Responsible citizen

I'm actually a little excited to be serving as a juror for a case and being able to be involved in The System, but goshdarnit, why does it have to fall across my weekend?! Thank goodness for apple pie and Au: better living through nummistry.

Sum by Au

Tonight I am experimenting again with almond butter cookies (peanut butter cookies - peanut butter + almond butter + almond meal = yum) but plan to make them into sandwich cookies. I might try two flavors: chocolate filling and lemon filling. Or ginger? Does ginger go well with almond? I guess we'll find out.

Ok, pull out your lovers, here's another one:

Boute by Au

Possible Ventures

How much easier it would be to experiment with food if most of it disappeared after I'd had a few bites and shared a few more and all my supplies spontaneously replenished themselves. List of things to try:

• Almond butter cookies sandwiched with a chocolate ginger or citrus cream filling and more flour in the cookie dough
• Pie babies with a jam filling
• Something made with almond paste/marzipan/frangipane
• Brown sugar cake in my best darn imitation of Paley's Place (mmmmmmmmm)
• A science-themed multi-course dinner involving dry ice, thermos glassware, sodium alginate, black pepper extract/crystals, etc.
• Breakfast Party #2! and not revisit anything I made for #1
• Cooking meat (I mean really preparing and cooking, not my usual half-hearted sautéeing crap)
• Better vegan treats
• Fancy pastries
  
• Candy making
• Gingerbread made with honey to replace molasses and sugar
• A new recipe from each of my cookbooks, excluding my #1 ladies Betty Crocker & Fannie Farmer

I should clarify the last item to "and excluding skinning or killing any animals per the Joy of Cooking" since I think I could go my entire life without ever having to make soup from any future children's pet turtles or skinning a beaver. Currently I'm in Kansas city visiting maternal relatives. I have never missed fresh produce and foods without cheese sauce and an excess of salt so much!