The Peace Corps and Florentine cookies

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baking, Blandford Historical Society, Florentine cookies, Peace Corps, postaday2013, presentation, writing

Tonight, the Blandford Historical Society is having a presentation honoring the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps. Several members of the Board of Directors are going to give talks relating to their time overseas serving in the Peace Corps. I decided to make cookies to help out with the refreshment portion of the evening. I decided to make Florentine cookies to change it up from the usual chocolate cookies, oatmeal raisin or sugar cookies.

As you can see from the pictures, I decided to melt chocolate and drizzle it over the just baked cookies. I tried to get the cookies to be somewhat uniform in size and color but they seem to have a mind of their own once they get into the oven. The cookies themselves are relatively simple; almond meal, a tiny bit of flour, orange zest, a pinch of salt, a tad of heavy cream, some sugar, butter and light corn syrup. They get baked like drop cookies; a rounded teaspoon of dough onto the cookie sheet and presto in the oven. The challenging part of baking them is the ratio of sugar to flour makes them very easily burnable.

I hope that they will be happy with the cookies, the baby boy most certainly is, he has had three so far; two with chocolate and one without. He liked both equally. I trust his taste, I only wish the baby girl were here to give her opinion as well. I’m going to keep a few for when my hubby comes home. He never minds tasting my baking projects.

Impossible,nah!

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believe, faith, hope, impossibility, postaday2013

What are the six impossible things you believe in? (If you can only manage one or two, that’s also okay.)

Is anything impossible? We made up the word, but just because we made it up does that necessarily mean that it is 100% true? I am sure that before the Vikings, impossible meant finding land west of Norway or of England. The voyage to the moon was definitely under the realm of impossible before we decided to put our minds to that task and show that it wasn’t impossible.

I think that impossible is a relative term and I hope that time travel and everything that falls under the science fiction umbrella will one day, not mean impossible. Spock has a cool saying with the word impossible in it. Something about if you examine all the possibilities and the only thing left is the impossible, then it must be the probable one, or something of that nature. It, of course, is only cool when Spock says it.