Dendarii Dame vs. the Christmas Cookies

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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When some women hit middle age, they decide to run a business, run a marathon, or run for office. More power to them, I say.

I aimed for a smaller, first-time-ever accomplishment: making cookies from scratch. Today, I did it. And I’m extremely proud, because:

not all of the egg I cracked splattered all over my apron,

not all of the vanilla extract spilled,

not all of the cookie dough splattered all over the counter and the floor when I used the wrong setting on my mixer,

not all of the cookies burned,

and not all of the unburned cookies broke into bits when I touched them!

:smack::smack::smack:

They do taste surprisingly good, though. As a Dalek would put it, NOM, NOM, NOM. (They were peanut butter cookies, by the way, and I got the recipe from last week’s Parade.)

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Congratulations!

Next, oatmeal! Or maybe the Ginger Burst cookies from here. (I use less plain sugar and more of the brown. YMMV.)

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Grats!

Though with your name, shouldn’t they have been spiced maple cookies? :dubious:
:stuck_out_tongue:

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I could barely manage a recipe with a grand total of four ingredients. Spiced maple cookies have more than a dozen!

Ma Kosti, come teach me to cook!

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Where did you find the Bug Butter? I understand that’s the* real *secret ingredient!

StG

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I used peanut butter, not bug butter. (Sadly, my supermarket doesn’t carry it yet.) When my son spotted vanilla extract in the cupboard, he knew I’d be making cookies!

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What kind of bugs are used in making Bug Butter? (High-protein ones, I would guess…)

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Genetically modified bugs that barf up a butter-like substance instead of honey. No stingers, although with the Vor bugs, stingers are appropriate. (THis is fiction, Doug)

StG

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Specifically, the story of these bugs is told in Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel, A Civil Campaign.