Cookies!

Fred and I are heading out to Joseph, Oregon (in the far Northeastern corner of the state) on Friday to celebrate our anniversary. It's going to be a long drive, so I decided to make some cookies to sustain us along the way.


I tried a new recipe for peanut butter and jam cookies out of my favorite cookbook, How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson. It's basically a peanut butter cookie with an indentation that is filled with jam when the cookies come out of the oven. I used the jam that we made last summer from the blackberries we picked in the neighborhood behind ours. And yes, one of the eggs in the carton above is green. My co-worker Sharon has chickens, and I buy eggs from her whenever I can. The green eggs come from Araucana hens and are as pretty as Easter eggs without having to dye them.


Anyway, the cookies turned out well. I'm sure any peanut butter cookie recipe and jam would work. They might end up being a little messy for a car trip, but we'll bring extra napkins and hope for the best. And we won't have to worry about the peanut butter sticking to the roofs of our mouths.