Last night I was craving something sweet, cole slaw for dessert the last month had worn itself out. I went into the pantry and started rummaging around and all I could find was a bag of white chocolate chips, that'd have to do. I never made any cookies before in my life, but I read the back of the package and figured I could throw something together that would fill the bill. I had flour, sugar, salt, and butter and would need to make a few substitutions. I didn't have time for the butter to soften so I just threw it into the microwave, then mixed it up with some brown and white sugar, added the flour and salt. I couldn't find vanilla extract so I substituted maple syrup, no macadamia nuts but we had cashews and mixed nuts. I had cut the recipe in half which said it would make 30 cookies. I had the oven pre-heated to 350º and baked two sheets of eight cookies for 12 minutes each. What I ended up with certainly wasn't White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies, but the house smelled great, a nice change from cole slaw. RAY