The Lemom Poppy Seed Extravaganza

Last year, I swear I could make this cookie.

I don't know where that recipe went, or how I succeeded, but this time it was, as failblog would detail, and epic fail.

I followed the recipe fine, but the 'combine' all ingredients should have read:
Cream the Butter
Add the Sugar
Then the Egg
then the flower and so on.

As the prefects say.

http://bakingforthecure.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/lemon-poppy-seed-cookies/

recipe

I am trying this again tonight. I hope more luck ensues.

Julien/Julie/Julia

I actually worked in a bakery, but there is a good chance that you would never note that.

It was called Polka Dot Bakery an is not a specialty cake store. I can promise you working there was nothing like ace of cakes.

http://www.polkadotcakes.com/aboutus/index.html

I chopped canned apricots and prepped tarts for the MET, and in my spare time drank the vanilla bean lemonade and read my summer reading books, I was 16 at the time.

One of the few things I learned was the concept of Mis en Place, or the idea of placing out the ingredients before you cook, as to not end up S.O.L. half way though.

It turned from a bakery coffee shop into a cake store the summer after I left.

The Bad Baking Blog: Ralph Nader's Two by Two by Two Cookies

Back in October in an attempt to vote and be a tad non-biased in my decision making, I subscribed to Mr. Obama's, McCain's, Nader's, and a few others political news e-mails.

I quickly stopped reading them as the race was much easier to follow through the internet, and as it was widely televised, though I did end up reading an e-mail from Nader's campaign at one point in the race.

Truly underfunded, he was asking for donations, any amount which contained the number 2, which would receive a cookie recipe from him in exchange for the support.

He claimed that the cookies were hearty and strong, just like his vision for America.

I quickly jumped at the offer and gave Mr. Nader my only financial support for the race. $2.

I received an e-mail later that week with, as promised, his families recipe.


I chuckled at it, looked at the ingredients, and kept it in the back of my head.

Much later in the year, I dug it out, and with the help of Logan, my resident chef attempted to first hunt down the odd ingredients, like Orange Blossom Water, and Rose Water, and set out full fledged Two-Two-Two cookies.

Simple to make, rather healthy, and completely disgusting.

Feel free to give it a try.

My roommate took a liking to them, but as I've since learned, he likes a lot of stuff.

I am now not all too sad that Obama won.