If you don’t compile your own cookies, are you even living?

Do you even compile your cookies, bro?

I use an interpreter. #!/bin/cookish

I had to buy star anise and I couldn’t buy just a tiny amount of it. Now I’m trying to figure out how to use it all within the next year or two. I think I found something. Oatmeal anise cookies. If I added a little dab of plum Ginger jam to the center of these things, I might be able to replace Pop-Tarts.

Cost per cookie? 6¢

Nice mise en place.

I had to buy star anise and I couldn’t buy just a tiny amount of it. Now I’m trying to figure out how to use it all within the next year or two. I think I found something. Oatmeal anise cookies. If I added a little dab of plum Ginger jam to the center of these things, I might be able to replace Pop-Tarts.

Cost per cookie? 6¢

This was a hit over the weekend!

My niece made the oatmeal cookies with star anise – recipe from oatmeal container. They were delicious; I understand why you want to replace the poptarts with cookies.

The ginger marmalade (from ginger candy and freshly grated ginger) didn’t go over well; they ended up in the ice cream that my SIL made along with chopped cinnamon and brown sugar poptarts and a pinch of anise.

My family and I have a weird relationship with poptarts: we eat it burn-your-mouth-hot from the toaster or break-a-tooth frozen, never as intended. We are a bunch of weirdos. My nephew really liked the flavor of star anise in desserts so he made a smoothie with it (poptarts, milk, pinch of anise, a scrape of cinnamon and nutmeg).

These oatmeal cookies just made our Halloween and Thanksgiving menu! They are now my niece’s Signature Cookies, lol.

Thank you so much for sharing your ideas!

I have to harvest my ginger soon because the temperature is going to get too cold for it to be out there. Which also means I need to find something to do with a lot of fresh ginger or I have to dry it out.

One problem I’ve had with these cookies is that they are very addictive. You’ll have one and then 20 minutes later you can still taste it and crave another one.

Ginger crop:

Wow, that ginger looks healthy… in a pot! Don’t forget to freeze some for tea and lugao (like congee).

I smell a “what to do with extra ginger” post and I have recipes, lol.

I’ll dry some and grind it. It will supply my switchel needs next summer. Maybe some Jamaican ginger beer / root drink. I’ll make fermented ginger ale out of some. I’ll bury some deep in the driest part of my yard and hope it survives in the spring. If I can find a good price on plums I’ll make some ginger plum jam and then see if I want to raise some meat ducks next year. I’ll make some ginger syrup for use in forced carbonated ginger ale. I will probably candy some of it.

I will never have too much ginger. But this is the first year I will have enough ginger to do the basics without breaking the bank.