Chocolate Cherry Pistachio Pinwheels

I made a bunch of these for Christmas 2005, thinking I would send them to all my relatives as gifts. (There was a picture in Woman's Day with littls stacks of pinwheels tied with ribbon...) But I was baking them on Christmas Day. You kind of lose your enthusiasm for sending out Christmas gifts come December 26. Especially when only about a dozen of the cookies actually looked gift-worthy. (A lot were cracked and broken from the dough not being very pliable when it was rolled together.)

This is a photo of the second attempt at the pinwheels. It was also the first time Scrappy had ever used a rolling pin. Not that helping roll them out made her any more enthusiastic about eating a cookie that didn't have chocolate chips in it. I thought they were tasty enough to make in March, though.

Sara's Wedding

I didn't make the food at my friend Sara's wedding, but I was taking pictures at the table, so I've decided that means they automatically get to be included here.

We ate that...

It's hard to believe how much can change in a year. I used to think McDonald's breakfast was a little slice of heaven. Then I started to eat it every weekend.

It's also hard to believe this blue thing in the picture was the closest thing to a dining room table the little one had ever known. It's a beat-up blue folding chair turned to face the couch. Those are her pancakes with jelly and my coffee. 2005...

(Yeah, if you're following the dates posted here, we were baking cookies at my place on the night of the 16th, eating breakfast at LV's place on the 17th. And those two places were not exactly close to each other.)

Oatmeal Toffee Coconut Confections

After surrendering all of our Oatmeal Scotchies to the public school system, LV decided he wanted to make more. Immediately. Unfortunately, the Food World in my neighborhood didn't have the right Toll House butterscotch chips, so I took the recipe off the back of the Heath chips bag and we made some oatmeal cookies with Heath bits and coconut. They were really good. I have no pictures, though, of the product. Just of LV helping make cookies at my apartment (a slightly larger workspace).

[Note: The fan is on in the middle of December. So the opposite of the new place.]

Bake Sale!

2006 was sadly a year without Oatmeal Scotchies. I don't even have a picture of the Oatmeal Scotchies--just this picture of all the tiny workspace I had for baking cookies for Scrappy to take to school the next day for a bake sale. They were good. And then somehow they just never got made in 2006. (There were always more votes for Strawberry Cookies or Chocolate Chip Cookies.)

Best. Vacation. Ever.

I did not make this food (note: styrofoam), but I was starving and we had a great view of the beach from this dirty Mexican food stand. I can only hope I enjoy every meal as much as I enjoyed whatever this was in San Diego...