Baked another 100 or so

Baked another 100 or so gingerbread cookies last night. I used mom's recipe this time, and the dough was very different Hanka's recipe - much more dense and harder to roll out. Still the cookies turned out great and I'm looking forward to decorating them over the weekend.

Tonight's my company Christmas party which is, due to "cost saving measures" a potluck shindig at Sara's. We're bringing baked brie and, you guessed it, Christmas cookies. Jennifer is promising to bring something with sides to bake the brie in. The first time she did this dish at my house (a few years ago) the melted brie flowed down the back of my oven and it took me forever to clean it.

Speaking of melting stuff in the oven. When Molly Maid cleaned the house on Wednesday, they put away the cookie sheets and baking dishes into the oven (they always put stuff away in unexpected places). So I preheat the oven to 360F and eventually notice a plasticy smell. Well, one of Jennifer's favorite pans has a plastic lid that melted into an abstract, transparent sculpture. The pan was non-stick, so it could be salvaged, alas the lid is history.