Flotsam / Jetsam

What I did on my summer vacation

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Rockford and I just got back from visiting Amy and Joe in Chicago. It was a lovely, lovely time. I don’t get to spend nearly enough time with Amy. We ate at Frontera Grill, watched “Whatever Works” at a humid and vaguely stinky theater and “Bonnie and Clyde” in Amy and Joe’s perfectly temperate and not-at-all stinky living room, Rockford and Joe went to the new Tarantino movie while Amy and I watched the “Project Runway” premiere, we went bowling — I had two strikes! Unheard of! — and found a great used bookstore.

I highly recommend spending a weekend with Amy and Joe. They’re terrific hosts.

Eating

A downer of a baking story, such as it is.

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The Daring BakersThe July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.

I wanted to share a nice, long post all about the Milan Cookies (Milanos! Yum!) that my friend Amy and I made for the Daring Bakers this month. But AT&T is so pathetically unreliable that I have no Internet access at home, so I’m typing this at the library. And there are three kids next to me (not mine) arguing about what video they’re going to rent, and it’s just not working.

So I’ll tell you this: The cookies were delicious even though they were a bit underbaked and cakey rather than crunchy and oh, good night kids just agree on a dad-gum DVD and git.