Cookies!

Well, despite the less than ideal kitchen situation we have here, we decided not to forego our annual tradition of making holiday cookies and tonight we set out to make some sugar cookies. We had a great time, and even though we were careful not to get our hopes up, they turned out great! There were some minor challenges (like converting the recipe into metric) and the fact that we don't really have an oven (but we have a toaster oven) but we overcame it all. In other cooking adventures, the toaster oven has been less than predicatble, but after a little trial and error (nobody needs to remember the vegan chocoloate cake incident of the most recent Eid) Sam has figured out that even though the little oven has a bake setting, a broil setting, and a toast setting, it can't seem to maintain the heat temperature unless it is on toast (so it is cooking from top and bottom). For Atticus' Christmas party at school Sam had toasted up some homemade oatmeal cookies that were pretty good, so we went for toasted sugar cookies this round. The other issue we encountered though was that the toaster oven is small, so we could only do about 6-7 cookies at a time, whcih meant that it took many many batches. About 2/3 of the way through we had all kind of lost a bit of the enthusiasm and gave in to cookie fatigue. All in all though, fun times. Here's a little photo collection from the evening.