all the startup expenses--the utilities, buying things like lawnmowers and such...Was I really ready for this? So I was talking it out with my mom, and she suggested getting some cookie dough and making a few cookies (ah yes, see where I get the emotional eating from??)...so I drove up to HEB and picked up a couple tubes of cookie dough. Pillsbury peanut butter (no nuts!) and Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip.

So over the weekend I'm noshing on cookie dough, and occasionally baking a handful of cookies...and Monday after the layoffs I continued, and ended up snacking in the evenings all week...when to my surprise my mom emails me to ask if I'd thrown out the cookie dough. What?!?! Apparently there was a voluntary recall on the Nestle Tollhouse cookie dough tubes, and they were asking consumers to return them for a refund. Nice.

I looked into it...seems there have been some cases of E. coli (probably mostly in the northern states...they always seem to have rashes of food poisoning up north!) and Nestle decided to go ahead and recall the suspect products. One of which I happened to have in my possession, and which happened to be at least half gone by this time.

Fortunately I never felt any ill effects from eating it--my system is probably too strong (from DECADES of eating raw cookie dough!) to be overtaken by a little E. coli. :) Or something. :) Though I did make sure to tell my friend Adriana about the recall Saturday night at dinner...she's always grossed out when I tell her I eat cookie dough raw, and is always warning me that I may get sick from it.

No illness yet....I think I finished off the cookie dough that Sunday. ;) YUMMMMmmm...sure was good! :)