Cookie pucks....

Finally, the heat has broken. Yesterday, we had an afternoon of thunderstorms and about half an inch of rain fell. Today, the temperature is a much more reasonable 25 degrees C or so, with a lovely breeze and a lot less humidity. We got a full day of work in today, instead of hiding inside all afternoon like we've had to do for several days this past week, while the sun beat down and the temperature rose to 30+C, and with the humidity.....40C. Just nasty.

Anyway, I took the morning and processed beet pickles, then mixed up batches of 3 different cookie doughs. Being still leery about how the day would go temperature wise, and not wanting to heat the house up by turning on the oven, I scooped the cookies and froze them on waxed paper covered cookie sheets. When frozen, they were stacked into a large cookie tin, wrapped in their separate pieces of waxed paper. So now, whenever we want a little treat, a pan of 6 fits nicely into the toaster oven which can sit out on the table on the screened verandah, and all the heat will stay outside. Some days, you just need a cookie!