December 2009 Archives

It happened to be my birthday yesterday, and it also happened to be one that was specifically a multiple of 10, so Decay asked me to not make any plans for the day, and to choose a place for dinner with friends.  Given that we were going to have a fairly large group of people (20, including a couple of toddlery rapscallions and a not-quite-2-week-old), I figured something Chinese-ish would probably work.  So ... a booking was made for the lot of us at David's Restaurant, and after a morning at a day spa, lunch at a Japanese restaurant (although our sentimental first choice was closed), an afternoon nap (!), made our way to the restaurant (passing a cop car that got itself smashed through the window of Rebel...!), and got some food infront of us!

Pics of food (a bit blurry - proofing on a point-and-shoot in dim lighting when I insist on turning off the flash and using the macro mode, is kind of ... difficult), and possibly some commentary, after the cut: 

While I was browsing about for recipes, I found that I kept looking for recipes where the picture was of icing sugar-covered cookies, with slightly cracked tops, which I have found are known as crinkle cookies in some parts, crackle cookies in others, possibly also some snowball-referencing names too. I've been doing a fair amount of cookie freezer stash building in the last couple of weeks, and I'm thinking these will join the Christmas lineup, because chocolate + hazelnut = nutella?  I actually had a few recipes to choose from, but this one ended up being the one I chose because it had a different method to what I've previously tried, and that's always fun!  Having skimmed the recipe, I now realise that I left out both the baking powder (not much), and the salt (not much either), and seeing as I'm writing this while the batter/dough is chilling in the fridge, I've got no idea how this is going to turn out!

Update: Seeing as there's now a pic in this entry, I can say that leaving out the baking powder didn't cause a disastrous outcome.  A trayful was rolled and baked last night on Decay's request, and X was also quite partial to the little morsels.