Hello Everyone,
I'm emerging briefly from the hole in which I am writing my MFA thesis with laser-like focus to share a few things.
First, a recipe.
For Tahini Butter cookies.
They are stupidly good. Especially for the exceptionally satisfying crunchy texture all the oil in the Tahini imparts.
Because sometimes in February, you need to just coat your heart in sugar and butter and fat.
Ingredients
1/2 c butter, room temp
1/3 c brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c tahini
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 & 1/4 c all-purpose flour
mini chocolate chips to taste (PUT IN AS MANY AS YOU WANT IT IS FEBRUARY)
Directions
Have two baking sheets at the ready
Preheat oven to 350
Cream butter until fluffy in a mixing bowl w/ an electric mixer.
Beat in sugar and salt.
Next beat in tahini and vanilla.
Add the flour in 3 batches, mixing in each addition until just blended.
Fold in chocolate chips with a wooden spoon.
Eat some dough. Maybe a lot of dough. There's no raw eggs, so no salmonella. Do it.
Roll dough to walnut-sized balls between your palms.
Place each one on an ungreased baking sheet 2 in apart.
Flatten the center of each cookie lightly with the back of a small spoon; they'll crack a lil. Nbd.
Bake the cookies until lightly golden and fragrant, about 15 min. Watch so they don't burn!
Let cookies cool in the pans for 5 min, transfer to cookie racks, eat some, put the rest in a tin, maybe eat some more, feel better.
Next, an amazing song by a singer I admire greatly, a woman who blew my heart open during a sunrise set at Burning Man this past year in such a way that I haven't quite felt the same since--Ayla Nereo. Take 3:26 minutes out of your day to be still and just listen to this song.
It's ok.
Lastly, an excerpt from Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume about our favorite of months. As a writer who has a frigid, midwestern bed and lover all the way over in Afghanistan at a place called Camp Integrity (long story), this passage made me chuckle.
I leave you now; happy almost V-Day.
Love,
Allie
I'm emerging briefly from the hole in which I am writing my MFA thesis with laser-like focus to share a few things.
First, a recipe.
For Tahini Butter cookies.
They are stupidly good. Especially for the exceptionally satisfying crunchy texture all the oil in the Tahini imparts.
Because sometimes in February, you need to just coat your heart in sugar and butter and fat.
Ingredients
1/2 c butter, room temp
1/3 c brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c tahini
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 & 1/4 c all-purpose flour
mini chocolate chips to taste (PUT IN AS MANY AS YOU WANT IT IS FEBRUARY)
Directions
Have two baking sheets at the ready
Preheat oven to 350
Cream butter until fluffy in a mixing bowl w/ an electric mixer.
Beat in sugar and salt.
Next beat in tahini and vanilla.
Add the flour in 3 batches, mixing in each addition until just blended.
Fold in chocolate chips with a wooden spoon.
Eat some dough. Maybe a lot of dough. There's no raw eggs, so no salmonella. Do it.
Roll dough to walnut-sized balls between your palms.
Place each one on an ungreased baking sheet 2 in apart.
Flatten the center of each cookie lightly with the back of a small spoon; they'll crack a lil. Nbd.
Bake the cookies until lightly golden and fragrant, about 15 min. Watch so they don't burn!
Let cookies cool in the pans for 5 min, transfer to cookie racks, eat some, put the rest in a tin, maybe eat some more, feel better.
Next, an amazing song by a singer I admire greatly, a woman who blew my heart open during a sunrise set at Burning Man this past year in such a way that I haven't quite felt the same since--Ayla Nereo. Take 3:26 minutes out of your day to be still and just listen to this song.
It's ok.
Lastly, an excerpt from Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume about our favorite of months. As a writer who has a frigid, midwestern bed and lover all the way over in Afghanistan at a place called Camp Integrity (long story), this passage made me chuckle.
I leave you now; happy almost V-Day.
Love,
Allie
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