Pig Cookies

These cookies were supper one night; I got out of class at 10 PM and didn't feel like making real food. Consequently, of course, too many were consumed by me...

I made two batches of the following recipe, but to one I added a bag of Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips, which Bean had purchased to make muffins with (HA!).

Cream:

3/4 c. butter, softened

1 c. sugar

Add:

2 eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla

And then:

2 1/2 c. flour

1 tsp baking powder

a sprinkle of salt

The plain sugar cookies were allowed to cool for about an hour, which made them very easy to roll out and shape with the pig-and-man cookie cutters which I pilfered so long ago from my parent's house. Less than 24 hours later, all of the chocolate chip cookies are long gone, and a few lonely pigs linger on the kitchen counter.

Terra Cafe

Terra Cafe is a strange place. It was started by one girl (or so I've heard) at RPI a few years ago -- it's a little restaurant that only serves food Wednesdays from 11:30 to 1:30, and they use all natural and local ingredients (or so I've heard). Bean and I went there this morning, and although it was delicious, it way too filling for breakfast. But! Everything was scrumptious. We started with coffee.

Look at the cream cup!

There are only two menu choices each week; one meat and one vegetarian. Simon got chicken parmesan, and I got eggplant. For dessert there was a frosted sugar cookie shaped like a bunny (or, in our waiter's words, a molar).

This place is just such a wonderfully un-ordinary thing to have at RPI.