January is gone, and with it the bare-bones practice month at ZCLA, which was marked by no talks and no cookies on Thursday nights. It has been more than 6 weeks since I pulled out the cookie sheets and baked. (Well, there was a little baking here and there, but not for a crowd.)
Although certain people (ahem) did not help out by buying me ANYTHING from my Amazon wish list - which was basically 90% filled with cookbooks - my wonderful sister bought me two that I was looking forward to, and I decided to take matters into my own hands (there being 9 months until my birthday, so little chance that anything other than self-help would result in the landing of any smiling amazon.com boxes on my desk from other forces) and add a few more cookbooks to our already groaning shelves. One of those new cookbooks is the newest cookbook from Alice Medrich, whose books I adore (as a quick perusal of the blog will reveal). Her new cookbook is nothing but cookies - be still my heart!!! The new book is called Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies. It looks very promising, and the first cookies of the year will be coming from it this week. It is brimming with good-looking ideas, and between that and the other cookbooks I got, we can look forward to some new and fun recipes in 2011!
Of course, Andrew and I also joined a gym in January, and so I will be doing less eating (of cookies, at least) and more exercising, so now I have to make sure the cookies are amazingly good since I can only have one (0r two). Can I both bake cookies weekly AND get healthy? I hope so!
A report on this week's cookies tomorrow....
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Welcome back brother!! Really missed this weekly blog a lot.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the 1 or 2. Wish I were closer, I would volunteer to be the taster! i don't have a trainer or a gym (I should but I don't).
Love, Phyl
If you invite that fabulous personal trainer to a Thursday night I bet you'd manage to whip up an amazing, low fat treat!
ReplyDeleteKeisen, apparently he is crazy for chocolate, and given how much he works out, I think he would be ok with the not-so-low-fat treat (although he is doing a shoot for a swimsuit company today, so no chocolate yesterday for sure). But read on...
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