We had a great New Year's Day. As far as our city goes it was no big thing. That's coming up with Chinese New Year.
While many people like to go out for New Years, we had a homey, low-key day. We had received a package from home on Christmas Day. Among other things there were chocolate chips, pecans and dried cranberries. So giving ourselves the day off for the holiday we decided it was a good day for baking.
Now, our kitchen is rather small. If people know where things are in there and you coordinate your steps you can get two and if very careful three people in there. But we were game to try. So Mark, Seth and I set about our cookie baking day. We did the standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, of course. If Mark ever has to request a "last meal" I have no doubt that chocolate chip cookies will figure in the menu. And because I am a big fan of dried cranberries I found a good recipe online for cookies with cranberries online. If you are interested here is the recipe:
Cranberry Cookies
The house smelled wonderful with batch after batch of cookies coming out. Then we got out some of our games. Seth is very much like Mark, something of a ham, so the game of choice was Guesstures. I am normally a bit self-conscious with that game, but since it was just the 3 of us it was a lot of fun and no pressure. We relaxed, ate cookies, chicken nuggets, watched a movie for most of the afternoon.
After that Mark and I went out on our bi-monthly date. It was Mark's turn to plan so we went to a favorite restaurant not far from here, Wicker Basket, for dinner. After that Mark had arranged for us to got to a friend's hostel to use their private lounge. He had brought his guitar and we just had a good time singing together. Then a movie on their big screen tv. Public Enemies ( Johnny Depp!) if you are interested.
So, I guess party animals we're not, but it was a pleasant way to ease into the New Year.
Cheers!
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