Star cooks, that is. You know, Martha Stewart, Mark Bittman, the Rombauer girls. Even though it was ninety degrees outside, I was IN THE MOOD. I closed up the windows, turned on the air conditioner, and jacked up that oven. I made Bittman's homemade pancakes with real maple syrup and Martha's chocolate cookies that looked like this:
Get the recipe here. (The photo comes from The Amateur Gourmet, too.)
And I checked in with the Rombauers' Joy of Cooking in search of good ways to use all this squash I have.
And then I made big pots of tea and brought plates of chocolate chip cookies to the cozy chair and sat down and read Bittman's How to Cook Everything. (I tried to practice the Okinawan principle of “Hara Hachi Bu”: eat until you are 80 percent full--so I wouldn't eat all my goodies too fast--but I just couldn't do it.)
Boy, am I ready to show off now.
4 comments:
Jealous. Am plotting to make those cookies Wednesday. Will post evidence soon.
-cK
Wednesday's temps should be perfect for baking! And you could say you're baking them (1) to mourn the Cubs losing and (2) to celebrate the Illini and Bears winning. That way you can eat a double share.
Oooh cookie porn! So enticing.
Hey - if you have any baked goods that turn out too dark, too misshapen, too lumpy - or just too many, feel free to consider passing them along to me, huh? ;-)
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