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Last night Wonderful Husband and I baked cookies. Part of this was prep for Fanime in two weekends' time: we work in ConOps and always, always bake a metric fuckton of cookies and schlep them up in our luggage for Ops and anyone who happens by to enjoy. So a week or two beforehand we usually test out recipes. Last night we did chocolate chip, which came out quite well, and tried out a new oatmeal raisin variant, which... tastes quite nice, but is very flat and too sticky for good packing/schlepping/ease of subsequent separation.

However!

The purpose of these cookies was in fact two-fold: not only were they to test recipes, but they were to be a bribe! For tonight, not too far from our home as these things go, Tamora Pierce was giving a short talk and then signing books. So I sewed up a couple small bags (embroidered her initials on the one that was plain muslin), we stuffed them with cookies, and off we went carrying ten hardbacks between us. I haven't been able to attend one of her signings since 2003, you see.... So now all of our Tortall books are signed (save the three we haven't acquired in hardback yet and the two that are, ah, very clearly ex-library copies...) as well as two of the Circle books. Which leaves me with eight more Circle books on the shelf as well as two short story collections. She's doing another signing Saturday evening in Pasadena, but though I think Wonderful Husband enjoyed tonight's talk he will probably not be willing to be schlepped to another one in two nights' time. I will probably go alone. So, should I take six (the remaining parts of the Circle quartets), eight (all Circle books), or ten (all books) with me...?
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The first round of cookies (a double batch of oatmeal raisin) are completed and mostly packed--the last three sheets' worth are still cooling a bit.

Wonderful Husband is mixing up the batter for the triple batch of chocolate chip cookies. Due to the sheer volume of this project, he is using our largest mixing bowl (the one usually only used for my making salsa, a recipe that begins with "take the CostCo can of tomatoes and...") and the hand mixer instead of the stand mixer. Wonderful Husband has just called me downstairs and informed me that we have now killed the hand mixer's motor. As in, it is dead. At least this happened at the point when all that was left to be mixed in is the chocolate chips, which need to be done by hand anyway...?

I'm going to miss that little mixer. It's been a steadfast companion for a long time now.

Guess this means I use the stand mixer for the scones, which are next up after the chocolate chip cookies are done....

In the meantime, I pack.

EDIT: Wonderful Husband just came upstairs. Last night he'd measured out seven cups of chocolate chips from our last Ginormous Bag Of Chocolate Chips, and was going to add the last half-cup from the new bag while making up the cookie dough tonight. He opened the new bag, but then stopped and checked the ingredients list, just to be safe. The new bag is "manufactured in a facility that also processes peanuts." Errr... I think not. So he did NOT add the last half-cup and now we need to find someone to dump a Ginormous Bag Of Chocolate Chips onto. And hope that we can find a replacement bag for next time which is nut-safe.

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