Last night we were finally able to get cookies to bake evenly in our oven on the island. Here is the modified recipe, which gives new meaning to the name "half batch:"

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
2 capfuls vanilla
1/2 cup white flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oats
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

The mixed types of flour, the extra oats and baking powder combined to make 11 (a poor man's dozen) powerful cookies that were gone -- inspired by Usain Bolt of Jamaica -- in record time.