1)
Cereal cookies: I only buy cereal when I get some tremendous deal. What that means, though, is that I sometimes buy cereal that the entire family ends up turning its collective nose at. Of course, I don't eat the stuff anymore, so I can finish it off. What I can do is make these cookies, which have always tasted great, particularly if I add chocolate chips.
2) My daughter's new Girl Scout troop: The Leader and the other girls have accepted and included her willingly.
3) The book,
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese. Paul picked it up for me at work. One thing about working for newspapers is that you oftentimes get free books. It happens less so than in the past, as the publishing industry is changing as quickly as the newspaper ones.
Reese, a a recently laid-off journalist and cook, goes through and figures out what kinds of foods are worth making from scratch -- from the perspective of cost, time and quality.
She has recipes for bacon and croissants, among other things. I had made croissants as a project when I was single, and they were amazing but incredibly time-intensive. I have no plans to raise chickens or cure my own meat, but I did enjoy reading about her adventures along those lines.
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