Comments on: We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Book Review (for a cookie recipe!)

By: What Cooking Means to Me « Charlotte’s Web

What Cooking Means to Me « Charlotte’s Web — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:44:14 +0000

[...] I like sharing recipes and talking food. This I do with many of my friends, and also with my blog friends. I’ve made Bloglily’s spice cookies and they were gorgeous, and I’m going to make Kerryn’s white chocolate cheesecake with raspberries when I host my bookclub dinner in January. I’m planning to try Jen’s fudge once I’ve recovered from the Christmas excess. [...]

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:33:07 +0000

Q — thank you. I like holiday napkins!

Charlotte, thanks for making that warning so very clear.

Hello Archie — There are many lovely things that can make a completely isolated Christmas feel like the best thing ever. And food prepared just to your tastes is certainly one of them.

Hello Princess, I’ve been reading about that lovely cafeteria you get to use in Brussels and I have to say I’d trade a cookie or two for a meal there.

By: princessbenelux

princessbenelux — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:42:02 +0000

Oh my I am sooooooooooooooooo hungry now! I want some of that Indian tea with cinammon in it to go with them. YUM!

By: archiearchive

archiearchive — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:32:45 +0000

I have stored the recipe and collected the ingredients. As I will be completely isolated for Christmas this year I shall bake these on Christmas Eve. Maybe I will hold my cinnamon cravings at bay until Christmas Day.

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:38:06 +0000

Later … I thought I should provide a warning for your readers. These are so delicious that you eat TOO MANY! But if one is going to over-eat, then it’s a good way to go. Still yum.

By: qazse

qazse — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:31:40 +0000

I think the choice of the napkin was the key

By: bloglily

bloglily — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:16:12 +0000

Hello Charlotte, I’m sitting at our kitchen table staring at the 80 million of these I made last night to take to a work meeting today. I wish I’d thought to cut them into shapes! I’m so glad things worked out with them.

Oh Helen, My heart goes out to you… a little. I love those napkins. Believe it or not they also come in the form of kleenex, which makes me laugh.

Susan — Congratulations on that novel! I’ve been following along but my hands are so sticky from all the dough (okay, okay, I’m so stunned from eating so many cookies) that I haven’t had a chance to say so directly.

I’d love to know how things turn out Eoin, if you do get to cookie baking. But even if you don’t, the image of you pulling a pan of beautifully made cookies out of the oven is more than enough.

My goodness Giniann, I can’t imagine you being intimidated by any type of cooking, not with that beautiful blog full of lovely Indian food. It’s interesting, isn’t it, what we feel at ease whipping up in our kitchens and what makes us a little nervous? My blind spots have to do with anything you’ve got to simmer on the stove until it changes consistency — I always think I’ll miss the magical moment and then take the pot off and realize I’ve got something that has failed to do what it’s supposed to do because I acted too soon.

Kristen — I loved snickerdoodles when I was a kid. There’s something about cinammon sugar that makes anything hard to resist. Maybe I should try sprinkling cinammon sugar on my query letters (when I start sending them out, I mean).

It’s very nice to see you here Q. And three times! I’m glad you like the picture. I like having visuals of the things I hear about. So, I just point my camera and snap, and sometimes things are clear and sometimes they’re not. It’s a little bit like writing blog posts and comments.

You’re right, LK. One of my favorite cakes comes from Sunset. They seem to be interested in clarity, and ease, and lots & lots of butter. I’ll look for the Thanksgiving issue.

HMH, That’s my almost last food thing for a while. On to books!

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:50:10 +0000

I’ve just made them! A raging success in the biscuit department, thanks to you, BlogLily. Mine turned out quite brown, a little chewy on the inside, a little crunchy on the outside. For the first time ever I made decent glaze (by following your instructions exactly) and it drizzled wonderfully. I reserved half the dough for the cookie cutters and now we have spice biscuit crowns, Christmas trees, angels, stars and moons.

For English readers, these taste a lot like Gingernuts, but with a heady undertang of molasses. Yum.

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:47:34 +0000

Wah, please don’t show me delicious cookies and tell me how to make them. I will be forced to do so and then eat them!!

I love the festive napkin, by the way. That is a yummy photo.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:52:11 +0000

Those look really, really good.

By: eoinpurcell

eoinpurcell — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:48:57 +0000

Now they look great!
Must give it a go!
Eoin

By: giniann

giniann — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:40:49 +0000

You left such a sweet comment on my blog:) I have always been intimidated by cookie making. This recipe looks real simple.

By: Kristin Ohlson

Kristin Ohlson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:01:42 +0000

These look wonderful. Recipe sounds a little like snickerdoodles, as I recall, which I adore.

By: qazse

qazse — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:32:49 +0000

great visual, you have such a good eye… Beauty is expressed through all the senses.

By: LK

LK — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:18:24 +0000

Sunset has the best recipes, don’t they? I usually buy their Thanksgiving issues.

Thanks for this. I will definitely make a batch before reading the EVs.