Open House

My work had its yearly Christmas open house yesterday. Essentially, it is a day we open up our offices to the rest of the campus. We are located right at the edge of campus, so very rarely do others come down to visit. We get up on to campus a little more regularly, but we still don't see folks that often.

Part of our open house is to supply the campus with wonderful food. I supply the meat and cheeses tray (which I buy - I'm a little too lazy to try to slice all the cheese and meat myself - that, and I can't slice it nearly thin enough), and I usually bring chocolate chip cookies. I spent part of Saturday night making chocolate chip cookies. It was very nice, and of course, the cookie dough was very good as well.

I thought this year I'd try something a little more this year as well. I made ginger snaps. The internet is a wonderful tool; it works well as a cookbook too. So, I got the recipe. I bought fresh ginger, grated it in front of the Vikings game, and then finised making them during the Packers game. All in all, it was a successful Sunday, but the ginger snaps were wonderful, if I do say so myself. I found out that ginger snaps are my friend Dag's favorite cookie, too, so I'll probably be making them again in January sometime.

It's been a good couple of days. Today, I'm supposed to be off towards Turkey Valley High School, but there is a 2 hour late start due to fog. Ah, well. I'll be out of here in a couple of hours.