Winter Queen Cookies: Redux

So, last night was my annual Winter Solstice Partay. And - among many, many other things (some of which didn't even come out) - I made a variation on Seanan_Mcguire's Winterqueen Cookies.

Which are chocolate and pomegranate and all sorts of deliciousness, let me tell you.


What I did:


1 C margarine (or butter, or whatever)
1 C granulated sugar
2/3 C brown sugar
1/4 C pomegranate molasses
2 large eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp (or maybe a little more than that) baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

1 C cocoa powder
1 C amaranth flour
1/2 C corn starch

1 C chocolate chips (+ 1-2 tbsp whipping cream), melted
1 C spelt flour

1/2 pomegranate worth of pomegranate seeds



Cream together the first group of ingredients.

Mix in the second group of ingredients.

Mix in the third group of ingredients until everything is the consistency of thick batter (Rather than dough).

Mix in the pomegranate seeds.

Refridgerate the dough for about an hour.

Pre-heat the over to 400F.

Grease the hell out of a cookie sheet (you will have to do this for every round of cookies).

Drop spoonfuls of dough (well-spaced -- I did nine to a sheet to allow for the spreading) onto the cookie sheet.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Pull out of the oven. Allow to cool *a bit* and then *carefully* remove each cookie using a metal flipper/spatula.

Serve and enjoy. :-D

Goes well with secret affairs, whirwind romances, spouses your parents don't approve of, and the milk of paradise. :-)

Looking for a Ride for my Girlfriend (Please to be spreading far and wide).

Hey!

So, throwing out a quick call for help here.

My sweet darling is coming up to Toronto tomorrow.

She's not sure what day she'll be going from Toronto to Ottawa: Partly this will depend on whether or not she can spend some time with her Toronto sweetheart and partly this depends on when she does her shoot with Todd, and partly this depends on when she can get a lift to Ottawa.
But she does need to be in Ottawa on the 25th.

Obviously, I'd like to see her earlier than that, but that all depends on the above-mentioned sweetheart-and-ride situation.

She would rather be traveling with someone who has been pre-screened by a friend rather than with a complete stranger off of Craigslist.


As such, I'm throwing this out there (please spread it far and wide, O friends with friends in the Toronto-and-Ottawa areas):


Is there anyone driving from Toronto to Ottawa on the 23rd, 24th, or the 25th (earlier rather than later on the last one) of December, who would be willing and able to take another passenger who is traveling on a hell of a budget right now?


Let me know, so I can send you her contact information.


Thanks a buundle! :-D



- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Unexpected Truths

So, in a comment-thread of a friend's post, one of her friends said:

"I turn vicious to defend myself and my reactions, because no one, including myself, defended me as a kid."


I think I know a lot of people who do variations on this for exactly that reason. Myself, I suspect, included.

I thought it was well-stated, so I'm putting it up here 'cause I think it needs to be heard. :-)