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Happy 2025- I hope this year is precedented and uneventful for everyone– although I already have a feeling that this won’t be the case.

New Year, New Cookies? Nope. Same cookies actually. This week I made two cookies I’ve made before- but only one that I’ve written about. Both are from Christina Tosi’s Milk Bar Life Cookbook. Her Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Rice Krispies- or Rice Bubbles here in OZ!) and The Greta Sugar Cookie Bars (with festive New Years Sprinkles!) My friend, Jinx, was back in Amsterdam and brought back more Van Stapele cookies for me…. Honestly, they’re so good. I need to both savour them and eat them before they go stale. The paradox of having something you truly love but don’t have often.

The Greta Sugar Cookie Bars (minus one piece)

In other exciting news, we FINALLY bought an air fryer- and we’ve used it nearly every day we’ve owned it so far. Mostly for french fries but I’m on the look out for air fryer recipes to try!

So yeah, 2025 will be the year of the air fryer and the cookie- not sure about cookies in the air fryer but I’m sure we’ll try it at some point!

Oh and we also made Sushi! Because sometimes we cook things that aren’t cookies and we really loved our trip to Japan last year !

So in 2015, The Runner and I tried to keep a record of everything that we had for dinner all year. We were diligent (mostly) in the recording, however we never actually DID anything with the information. We should have entered it into a database (or at least an excel spreadsheet) and analysed, rated, remembered or at least done something with the info. But we didn’t. So now, we have 12 Months of barely legible scrawl which once we decode it will be a record of what we ate in 2015. If/when I make time to put it all into excel and make sense of it.

However, it’s a new year and in 2016, we’re going to be more organised and do this properly. Every week, I’m going to post what we ate- where it came from, whether we ate out, and if we’d make it again. I’m sure patterns will start to emerge (we don’t eat a lot of fish at home) and it might get boring. (tacos again!) Whatever it works out to be, it’s going to be a time capsule for the year!

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