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I'm sitting at the kitchen table writing this on my Chromebook. The breeze blowing through the open windows is nice and cool, and it's kind of cold in the house, maybe around 50 or 55. But it feels nice to me. I'm having some tea and eating a butter cookie.
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares - Not sure what's particularly Norwegian or Christmas-y about them but they're freaking amazing. Someone else described these as being like the Platonic ideal of sugar cookies, but in bar form. That's pretty accurate. I don't think I've baked a better cookie in a long time. The recipe calls for doing the mixing by hand, but I did hand mixing for almost twenty years and it's not all that. If you've got a stand mixer, put it to work. Save your arms. But you will need to spread the dough into the pan by hand.
And since Fox and I are now using the exact same model of Chromebook, we've decided to get stickers to differentiate them. Or at least, I am going to. I found this on RedBubble and it's perfect. Yes, there's a Hannibal reference. :D I am really enjoying having a device that just works, and that allows me to use real websites instead of getting mobile versions or redirected to a page telling me to download the app. Plus being able to type normally is great.
Once I finish my tea it'll be time to get back to my usual Monday chores. Hmm.
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares - Not sure what's particularly Norwegian or Christmas-y about them but they're freaking amazing. Someone else described these as being like the Platonic ideal of sugar cookies, but in bar form. That's pretty accurate. I don't think I've baked a better cookie in a long time. The recipe calls for doing the mixing by hand, but I did hand mixing for almost twenty years and it's not all that. If you've got a stand mixer, put it to work. Save your arms. But you will need to spread the dough into the pan by hand.
And since Fox and I are now using the exact same model of Chromebook, we've decided to get stickers to differentiate them. Or at least, I am going to. I found this on RedBubble and it's perfect. Yes, there's a Hannibal reference. :D I am really enjoying having a device that just works, and that allows me to use real websites instead of getting mobile versions or redirected to a page telling me to download the app. Plus being able to type normally is great.
