Cookie Karma
Last week my husband, Matt, was out of town with his unit. As they were setting up he lost his phone. I found out when his buddy let Matt use his phone to call me. I got a call every night from the same number; his buddy let him call me from his phone. I asked Matt to find out what his favorite cookies are and I'd make him a batch. Turns out his favorite are sugar cookies, sans frosting.
The recipe is my great-grandmother's and is from an age where "mix ingredients" translated to order and individual steps beyond those two deceptively simple words. There's an order, a rhythm, and if you go astray those cookies will turn out awful. I'm happy to say the recipe converted to dairy free quite nicely; Earth Balance butter is a great substitute!! The almond milk I used gave a nice light almond undertone to the cookies (and dough!).
I'm hoping Matt's buddy likes them as much as we do :)
Pantry in Progress
I mentioned at the last check in that I wanted to get containers before moving to the next phase. I tooka tangent and decided to run measurement numbers first. My pantry had a bunch of nails around the top that got my gears turning: could I move the shelves down and tackle two (or three) problem areas in one go? The drawer my pans were stored in worked well enough, unless I needed the stock pan or the dutch oven; to get either of those I had to empty all of the other pans out first. Then there was the large skillet; it wouldn't fit in the drawer, and had to go in a separate cupboard. Then there were the lids, which mostly fit in a long, shallow drawer but had to be in there just so or it wouldn't close. This culminated into a system that drove me absolutely batty every time I needed pans and/or lids.
I measured my two largest skillets, handles included, and worked with heights in the pantry. My bottom shelf was as short as it could be, thanks to a pipe in the back of the pantry. I measured bottles and storage containers, and decided all tall items would fit just fine on the bottom of the pantry.

That's it for today. Eat Happy!
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