mortar and pestle

Here's a lot of baking and posting to make up for the lack of either once next semester starts.

(dear Apple, please pack a bigger sensor into the next iphone camera so pictures can look this good even in lower lighting)

Mmmmm cookies.

Originally, it's a largely painless process, especially since I've started to enjoy creaming butter and sugar. But no, turns out that all my brown sugar has all hardened. So there went an hour grinding them up, and scattering sugar into perhaps every nook and cranny of the kitchen. I was also initially worried that the dough was really dry and crumbly, but they turned out well :)

All in all a success, recipe via Everybody Likes Sandwiches.
(listen to her, the addition of salted almonds makes it so much better)