December 18: Snickerdoodles

[osprey_archer]

Wednesday reading meme is going to be Friday reading meme this week. I am sort of behind on everything on account of the Chicago trip.

December 18: Please use one day (any day) to post a recipe. (for morbane)

I was puzzling about which recipe to post, but then Emma and I made snickerdoodles this afternoon and, well, snickerdoodles! They are really the cookie with the best name. (I meant to include a bit in the Christmas book about whether snickerdoodles with a little nutmeg in the topping would count as Christmas cookies, but in the end it didn't fit anywhere, and alas I didn't think to try it today.)

Snickerdoodles
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 3/8 cup flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
cinnamon sugar for the topping

Cream butter & sugar. Mix in egg & vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Shape into balls & roll in cinnamon sugar. Bake 8-9 minutes at 400 degress F.

We took them over to Chelsea's place to watch Muppet Christmas Carol (everyone else thought the Ghost of Christmas Past was creepy. But the Ghost of Christmas Past is clearly the best ghost. It is ethereal and not creepy at all!), and afterward we fell to talking about TV, as one does...

And it turned out we all watch Agents of SHIELD. All of us! Clearly I need to get all caught up so we can discuss it together.

OH OH AND MAYBE THEN WE COULD HAVE A WEEKLY AGENT CARTER TV NIGHT WHILE THE MINISERIES AIRS. This is the best idea.

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Speaking of SHIELD, I just finished episode 8. I like Bobbi Morse (and Simmons' girlcrush on Bobbi Morse. ALSO SIMMONS RAVING ABOUT PEGGY CARTER, oh Simmons, I <3 you), although I am pretty sorry that she isn't wearing her evil Hydra coat anymore, because that was glorious and wonderful and the tank tops are comparatively boring.

Also boring: Bobbi's boring mercenary ex-husband whose name I can never remember. I actually like most of the other new characters (aside from Bobbi, I'm particularly fond of Mack), which never happens to me with TV shows; generally I reflexively dislike new characters purely for being new. (Like, "Ugh, I didn't sign up for your show!")

And also I feel really really bad for both Fitz and Simmons right now, and I kind of think that Fitz is projecting all his worries onto her romantic rejection because dealing with "Simmons doesn't want to date me" is just so much less painful than "Simmons pities me because I may never be brilliant again, and also she feels super guilty about the brain damage, and that guilt is what drove her away and may keep us from even being friends again."

(Admittedly the show never spells out that this is why she left, and my theory may get blown out of the water in the next two episodes. WE'LL SEE. I would also like a bit more Simmons in general, to see her reaction to being a Hydra mole - I feel like that would be very hard on her, lying to people all the time - but I don't think the show is going there. They're going to waste time on the boring mercenary bothering Bobbi instead.)

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Snickerdoodles were a cookie I'd never had until I went off to college. My roommate's mother made some, and I *loved* them. I got the recipe, and I've loved making them ever since.

generally I reflexively dislike new characters purely for being new. --I understand this: I'm always afraid they represent some plot- or scenario-derailing new development. Sometimes I like the new development (I liked Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager) but how much I like the new character is usually in inverse proportion to how much I liked the show as it was in the first place.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes! If the show starts off with a dream team, then there's almost no way a new character represents any direction but downhill. Like The West Wing. It has problems in other areas, but they got the character chemistry just right (once they'd added Charlie to the team. I suppose there might be an exception for early character additions, because usually there's some tweaking in the first few episodes.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Totally tangential but: yesterday at the jail one of the women I was working with had a whole pile of current romances. I was wishing so hard that your books existed in paperback form too, because then I could donate them. Have you thought about offering them in paper form?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've sold enough to justify it, really. Maybe an omnibus at some point in the future? I think the three novellas together would make a reasonably sized book.